Ironically, I've seen a few more 'edited' Royal 5's, and Ilay always prevails. It's probobly the sheer effort you'd have to go to in order to make him not-Ilay (i.e. the Batman) what with the hair/wig and his massive features. He also has a fairly utilitarian expression (if that doesn't sound entirely wrong), so he looks confident, worried, dismissive... anything, depending on the context you put him in. A limitation of cartooning is that the subtler modes of facial expression and body language are almost impossible to 'code in' purely visually, for a variety of reasons. So if the First Governor's fizog wants to play ball, then so should the artist.
Also, if you hold the note up to light and look at the back, it looks like the Batman is thinking about Lord Ilay, in that nostalgic way comman to the more emotionally 2 tone Japanese cartoons of yore. I was happy with that. It made me happy.
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