Recently DC Comics announced that after the main series ends in July, Batman, Incorporated will get a One-Shot "Special" and today we got some... interesting news on one of the stories in it. Dan Didio and Ethan Van Sciver will be doing a story for the Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham creation, BAT-COW! (Yes, Batcow! Bat Cow!)
You heard me right, Bruce!
Dan Didio, writer of the story and co-publisher of DC Comics posted this on facebook,
"Happy to announce that Ethan Daniel Van Sciver and I will be doing the first Bat Cow solo story in the just announced Batman Incorporated Special coming this August! We plan to milk this for all its worth. :)." Personally, I think this is great news! Now excuse me while I sit and count down the days to this happening...
This wednesday Batman, Incorporated #10 hits the shelves, Bruce's had it pretty rough in the past few issues, his son; Damian Wayne, Robin; has died, he's become an outlaw in the city he's saved countless times, argued with his oldest friend, lost the trust of Commisioner Gordon and the crime-fighting organisation he's spent years building has gone underground and half of it's destroyed. So, yeah, he's probably gonna be a little bit ticked off.
Batman, obviously, wants to avenge his son and all his other falen allies, and he's going to be very, VERY desperate. Desperate enough to transform himself into a monster, perhaps, to get revenge on the evil mastermind who did all of this to him, the mother of his son, Talia al Ghul.
Well it seems that's the case judging by the gatefold cover of the issue, before you look at it, here's a bit of info you might want to know.
Leviathan, Talia's criminal organisation has been using the Man-bat serum, created by (you guessed it!) Man-Bat. It was used to tansform regular soldiers into deadly human/bat hybrids, obviously if this serum got into the hands of one of Leviathan's enemies it'd be pretty bad for them.
DC have started a new feature on their blog called "What's new in the New 52?", the second edition went up today and they teased something rather interesting. The Joker's Daughter.
The only text DC posted reads, "Something evil lurks under Gotham City and it wears the Joker's face"
The Joker's daughter design, drawn by Brett Booth.
The original Joker's Daughter was Duela Dent, the daughter of Harvey Dent, A.K.A Two-Face. She, however, took on the name of the "Joker's Daughter". Her origin then got a bit more confusing, she was then the Daughter of the Earth-3 version of the Joker, the Jester, a hero on that world. She's worked with the Teen Titans a few times and was pretty much a good guy, I think.
So, what do you think of this? And what's the Joker going to do without his face? I mean it's pretty important...
I'm pretty sure this will be in the main Batman book, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, who have pretty much taken charge of Joker in New 52, and have done a lot to do with what the city's really like, including how it was built and what's underneath it.
Well, if you're a little confused by the title, don't worry. You're not the only one.
Basically, the other day ABC Family put up a trailer for their showing of Batman Begins, in which they ruined Batman Begins. For everybody. Forever.
Yeah, you hear them right. "He fights for Family, and lives for love". Now, that wasn't a good trailer, they've sort of messed up the point of the film, and I'll never watch the film the same way again. But let's look at that statement for a moment. And yes, that's a que for an analysis.
So if you don't want to hear an analysis, well....
Oh, well, hear we go anyway.
"He fights for family"
So, I'm going to look at this, now. I think it might technically be true...
Thomas and Martha, the most important members of the Wayne family, to Bruce at least, I think. They were killed in front of Bruce, think we all know that, after they died, he started the path to being Batman, and fighting crime.
Dead family.
Fighting crime.
Fights for family?
Fights because of his family, pretty sure "Fights for family"... might actually work.
Also, in the comics, I can see Batman carrying on fighting because of the latest death in his family, Damian Wayne, his son.
So, yeah, he sort of Fights for family.
"He lives for love"
Okay, we all know Bruce Wayne's had his fair share of Girlfriend's but that's not what I'm focusing on. The love of the city, the love of his ( remaining ) family, the love I guess Thomas and Martha would be feeling for him, in whichever after-death state you believe in. I think that's what keeps him going, the love of the people he cares about. I think it's what keeps him alive.
So, maybe he "lives for love" a bit too. Just maybe
So, ABC family were... sort of right, I guess. I know they didn't mean any of it like that, but if you really pick it apart, it works.
But that trailer still ruins Batman Begins for me.
