Fans Demanding Comic Accurate Batman Movies Would Hate Them
The wildly successful release of The Batman has reopened a popular discussion amongst comic book fans. The phrase “most comic accurate” has been bandied about for many a superhero adaptation, with The Batmanbeing the latest film to be awarded this superlative by many fans and critics alike. But how true can that statement ever possibly be? After all, Batman is over eighty years old, and countless elements of his lore remain untouched by filmmakers.
The Silver Age of Batman comics, from roughly 1956 to 1970, produced some of the weirdest and wildest stories of the Caped Crusader’s history, even beyond the zaniness of the 1968 television series with Adam West. As time goes on, it becomes increasingly less likely that a live action Batman film will feature an inter-dimensional imp called Bat-Mite or an alien Batman from another planet. This is ultimately unsurprising, the more dark and cerebral Batman comics of the 80s and 90s remain many of his most iconic to this day, and the films that evoke those comics tend to be the most popular. But how accurate can an adaptation be when it simply eats around any parts the source material it may not like?
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Consider Batman R.I.P. by Grant Morrison and Tony Daniel, a comic that sought to somehow marry the absurdist elements of Batman’s past with his more gritty and nuanced present. The result is drug induced hallucinations and psychotic breaks explaining things like Bat-Mite and the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh. With Batman’s mind gone, a cameo from a giant multicolored behemoth called the “Rainbow Creature” suddenly seems a little more plausible. Batman R.I.P is faithful to Batman mythology in a way that is almost
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