Random Comic Book Thoughts

**mitchables** · 08-24-2010, 10:21 PM

i'm not as opposed to the idea of other people taking up the mantle of a previous hero - it's been kind of a dc staple for years (even silk spectre and nite owl in watchmen were successors to the title). i don't like it when its done ingloriously or inappropriately. but it's unrealistic to keep the same people in the same role for 70 years with no sense of aging or replacement because it makes the concept of time in comic books even more convoluted than it already is.

as far as bruce and dick are concerned, nobody in that universe earned a shot at being batman in bruce's absence more than dick. he reinvigorated the character. since pretty much identity crisis, batman hasn't been all that likeable a character. he's been paranoid, shut off from the league, control-obsesssed... he was off the deep end, man. grayson injected a sense of light and and freshness into the character, while damian provides the necessary wayne darkness. it's actually done really well.

08-24-2010, 10:21 PM	#11
mitchables bonjour Posts: 27,814	i'm not as opposed to the idea of other people taking up the mantle of a previous hero - it's been kind of a dc staple for years (even silk spectre and nite owl in watchmen were successors to the title). i don't like it when its done ingloriously or inappropriately. but it's unrealistic to keep the same people in the same role for 70 years with no sense of aging or replacement because it makes the concept of time in comic books even more convoluted than it already is. as far as bruce and dick are concerned, nobody in that universe earned a shot at being batman in bruce's absence more than dick. he reinvigorated the character. since pretty much identity crisis, batman hasn't been all that likeable a character. he's been paranoid, shut off from the league, control-obsesssed... he was off the deep end, man. grayson injected a sense of light and and freshness into the character, while damian provides the necessary wayne darkness. it's actually done really well.