Bruce Wayne Became a Criminal Before He Was Batman in New DC Origin
Warning: Contains spoilers forBatman: The Knight #2
The latest issue of Batman: The Knight reveals that before Bruce Wayne became the Caped Crusader, he moonlighted as a criminal for a brief time. Bruce Wayne has been known to be one of the greatest crimefighters and detectives in the history of fiction. With his keen deduction skills, he can track down criminals and his greatest adversaries to stop horrible things in Gotham before they happen. But in this new DC Comics origin story for Bruce's transition to Batman, Chip Zdarsky and Carmine di Giandomenico take a bold step and look at how the Dark Knight realizes that the best way to beat a criminal is to think like one.
Taking place after the death of his parents but before he first put on the cowl, Batman: The Knight #2 follows Wayne on an exodus to Paris as he tries to figure out what he can do to stop the growing crime threat in Gotham. He knows that he wants to do something about it, but he's not entirely sure if he knows how. He even ends up abandoning Alfred to go to Paris on his soul-searching journey, leaving without telling him where he is going. This story is truly aiming to tell the story of Bruce Wayne in-between the boy and the man, and it ends up going in a pretty unexpected direction when a Catwoman-esque burglar enters the fray.
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One night in Paris, Bruce encounters a cat burglar named Gray Shadow. While she manages to escape him with ease, she piques his interest and makes him want to learn how he can move like she does. After a tense meeting between them at a cafe, Shadow takes him on as a student, jokingly mentioning, "If you end up as good as I suspect you will
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