Gather around, one and all, for the bat-mantle has been passed, as bat mantles will. Zach Snyder has announced that the Batman in his as-of-yet unnamed Batman/Superman movie will be played by none other than Ben Affleck. The word is, Snyder was looking for someone to play an older, more grizzled Batman to Henry Cavill’s younger, more optimistic Superman. Either way, he is not the Batman we need, but he is the one we deserve …