It’s a classic frame tale, like Canterbury Tales or, closer to home, one of the very best episodes of Batman: The Animated series.Ĭomic Book Herald is reader-supported. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? is a series of vignettes told by Batman’s villains, each one illuminating some part of the Dark Knight only they knew. What’s Good The Writing Batman Sketch – Andy Kubert ), and ushers in the ending of two of DC’s longest-running titles ( Batman & Detective Comics). Like its predecessor, it comes before an important reboot (in this case, the major developments and cosmic expansion between Final Crisis, Blackest Night, and New Krypton ), the death of an iconic hero ( Batman: RIP. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? is, unabashedly, an attempt to recreate that prior miracle.
It’s a bold book that provides a kind of final statement on the hero’s whole ethos, and it’s still a magnificent example of how to say goodbye to not just heroes, but particular definitions of heroism. While this rings true of many other ideas, religious or otherwise, it particularly rings true for Batman, a character who has an undeniable malleability.Marks the “end” not for the hero, but more for Superman’s two on-going series and what they represented. It can take all kinds of shapes it can be perfected and it can be perverted. What Gaiman and Kubert eloquently show us is that Batman - an idea - has the capacity for immortality. In a delicate way, the creative duo explained that Batman is in a never-ending cycle of life and death, which he cannot escape. Gaiman and Kubert elegantly explained they're all valid, and they're all as true to canon as the original appearance of the Dark Knight in 1939's Detective Comics #27 by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. RELATED: Gaiman Eulogizes Cinamon Hadley, Visual Inspiration for Sandman's Deathīatman takes many forms, despite some fans claiming "their" version of Batman is the one true form. He hands the baby to his mother, she names him "Bruce." We get closer to the iconic image, the "Bat" symbol taking a new shape that of a doctor's hands, delivering a baby. We're left with an image of the Bat Signal, beaming in the sky.
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