Medicine Soldiers

[arbre_rieur]

Four pages from BATMAN INCORPORATED 7...



That night, Raven finally has enough and calls it quits.



A closer look at that sign, for the`curious:





By the time the two reach Man-of-Bats, he's been stabbed, but he's still alive.



As it turns out, Raven was wearing the bulletproof "ghost shirt" underneath, so he's fine, and Man-of-Bats survives, too.

Comments

[drmcninja]

Batman on a budget. I really, really, like that scene there. That just gets to me somehow.

[shadowpsykie]

what does it for me is Batman's genuine smile :D

[darkknightjrk]

And it works--back in The Black Glove, Bruce genuinely had a lot of respect for most of the Club of Heroes, even if he abandoned the meetings early on, and some of them, like Gladiator, became a bit corrupt.

[misterbug]

In a way, Morrison retooled a lot of the Club to represent aspects of Bruce's own personality - Centurion as the swashbuckling romantic, Gaucho as the death-defying Zorroesque adventurer.

Man-of-Bats is both a representation of Batman as a father - it's perhaps significant that this comes out right after the Reboot announcement that Dick will return as Nightwing - and also of Bruce's own father, Thomas Wayne, who was also a Doctor trying desperately to make a difference.

[darkknightjrk]

Yeah, I thought Bill and Raven's relationship was a lot like Bruce and Dick's when he was Raven's age, but I didn't think of the Bill/Thomas comparison. Nice one, man. :D

[sherkahn]

Bruce is smiling in AWE and RESPECT of what a determined man can do WITHOUT the funding or the secret identity. To protect the community.

Somewhere in his mind Bruce must be thinking if even HE could achieve the same and William Eagle has, if the roles were reversed.

That fanboy smile and appreciation made the entire comic book WORTH the price.