Batman #85 - "City of Bane, Conclusion"

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It goes back to Alan Moore’s famous book. He said, Bruce was the first second-dimensional comic book character. There’s sort of the first-dimensional comic book characters like Superman who have one motivation: “Save the world.” Bruce Wayne is a second-dimensional character in that there’s a reason he saves the world: His parents died. That’s what Stan Lee was famous for: He made a bunch of two-dimensional characters. What Moore said was, our responsibility is to make three-dimensional characters — characters who don’t move in one direction. They’re not motivated by one thing because life is so complicated. The reason why you do something, it has to do with how you were raised, it has to do with who you are in that moment, it has to do with just the random s— in your life. All that stuff is what makes a three-dimensional character. I feel like Flashpoint Batman looks at Batman and thinks he’s just this two-dimensional character: “You’re motivated by death. This will kill you.” -- Tom King

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Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren #2

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"These are the moments where the fate of the Force, the fate of the galaxy, and the balance of the Force, all these things are on the scales being weighed. And this book, if we do it right, should be building and building and building to a moment where Ben makes a choice and you understand why he does it and you realize he had no choice, even though he thinks he’s making one. That’s what the story’s supposed to be. That’s what happened to Anakin. If we do our job right, it will feel utterly inevitable and also utterly preventable, which is the tragedy of the whole story." -- Charles Soule

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Yondu #4

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Venom #22

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Stranger Things: Into the Fire #1

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The Immortal Hulk #28 - "The New World"

[laughing_tree]

This is one of the themes we've been exploring right from the start - the idea of anger as something that can be harnessed and used, and used for positive change. We've had periods of Hulk's history where Bruce has tried to use the Hulk to do good, but there was still that separation between them -- Bruce's desire to divorce himself from his own rage, to deny it, to lock it down. Now, by fully accepting his dissociative identity disorder and working closely with his alters, Bruce is arguably more complete and whole than he's been in a very long time. -- Al Ewing

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