althechi: (batman)
althechi ([personal profile] althechi) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily 2014-02-10 09:48 am (UTC)

Wow, I haven't liked Klaus Janson's art this much in a long time. Did he ink this himself?

The story contains a number of interesting conceits, and seems to be attempting to reconstruct (to an extent) the Batman of To Kill a Legend, with the ideas that Batman hasn't properly recalled his parent's death in years (a statement he pretty makes verbatim after his dream of their murders in that story) and that Bruce Wayne would become Batman because he was "meant to" - Batman prevents an alternate universe's Thomas and Martha from being killed, but the other Bruce Wayne is put on a track to becoming a different kind of Batman.

However, the execution is just a little odd - since this is the post-Crisis continuity, 18 years had passed between the deaths of the Waynes and Batman's debut, noting his still-vivid memories (it's this page, but not in these panels), so the continual emphasis on how 7 more years have eradicated the finer details of Bruce's parents, while not implausible, may not be as effective.

Beyond that, I approve of any story that gives Thomas Wayne a moustache. Having watched BTAS first, I always assumed that was the way it was meant to be and was sorely disappointed when I watched Batman Begins and he didn't have one.

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