Batman: Creature of the Night, Book One - "I Shall Become..."

[laughing_tree]

It's all tied up in a project I did called Superman: Secret Identity, which was a story about somebody named Clark Kent gaining the powers of Superman in the real world. I used that story as a way to explore the secret self we all have inside, that we only share with people in specific ways. It was a success and DC was interested in doing more. I told them that we could do a Batman project but it would be very different. -- Kurt Busiek

Comments

[lizard_of_aus]

How do you explain the flying, though?

[sadoeuphemist]

A) It's some dude on a hang glider (or a shadow, or the wind, or whatever) being blown up to mythic proportions by a child's imagination.

B) If we accept the premise that there's a supernatural component to the story, that there really is a flying bat-figure ghosting around and beating up bad guys, who's to say that it isn't the uncle who's got the powers instead of the kid?