Absolute Batman #1
Nov. 8th, 2024 06:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

"I wanted to do a story where it really is for my kids. Maybe not just yet, it's a little too violent and dark, but it's written for my kids. Batman always made me brave. Growing up in New York, I love the idea that he went up against nuclear war, like in The Dark Knight Returns. My anxieties were reflected in these books in the ’80s. And for him here, I want him to go up against things that feel unmovable, like giant civilians and systems that feel like you can't change them, so you just have to compromise, which is Alfred's point of view as a kind of mercenary coming to town. For Batman, though, he's this kid that does not believe that. He believes you go up and you bang your head against it over and over and over until you get it to change. So, it's a totally different take." -- Scott Snyder
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Thomas Wayne is Proud of His Son
Aug. 23rd, 2021 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Lots of good stuff in 'Infinite Frontier', from the return of the JSA, Alan Scott and Obsidian kicking ass together, Roy Harper looking for his daughter and a man with invisible poison skin, but here's some stuff from issue 4, where Thomas Wayne gets to regret being written by Tom King. Also, a sudden yet inevitable betrayal.
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ArkhaManiacs
Jan. 7th, 2021 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

"Joker looks at Bruce thinking, ‘Ahh, I could work with this.’ Bruce is so closed off, and he’s so fascinated by, ‘Why is Joker like that? Why is he walking with a smile? What’s going on in his world?’ And when Joker encounters Brucie he says, he pats him on the head, ‘Hello, Brucie,’ because he knows him already, and it’s kind of like that project where you’re trying to teach your kid how to read, or you’ve gotta open their mind so they can see what you see, until they figure out that code, and then the world expands, and that’s kind of what [Joker] does to Bruce." -- Art Baltazar
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"I’ve always been a massive Mister Freeze fan, because out of all the villains, he didn’t strike me as someone who wanted to be a villain.
So when I was putting together the White Knight story, I came up with this new backstory for Mister Freeze that was sort of based off of Baron Von Braun, who started the rocket program here in the U.S. after World War II." -- Sean Murphy
Warning for racism
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Batman: Damned #2
Feb. 15th, 2019 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

The next issue has yet to come out but it's been over a month so I'm posting a third from this one.
Warning for rape
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