SnowFlame Chapter 1 Page 51
on January 27, 2013 at 11:37 pmY’know, sometimes I feel like I’ve been kind of a jerk writing Batman for this comic. Maybe that’s because when I was in middle school/high school I would have reoccuring dreams where him and/or Bruce Wayne would give me life advice. Usually, it was pretty basic stuff like “don’t follow the crowd,” but the very last was “Don’t live like I did, always for revenge.” In the dream, he had built a machine (like Mr. Freeze’s suit) so that when he died he’d become a semi-tangible ghost so he could fight crime even in the afterlife, and was now regretting the decision.
So… Is Batman like my spirit-animal? Anyway, even if it may not seem so in the comic, I’ve always thought he’s just an amazing character.
Like I mentioned in the tweets, things get a likely crazy for the rest of the chapter, but please trust me, I have a plan!
Have a great week!:D
Edit: I’ll have to redraw Batman’s mask in the last panel. Originally, it was going to pop off of his face in surprise, and now its not there at all.>.>
Love the action and Batman’s confession about lying!
I think Oancitzen said it best:” A person with the bat as their totem is a person in spiritual limbo. A spritual dead end. Frank miller retired him,only for him to come back. Grant Morrison had him killed by a deity,only for him to keep being reborn throughout time. Always black,always the bat. In other words,Mr. Wayne,abandon the bat….or perish.”
When I watched that episode, I thought that he got his last point wrong : what’s more important is that he always comes back, always as the bat. So, in other words : Bruce Wayne is immortal, because of a direct effect of the symbol of the bat on the narrative.
Even when he perishes, he leaves a legacy. Batgirl, Nightwing, Batman Inc, Batman is a sort of legacy character that’s impossible to dissociate from the secret identity. (Also, he sometimes comes back from the dead to check on said legacy.) Maybe Batman is so established as the solitary, distant Dark Knight, that it makes little sense to pass on the costume; maybe the Bat always comes back; maybe he’s too narrow a concept that no one so far could pull off writing a new hero to pass on the costume. I mean as opposed to the Flash, who was first Jay Garrick, then Barry Allen, then Wally West, then Bart Allen : the Flash is the “fastest man alive” no matter who wears the red and gold, but Batman is Bruce Wayne (billionaire orphan greatest detective in the world) and Superman is Clark Kent (last son of Krypton for great justice) because there is no room in the costume’s character to fit some other personality, it’s too long-worn to fit.
Thinking about it, it may be possible to make it up. What does a Batman who’s not Bruce Wayne like? What makes the Batman inextricably Bruce Wayne? What would a new hero need to be Batman II like Wally West inherited the costume of Barry Allen?
And Batman and I have the exact same reaction to that statement.
this is awesome. i love it. good work, keep it up!
Snowflame’s only fear is that cocaine disappears forever.