young Bruce Wayne

[ratcreature]

So crazy person that I am, I am kind of trying to write a first draft of a comic Batverse overview for crack_van, because the Batverse really deserves to be pimped. A lot. So while I'm valiantly struggling to come up with ways not to make the character backgrounds and storyline descriptions ridiculously long, and possibly with footnotes *facepalms* -- lots

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[penknife]

So crazy person that I am, I am kind of trying to write a first draft of a comic Batverse overview for crack_van, because the Batverse really deserves to be pimped.

You are very, very brave. But I'm glad somebody's doing it; it's a big enough fandom to support monthly recs, I think -- it's just that the idea of having to do the overview makes people flee in horror.

[marag]

I agree with penknife, I'm thrilled someone's taking a stab at it. I did the Enterprise overview and had a brief thought of trying a Batverse one.

Once I'd woken up from the screaming nightmare...

Okay, seriously, if you do it, I promise I'll take on a month of recs :)

[thete1]

Yes, yes, YES. See, yeah. It can be so easy to get lost in the honestly mind-boggling things he does to his loved ones in the interest of The Mission, but in the end... it's always about that brutally hurt, scared, *brave* little boy who wants to make a difference. Who stops thinking of his own pain almost immediately, because the world's is more important. Bruce is just... *SIGH*

I love him. And this is a lot of the reason why.

[ratcreature]

In a way this is really the moment he becomes a hero, even if he isn't yet sure how he will do it. Because it's not about vengeance or even about finding his parents' killer and bringing him to justice, but about compassion and preventing others from being hurt like he was.

[liviapenn]

*nodnodnod* Have you read the Batman/Planetary crossover "Night on Earth?" Basically the plot (the Planetary characters are chasing this mentally ill guy who's cycling them through a different reality every couple minutes) is an excuse to have a bunch of different Batmans (Frank Miller, Adam West, current continuity, original version) in one comic

[thete1]

(Batman kneels down and takes his hands) "Do you remember how they made you feel safe?"

"Yes."

"Then you hold onto that. Because that's what we can do for other people. We keep the bad things from happening. Keep them from turning into people like us."

*wibbly eyes of DOOM*

God, must redouble my efforts to acquire this. *Man*. And yeah, dude, I totally wouldn't expect that from Ellis, as great as a lot of his work is. *sigh* That's... that's just the THING. The big THING. That makes episodes of JL like "Legends" and "Hereafter" so unremittingly cool and right and GOOD and *SIGH*

[iamza]

I'm reading the second volume of the Batman Archives right now. It's interesting (to me, anyway) to see how much the current day image of Batman has evolved from the way Bob Kane envisioned him back in the 1940's. In the old Detective Comics version, there's less of an emphasis on Batman's having trained himself to the peak of physical perfection, and Batman is more wise-cracker than Gotham's grim knight. Kane's original version seems a lot less driven, and a lot more physically vulnerable, than the current (Miller/Burton) version. (And, Batman + endless smiling/grins/jokes = wierd combination!) But even back then, Bruce Wayne, the playboy, went out of his way to help.

Don't know that I really have a point, except that I found it interesting to contrast old Batman with modern day Batman, and see what the current writers choose to emphasize from the original tale.

[skalja]

Wow. I like Bruce a whole lot more now. *trundles off to ponder things*

[ratcreature]

Yay! That's great, because people should like Bruce/Batman. He's an awesome character. =)

[skalja]

He is. It's just that usually, I appreciate his existence rather than liking him exactly - does that make any sense?

On the other hand, I do have a Bruce!icon. *uses it*