Post by Timothy on May 11, 2008 21:17:28 GMT -5
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From Comic Book Resources
As Robin says in "Batman" #675, "you don't just undergo a death and rebirth experience without consequences, do you?" And that link between Morrison's current "Batman" run and the events shown in "52," show remind us that what Morrison is doing here is showing us an emotionally unstable Batman. A Bruce Wayne who failed to purge his demons, and has been more and more incapable of separating the Bruce Wayne persona from the Batman persona. That's why Morrison has gone out of his way to show Bruce Wayne in James Bond mode, parachuting into danger. That's why he's hallucinating about Bat-Mite and alien landscapes.
Morrison's Batman is a madman, not in the fascist Frank Miller way so often replicated in the post-"Dark Knight Returns" days, but in the way of a man whose already damaged psyche becomes fractured beyond all reason. If Batman has lived through every single story ever presented in a Batman comic, as Morrison posits he has, how can he not go mad?
I think that after reading this review and gaining a better personal understanding of what's currently going on in the monthly comics, I feel that DC will indeed "kill" off Batman. In other words, Bruce Wayne will have to realize that he has to keep his lives separate and never blur the line between Bruce and Batman.
From Comic Book Resources
As Robin says in "Batman" #675, "you don't just undergo a death and rebirth experience without consequences, do you?" And that link between Morrison's current "Batman" run and the events shown in "52," show remind us that what Morrison is doing here is showing us an emotionally unstable Batman. A Bruce Wayne who failed to purge his demons, and has been more and more incapable of separating the Bruce Wayne persona from the Batman persona. That's why Morrison has gone out of his way to show Bruce Wayne in James Bond mode, parachuting into danger. That's why he's hallucinating about Bat-Mite and alien landscapes.
Morrison's Batman is a madman, not in the fascist Frank Miller way so often replicated in the post-"Dark Knight Returns" days, but in the way of a man whose already damaged psyche becomes fractured beyond all reason. If Batman has lived through every single story ever presented in a Batman comic, as Morrison posits he has, how can he not go mad?
I think that after reading this review and gaining a better personal understanding of what's currently going on in the monthly comics, I feel that DC will indeed "kill" off Batman. In other words, Bruce Wayne will have to realize that he has to keep his lives separate and never blur the line between Bruce and Batman.
