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.

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 killed Bruce Wayne and replaced him with his father, who is still alive, thus undermining the entire core motivation of Bruce Wayne's character in the first place. That was when I quit buying comics. I was checked out long before the woke shit really took off. I've been sitting on the sidelines for the past decade, laughing at these people as they burn their own house down.