I've been getting into comics lately. I just finished
catching up with Ultimate Spider-Man, and I figured the next series I should tackle is the one on everyone's "best comics of 2012" list: Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's reboot of
Batman, subtitled in its first collection as
The Court of Owls.
Despite its critical acclaim, I was hesitant to embrace Bruce Wayne. Much like how Spider-Man was the "it" guy in superhero movies during my formative years, Batman is the popular one these days due to Christopher Nolan's film trilogy. He's so popular I instinctively
don't want to like him, because I'm that sort of person.
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This is the cover of a real Batman issue.
You wouldn't see this in a Chris Nolan film. |
While I enjoyed
Batman Begins and
The Dark Knight, I thought they weren't the Greatest Movies of All Time like many other nerds have deemed them. And
The Dark Knight Rises was... mediocre at best. I understand Batman is a "serious" character, but at the end of the day he's still a guy in a bat costume punching bad guys. Nolan's trilogy takes itself too seriously, both in terms of tone and in terms of realism in its art direction.
