Artist Yanick Paquette is next up on atman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #3 - Pirate Batman.

Newsarama talk to Yanick about the issue and working with Grant Morrison on this historic series.

Newsarama: Yanick, how is it working with Grant Morrison again?

Yanick Paquette: It's wonderful. In a way, working on Return of Bruce Wayne almost felt like a Seven Soldiers reunion, because so many people who worked on that comic were part of this one. I think Cameron [Stewart] was even supposed to be part of Bruce Wayne but the deadlines conflicted and he couldn't do it.

And just after the Seven Soldiers stuff, I went to Marvel as an exclusive for four years. So for me, this is not only the Return of Bruce Wayne, it's also the personal return of me to DC.

They convinced me to come back to DC to work with Grant. Not on this, but on something else that has not happened yet, and I cannot mention it in any way. But the Return of Bruce Wayne has to be done before anything else.

Nrama: It's a big event, and it's such an iconic character, but it's also a little different because you're drawing a period piece in this issue. Is that part of what attracted you to it?

Paquette: Definitely. I was with my family at Disney when they asked me to do it. So I spent an extra ride in Pirates of the Caribbean, because I knew I was going to do a Batman pirate.

But yes, it's a big event, but it almost doesn't feel like a Batman book. When you draw Batman, you expect to draw city buildings and, well, Batman, and big capes and all the scenery of Gotham City.

And in the issue, Batman is there, but under a different form. So it's almost not like I was doing a Batman book, although it's describing something very intimate in the Batman mythology. That's the point of all of Return of Batman, exploring origins in a deeper fashion.

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(Source - Newsarama)