I like the idea of a younger Bruce Wayne before he was Batman. You could fill 10 seasons with his formative years learning how to be a detective, learning to fight, learning science, learning the criminal mind, figuring out how to be Batman. You wouldn't need to put him in the costume (always translates badly in film IMO) and you could still introduce him to early versions of a lot of other DC heroes and villains. I would love to see something like that.
I think this was a great take on Superman and especially Clark Kent.
I think whether or not this version of Superman is needed depends on how soon the 2nd volume comes out. If customers start sensing that this is an ongoing universe (rather than how it is percieved by some right now; a one-off) then I think it will become as important to readers as the Ultimate Universe's Spider-Man is for Marvel fans.
@EisforExtinction: Hmm. He's 36 and she's 23. Yeah 13 years is a bit of an age gap, but not unheard of. It's true that someone a bit older might make a better match though...
Personally, whether it be books, movies, comics, manga, or video games, I've never enjoyed stories that go back. I have too much interest in what happens next.
What if it's a cover up? What if there were super heroes in the middle ages but there were no news stations to cover it. No newspapers to advertise? What if a clash of the Super Heroes caused the dark ages and the Bishop struck the history of it from the records?
What if every age has had them but the telling of the tale turned them into legend? Hercules? Odysseus from the Odyssey? Dracula? Grimms Fairy tales? Conan? So many more. What sets the 20th century apart the most is radio and TV reporting. Air travel and automobiles shrunk the world.
How many thousands of years will pass before what we take for fact today is only a written shadow on the wall of a cave?
Great start to the show. I can't believe how gory it was considering it is a normal TV station. Props to them for being brave enough to do it. This show is truly boundary pushing. I hope the other TV stations are taking note.
If Batman doesn't change, then it's impossible, if only because a good portion of those crimes are committed during the day. Also, the scale of random crime in top ranked cities is just too large to stop on an individual basis. And his approach does not remove the impetus for crime (even if you tear apart organized crime at the joints it doesn't stop the grunts who hired themselves out in the first place from finding an individual substitute). On the other hand, if Batman is willing to legally employ Brother Eye type technology to enhance law enforcement and to start addressing the impetus for crime as opposed to the symptom of it, a person with the wealth, power, and resources of Bruce Wayne could make a dent over decades which would essentially remove the perception of pervasive violent crime from Gotham. The issue is whether that's too far outside Batman's character and methods and if going that far does he cease to be Batman at all? "
It is outside his nature. He is driven to act, but more specifically he is driven to act physically, personally. He was rendered impotent once and now must wrap his hands around the throat of the beast that wounded him or he can't know peace. He has no problems enlisting allies, but only if they serve his cause, using his methods, so he can have the satisfaction of knowing that even if it's not his own hands scraping the streets clean, they are hands directly endorsed by him in the minds of the criminals.
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