"Whereas in the comics, Bruce Wayne will forever be tormented by the death of his parents to fuel his war on crime."
Morrison's run (up until the New 52 reboot) allowed Bruce to get over his parents death, and he was just fighting crime because he's the best at it. So being forever tormented is just what writers stick to because they don't know what else to do with the character. There are other options.
Batman Begins was a fantastically crafted start, and things steadily went downhill from there. The following two films were ponderous, overlong and in love with their own internal storytelling machinery—almost all of which interfered with actual human interaction, motivations etc. I almost walked out of TDKR out of sheer boredom. Nolan fell victim to the same plague that hit George Lucas in the prequels: he expected us to believe his stories were epic based on an a priori sense of self-importance in the source material, and then makes us sit through drivel. Oh look! A child solemnly sings the National Anthem while a football field collapses. How symbolic. Pity that it isn't backed up by actual human drama.
If the League of Shadows simply wanted to destroy Gotham, why make us sit through months of overdrawn theatrics and simply push the button right away. Oh right, because Nolan had a capital-S Story to tell.
These comments are hilarious. One of you mentioned Sara as a 'hater'... really? Look, the book may be cool to some of you but you have to admit it could stand to use some improvement. Serious book or not, this book is flawed to a fault. Judd has been hit or miss in his comics career (more of the latter imo). Overall having a female writer as the voice of a female character is a no brainer. Even though I'm hearing that she supposedly sucks over at Green Arrow... none the less, Judd sucks in a few books so...
I have a cool idea to pitch to DC that can take Ms. Kyle to heights she's never seen before.
why not just make jla game instead of revolving around batman games? oh well
Because Batman is the most profitable and recognizable hero of this generation (that's not on a team) and DC/WB is using that as a 'gateway drug' so to speak.
I'll admit though that after this interview I'm thoroughly looking forward to reading this. "None of them have really taken on the Joker in this way." Well damn.
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