This chapter interrogates comics' dalliance not merely with the law, but with legal theory, across three archetypal axes, predicated on fundamental assumptions about the enforcers' relationship with the forces of law in their respective societies. The first one is Superman, the external, unauthorised but unambiguous saviour. Second, Dredd, a judge profoundly embedded within the juridical institution, epitomising the values and modes of adjudication and punishment of his time. And third, Batman, a species of dark judge defined by its freedom to engage in heterodox actions without formal sanction. While none stands truly apart from legitimate authority, their relationships with authority lie in a contended, and far from orthodox, jurisprudential landscape. The outcome is a radical experimentation of what law and justice, and their protectors, could become, helping to renew the usual coordinates of our jurisprudential and law and humanities debates.