Scott Snyder Plans Long-Term Changes for Batman

Whether or not you like his approach to Batman, Scott Snyder’s run on the Bat-books have been wildly popular and has changed the direction of The Caped Crusader in a lot of ways. Turns out, he ain’t done yet.

After the Earth-Prime shaking Convergence, Snyder plans a new ‘status quo’ for the foreseeable future.

"This story [Endgame] is transformative. And the only way to stay on the book, I feel like, as much as I was like, “I’m going to do some small stories with Bluebird and Batman and Julia.” That would be great. That would. But then I think of something like this and I’m like, if I don’t do that…. it’s an idea that I promise hasn’t been done in 75 years of Batman. And you think of it, and I’m like, that speaks to where I am! If I don’t do it, I feel like, I’m going to regret it.Either it’s a jump-the-shark moment, or it’s a great moment. I really don’t know. It could be the worst idea or the best idea I’ve had. I have no clue.Bottom line is, I couldn’t be more excited to try it, because it hasn’t been done, and it’s personal. It speaks to me. And Greg is 100 percent behind it. So we’re all ready to go, and excited.So “Endgame” really is a goodbye and a hello. It really is sort of like saying goodbye to a lot of things that — really, everything we’ve done on Batman and all of that.And then where we land in June is sort of like, “Whoa! What?”"

My favorite comments he made recently was about the eternal dance between Batman and The Joker that is culminating in Endgame. He’s set up an interesting take on how the Joker reinvents himself – like Grant Morrison – but is adamant that it isn’t like anyone else’s.

"And also, I know these characters have these huge legacies, but you have to write them like you made them up. Your versions of them are yours. And for me, this really is the last time they fight. I don’t want to say “never,” because I don’t want to be that guy who comes back and does something he said he’d never do. But I don’t foresee myself ever writing the Joker and Batman together again as the Batman and Joker.“Endgame,” for me, was meant to be both goodbye and also Batman wrestling with the idea of whether or not his mortality is something to be afraid of, at the end of the day.…And the story that I thought of for after this — it was like, wait a minute. If I do that, it’s exactly where I am emotionally, meaning I kind of thought I was done, but then I have, like, you know what? If I did that, it would give me a whole crazy lease, and it would give me characters that are in a different place in their lives, where I am, and it would really… I know I could do it.It’s easily — it could be the dumbest thing I’ve ever thought of, ever. Or it could be the best thing. I have no idea.I really don’t know. I mean, everybody at DC is really excited about it now, luckily, and I’m very excited.But I always have to be, like, “hear me out” before I tell them where we’re going with it.And it’s not Joker becomes Batman. I’m not going to rip off Dan [Slott] with Superior Spider-Man. It’s not that.But it’s a very high level of crazy."

No matter how it pans out, at least he truly wants to try something new.