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Newsarama: Marc, is this something you just wrote, or did you write this a while ago?
Marc Guggenheim: This is something I wrote a very long time ago. This is my third comic book story I ever wrote. I like to say it's for all my readers who think my older stuff is better.
Nrama: Was this written before you did The Flash?
Guggenheim: Yeah, this was written when I was on a show called Injustice, and it was written right after my Aquaman two-parter had been published. Believe it or not, I have a longer gestating project for Marvel, a Punisher story, that was actually written before Batman Confidential. But this one has been there awhile. I was teasing Mike Carlin for the longest time that if he didn't publish it this year, I was going to re-title it Teen Titans: Games.
Nrama: And the solicitation says this is a younger, more "maverick" Batman?
Guggenheim: Yeah. Back when I wrote the story, Batman Confidential was literally starting publication. And this is one of the very first arcs commissioned for the book. The mission statement for the book was stories from Batman's seminal moments.
I had always been intrigued by the notion of why a character like Batman joins the Justice League.
I'm of the opinion that, if you didn't have Batman being such a big commercial success, he wouldn't be a member of the Justice League. He's on that team because of marketing. But his nature is to be a loner. He's not the type to join a team.
So I get a lot of ideas from having a question like that and trying to answer it. So I tried to come up with a story that would help me explain to myself why Batman would join a team of superheroes.
I don't want to spoil the answer too much, but it struck me that the explanation would have something to do with the fact that there would be things that even Batman alone couldn't fight, couldn't stop. So I came up with a story that basically put Batman in conflict with a character that he couldn't beat by himself.
One of the other things that evolved as I wrote this story was, well, why does Batman even dress up in a costume? Because the truth of the matter is, yes, we know that he's taken on this mission to strike terror into the hearts of criminals, but there are other ways of doing that without a chest symbol, or the earlier iterations of his costume, which were much more superhero in nature. What are the origins of that?
So this story tries to provide insight into why Batman has so many superhero trappings -- the costume, the membership in a super team, and things of that nature.
It was fun to do. To me, it was a fun question to explore.
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