In a city smothered in crime and injustice, there can only be one hero to protect Gotham from itself.

Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is Gotham’s white knight. He is strong and fair - the best defense attorney Gotham has ever had. He also happens to be dating the lovely Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, replacing Katie Holmes) who is billionaire Bruce Wayne’s ex-girlfriend.

No doubt, Wayne (Christian Bale) is jealous, but he has no time for petty emotions in his line of work. Since becoming Batman, he’s been busy fighting crime and corruption in Gotham.

On the opposite end of the spectrum from Dent, there is a terrible villain lurking the dark streets of Gotham. The mob and the crime lords think him to be a joke. But that’s just it - he’s not a joke, he’s the joke.

Joker (Heath Ledger) is his name and making mayhem is his game. Joker makes bizarre jokes, kills, steals and blows things up. He does this not because he’s crazy but because he wants nothing but pure chaos.

As Batman and Joker face off, it’s the ultimate battle between good and evil. The question is: who will win?

And what of Harvey Dent? Will he become a villain like those he sought to put in jail?

“The Dark Knight” is by far the best DC Comics movie ever made. It is much better than “Batman Begins,” although that was good, too. “The Dark Knight” has everything a comic book movie needs: action, danger, comedy and romance.

During a panel at the New York Comic Convention today, Marvel Comics announced that they will be working with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer Orson Scott Card to adapt two of his most acclaimed novels, Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow, into comic books later this year.

Ender’s Game, a cult-favorite novel about a child prodigy named Ender recruited to help fight an alien army, and Ender’s Shadow, a concurrent book focused on another young soldier, will launch as separate comics in late 2008, with the first Ender’s Game collection due out in summer 2009.

Like Marvel’s other literary crossovers, the Ender’s Game comics aim not only to woo new readers into comic stores, but also to continue the push of graphic novels and trade paperback collections into traditional bookstores and libraries where they can reach a more mainstream audience.

Card, who also currently scripts the Ultimate Iron Man superhero comic with Marvel, says he was eager to pursue a comic book adaptation, but that the rights were previously bound up in film deal for the two novels, which were optioned by Warner Brothers, the parent company of DC Comics.

“The moment I got the comic book and game rights extracted from the movie option deal, I let Marvel and other [publishers] know about the availability,” says Card. “I truly was open-minded about who would end up doing the books, [but] Marvel got there first, with a terrific, ambitious plan for Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow.”