Ok so to begin aside from the most recent annual I've read every Snyder issue of Batman and throughout his entire run he keeps implying that there is more to Harper's mother than she knows. As far as I can remember just focusing specifically on Batman. Issues 12 and 18 were really Harper-centric so question number one is what do you think Harper's significance is? Do you think Mother from Eternal has something to do with her directly or do you think Snyder will ever fully address why she's so "important"?
For Duke Thomas we saw that Bruce rescued Duke during Zero Year and that in Endgame they seem to be on good terms. With the We are Robin series it looks like the future from the Batman and Robin Futures End issue is slowly becoming a reality but I can't help but feel that Bruce and Duke need to have an info dump conversation sometime soon. Full disclosure I haven't read We are Robin personally but keep up with reviews. I'm still a little bit on the fence about it to be honest.
It's been argued that Batman's rogue gallery are reflections of his own psyche and that Snyder considers Mr.Bloom to be the problem/evil that grows through the cracks but as readers do you think that Bloom will have a lasting place in the rogues gallery? I loved the concept of the Court of owls initially but during the Talon series and finding that that they have further reach than Just Gotham and now recently with the revelation that there is a Parliament of Owls has kind of killed their wow factor for me.
Finally where do you think the Bat books will be heading in the next two years or so barring any new titles being released? After the end of Batman and Robin Eternal We'll have: Harper Row, Duke Thomas, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain and Jean-Paul Valley five "New" Characters so to speak. I said it before in a previous post I like Snyder but I feel that his policy of always wanting to tell the best stories possible while understandable means that I normally want to have a breather between major stories like Zero year or Endgame. I would have been completely satisfied if Zero year was just his Joker origin story because to be honest by the middle of Dark City I was a bit bored. I loved his two-part Clayface Story looking back some of the best batman stories have only been 2-3 issues. I just feel that Snyder while talented never lands his endings "Just Right" and never really seeds or builds up or earns his stories so to speak it's just epic after epic which like I said above can be exhausting. Going back to the "New" Characters aside from their appearances in Catwoman and We are Robin respectively do you think that Duke and Stephanie and going further Jean, Cass and Harper will get the character development the deserve? My biggest fear story-telling wise is that Snyder will leave before Harper's parentage is addressed and that the rest will just be used barely or not at all. Sorry for writing a book but seriously any long thought out responses for this?
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