DC's new Batman isn't what fans are expecting at all.
‘s fresh new take on Bruce Wayne would be fundamentally different than what fans were used to, having grown up in the working class instead of among the wealthy.#1 largely concerns the present-day status quo of Bruce, a civil engineer who decides to moonlight as a vigilante to take down a dangerous cartel in Gotham City. Throughout the issue, readers are shown scenes of a young Bruce visiting the Gotham Zoo on a class field trip alongside his father, schoolteacher Thomas Wayne.
“The idea is to do a new Batman for today, and the challenge is when, like, I’m a fan and I’m so beholden to the nostalgia and the 80-plus years of comics behind it that I didn’t want to, I wanted it to still be Batman, in a sense,” Dragotta toldin a recent interview. “So, like, you don’t mess with the silhouette. You don’t mess with the core of who Batman is. The ears, the cowl, the symbol on the chest, and then within that, then you mess with it.
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