GKO: MADHOUSE
Here you will find our rambalings on all area's of Batman, interviews and speical features!
Comic Book Resources have posted a really neat interview with Dan Didio while it only has one question about Batman, the whole interview is worth a read.
Speaking of characters who are a bit away from their core conceit, we've got Batman. Someone on staff pointed out to me that there are already multiple Green Lanterns in the DCU and multiple Flashes. With Dick proving so popular, could we get to the point in the future where even if Bruce came back, there could be two Batmen?
There were two Batmen when we had a couple of worlds going at the same time. And that, honestly, is one of the cruxes of the storylines that will be playing out in 2010. Everybody has their opinions on it, and there are going to different ways we're attempting to explore and build the franchise. There's a lot of ground we're covering that we haven't explored with Dick Grayson as a character yet that we want to get to. There's a lot of excitement there. We didn't want to get away from that story too quickly. We know there's a lot of fun to be had with Bruce Wayne as well, but I think we really want to enjoy Dick Grayson in that costume as much as possible.
The fun thing about Dick Grayson for me is...Hey! I got to kill Nightwing without actually doing it! [Laughs] No, the fun part about Dick Grayson as Batman is that the germ of the idea came from the fans themselves. It came from the concept of the near-miss death of Nightwing. When there was such a fan outcry about Nightwing possibly dying, the question went back to them immediately: why? Why did everybody care all of the sudden? Why was everybody excited? What I found was that a lot of people really embraced him as a character because they watched him grow up with them. He was one of the few characters that actually grew up. My fear was that Dick Grayson was going to get older than Bruce Wayne at some point, but the reality was that Dick Grayson was aging with the fans, and they felt emotionally invested in him as he matured from Robin to Nightwing. That's why they wanted him around. If that was the case, then the most logical step in this maturation process was for him to take on the Batman role. That wasn't done in [the late '90s story] "Prodigal." That was quick in and out. We wanted to really explore this theme and take the time to show Dick and what he was really like as Batman.
And Grant [Morrison] came up with the really wonderful twist which really solidified the whole idea, which was making Damian the new Robin. It flipped the paradigm. He made the Robin the grim, gritty little character and Batman the lighthearted character. So Dick Grayson didn't change at all by putting on the costume, which I think is wonderful, and we still got the same dynamic we had before in a Batman and Robin team.
Read the whole interview here.
(Source: CBR)
There were two Batmen when we had a couple of worlds going at the same time. And that, honestly, is one of the cruxes of the storylines that will be playing out in 2010. Everybody has their opinions on it, and there are going to different ways we're attempting to explore and build the franchise. There's a lot of ground we're covering that we haven't explored with Dick Grayson as a character yet that we want to get to. There's a lot of excitement there. We didn't want to get away from that story too quickly. We know there's a lot of fun to be had with Bruce Wayne as well, but I think we really want to enjoy Dick Grayson in that costume as much as possible.
The fun thing about Dick Grayson for me is...Hey! I got to kill Nightwing without actually doing it! [Laughs] No, the fun part about Dick Grayson as Batman is that the germ of the idea came from the fans themselves. It came from the concept of the near-miss death of Nightwing. When there was such a fan outcry about Nightwing possibly dying, the question went back to them immediately: why? Why did everybody care all of the sudden? Why was everybody excited? What I found was that a lot of people really embraced him as a character because they watched him grow up with them. He was one of the few characters that actually grew up. My fear was that Dick Grayson was going to get older than Bruce Wayne at some point, but the reality was that Dick Grayson was aging with the fans, and they felt emotionally invested in him as he matured from Robin to Nightwing. That's why they wanted him around. If that was the case, then the most logical step in this maturation process was for him to take on the Batman role. That wasn't done in [the late '90s story] "Prodigal." That was quick in and out. We wanted to really explore this theme and take the time to show Dick and what he was really like as Batman.
And Grant [Morrison] came up with the really wonderful twist which really solidified the whole idea, which was making Damian the new Robin. It flipped the paradigm. He made the Robin the grim, gritty little character and Batman the lighthearted character. So Dick Grayson didn't change at all by putting on the costume, which I think is wonderful, and we still got the same dynamic we had before in a Batman and Robin team.
Read the whole interview here.
(Source: CBR)
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