Detective Comics #859

[gargoylekitty]

We see Kate as she goes to and gets booted from West Point. After telling her father he's all 'okay. what now?' So she goes around just living a bit, meets Renee, has a fight with Renee, and...



I know, I know. We've seen the whole first Batman encounter/moment before, though this made me smile(and holy fuck, is that art pretty right there).

Also, don't take my summary as anything, go read it!

Comments

[mad]

Right. But theres generally an inconsistency in how those stories get re-told. Huntress's hasn't been re-told or summarized enough to have fallen into it too much, but with Babs and Cass, it's always "she was inspired by Batman", when really it's much more than that, as it is with Kate.

Whereas with Bruce, it's almost always "his parents are dead" and not "a bat fell through his window and it scared him" or whatever.

I am likely totally jumping the gun here with pessimism, but in re-telling this origin story, future writers might just see this as "has tragedy in past, saw Batman and was inspired", making Batman seem like the more significant motivator in the story, rather than someone demonstrating a way to do things.

[gargoylekitty]

I definitely agree that the habit of later writers giving Batman more of a hand in things takes away from the story as a whole. But the acknowledgment/presence of some kind of Batfigure is rather unavoidable when they're going to be wearing the symbol(unless you have a ton of bats flying around Gotham looking for places to show up and inspire costume design... and with that I'm suddenly desiring a retelling of Batman's origin from the bat's point of view).

Bat: My parents ran into a window and died. On that night I vowed to dedicate my life to destroying all windows to make sure it doesn't happen to another bat. Occasionally, the windows are open and thus unstoppable, in which case I fly into the house and try to scare the people inside for using them. I did this once and the guy started dressing like me and smashing through windows. My legacy is a mighty one.