Making Batman Poorer Could Be A Great Idea
So as you may or may not already know there are many changes coming to Batman comics in the near future, and one of the changes coming is Bruce Wayne losing his family home and some of his great fortune. According to Evan Narcisse of Kotaku.com this could be one of the most interesting things to happen to our beloved Dark Knight in several years. Check out what he had to say:
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"It’s always been a touchy line of critique that observes that Batman is a rich guy beating up poor people. A smattering of stories have tried to touch on the incongruity and unfairness of this dynamic but what this change in circumstance gives Bat-creators is a chance to go at the class divide in Gotham in a sustained way.It also opens up a fresher vector for writers and artists to humanize Batman. He seems a lot less unknowable and relatable when he doesn’t sleep in a big ol’ house. Crystal’s art goes a long way to making Batman feel more like a real person. His energetically scratchy linework renders a Batman with more human-sized proportions and the art on display here seems to thrive in showing the imperfections of the people, places and things that the Dark Knight touches.Will Batman ever need to take a payday loan to fill up the Batmobile? Probably not. But this moment is a chance to bring down the modern-day ‘BatGod’ iteration of the character, so called because he’s often presented as near-omniscient and almost infallible."
Read the full article, written by Evan Narcisse, on Kotaku.com, here. I’m not sure how I feel about this change, while I agree that bringing Batman closer to the people he fights, and the people he protects, on an economic level is probably a good thing, I am one of the fans that worships our modern day ‘BatGod’ iteration of the character, so I don’t really want him to go away.
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