I grew up with Batman: The Animated Series, which first aired when I was really little, and that's what got me into comic books in the first place. I've always been more of a DC fan for that reason, and I've always seen Batman, especially, as separate from the rest of the superhero genre
If DC had never bought it, Batman and the Bat Family could have survived all these years as a standalone, a successful own-world comic like the Phantom or TWD. Its whole atmosphere, the evocation of Film Noir and the detective-genre approach, has always made it better in terms of narrative and storyline, and I agree that the character of Bruce Wayne is fascinating. Not just him though, but a lot of the characters around him, too. Alfred, Jim Gordon, even a couple of the Robins.
And then, in the New 52, they made Thomas Wayne Batman instead. Alternate timeline, but it ruined it for me. Flashpoint pissed me off for that reason more than any other. That was when I stopped buying new comics. I checked out long before the woke shit really took off, and I've been sitting on the sidelines for the past decade laughing at these people as they burn their own house down.
Grant Morrison's RIP run was the end of it for me. It was already dying but that, and Neil Gaiman's Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader were the best way to put the story to a close.
Perhaps it will start up again, but I don't think that will be anytime soon.
I grew up with Batman: The Animated Series, which first aired when I was really little, and that's what got me into comic books in the first place. I've always been more of a DC fan for that reason, and I've always seen Batman, especially, as separate from the rest of the superhero genre
If DC had never bought it, Batman and the Bat Family could have survived all these years as a standalone, a successful own-world comic like the Phantom or TWD. Its whole atmosphere, the evocation of Film Noir and the detective-genre approach, has always made it better in terms of narrative and storyline, and I agree that the character of Bruce Wayne is fascinating. Not just him though, but a lot of the characters around him, too. Alfred, Jim Gordon, even a couple of the Robins.
And then, in the New 52, they made Thomas Wayne Batman instead. Alternate timeline, but it ruined it for me. Flashpoint pissed me off for that reason more than any other. That was when I stopped buying new comics. I checked out long before the woke shit really took off, and I've been sitting on the sidelines for the past decade laughing at these people as they burn their own house down.
Grant Morrison's RIP run was the end of it for me. It was already dying but that, and Neil Gaiman's Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader were the best way to put the story to a close.
Perhaps it will start up again, but I don't think that will be anytime soon.
Cartoons for a decade and then we'll see.