Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic features a superhero (resembling Batman) confronting a criminal, with a bystander (an older woman, possibly representing ordinary citizens or political philosophy) intervening. The bystander tells the hero "Not so fast, crook!" and questions the hero's right to use violence. She explains the social contract theory: "We grant the state a monopoly on violence because when individuals take justice into their own hands, more wrongs are done." The superhero points out that the villain has been "fighting the police for years," essentially arguing that official channels have failed. The bystander's response — suggesting that maybe the solution is to work within the system rather than becoming a vigilante — culminates in the final panel where things escalate anyway. The comic satirizes the tension between rule-of-law philosophy and the vigilante justice glorified in superhero stories, pointing out that Batman-style heroism fundamentally conflicts with the social contract.