GKO: MADHOUSE
Here you will find our rambalings on all area's of Batman, interviews and speical features!
What's the one thing you love the most about Batman?
Paul Dini: The weird mixture of innovation and consistency. The more you change Batman and his world, the more they remain the same.
Brian Azzarello: That he's a tragic character. He's comics' Hamlet.
Andy Kubert: Tough question, since there isn’t just "one" thing that I love about the character. Artistically, what attracts me is the costume and cape and the brooding nature of not only Batman but the whole Batman mythos. The cape and costume are so iconic, yet you can exaggerate it as much as you want; hide it in shadows and twist the cape around and have it go every which-way but yet it still comes across as Batman.
The rogues’ gallery is also a lot of fun. My favorite to draw is the Joker, and I got to draw a few more (Catwoman, Penguin, etc...) in Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader. I had a great time with that! Gotham City itself is a great character, and another one that isn’t set in standard ways as in drawing a realistic city. You can exaggerate it and stretch it and keep on adding things and it still comes across as Gotham.
The other thing about Batman is the opportunity to be a part of something that I grew up with as a kid that was a part of my life, not only watching the television show and cartoons, but reading the comics. I feel very lucky that I get to be a part of Batman history in my "older" years.
Denny O'Neill: He represents human perfectibility, at least in some areas, and the human characteristic of making lemonade from lemons. Maybe more importantly, he’s a great vehicle for storytelling.
Jeph Loeb: How damaged he is. He made a promise on the grave of his parents to rid the city of the evil that took their lives. No matter what he does, he can never fulfill that promise. Great character stuff.
David Finch: I love that Batman knows who he is, and what he wants. He's very black and white. All of us have to compromise sometimes, so it's very cathartic to read about a character who never ever has.
Greg Rucka: That he is truly and absolutely a tragic figure — every night, the same mission, the same goal: To keep what happened to him from ever happening to anyone else, ever. Every. Single. Night.
And every single night, he fails, because he cannot be everywhere at once. Save a life here, someone dies over there.
And yet, every single night, he'll do it again. Because each life matters.
Pure pathos, that. Pure heroism.
Judd Winick: Beyond the fractured psyche, beyond the massive opera that his story has always been, beyond the fact he's a character that steeped so deeply in realism and tragedy... I love the bit when he's talking to Commissioner Gordon and vanishes mid-sentence. I have always loved that best of all.
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