The one thing every great Batman writer agrees on is that the DC hero is versatile. “You can do the comedy Batman,” Grant Morrison said in 2013, “You can do the camp Batman. You can do the super-serious, dark, existential Batman. You can do the adventure Batman. You can do the detective Batman. You can do the street crime Batman. You can do the fantasy Batman. You can do the superhero Batman. The character bends and is able to do it all.”
And if Batman works in any kind of story, there must be a Batman story for every person. As Polygon’s Batman expert, I wanted to prove the theory.
Six Polygon staffers volunteered to serve as test subjects by telling me what they, personally, would like to see come to the fore in a Batman story. From those questions, I have crafted seven bespoke bat-recommendations.
Maybe there’s even a book in here … for you.
Tasha Robinson: OK, Susana, I admit I’m mostly a sucker for an iconic creature-of-the-night Batman who barely ever seems to pry himself out of the costume, and who seems to represent some primal aspect of Gotham more than actually being a man. I’m thinking of things like Grant Morrison’s Arkham Asylum here, or Scott Snyder’s Court of Owls arc, or Batman on Young Justice, where he just hovers in the background being inscrutable and the Ultimate Adult in a show mostly about younger heroes figuring themselves out.
But there’s so much of that out there, and it seems to be the mode he operates in throughout the biggest and most popular comics stories, as well as in a lot of the movies, including The Batman. I’d like you to point me to a comics arc that’s much more interested in the human side of Bruce Wayne — especially if it isn’t primarily a romantic story, because I just don’t
Read more on polygon.com