GKO: MADHOUSE
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Newsarama: Last time we talked, you revealed that Detective Comics will have a crime story focus and will be based in Gotham. But we didn't know very many details about what would happen after Bruce returned. Does his return play a role in your run on Detective Comics?
Scott Snyder: You know, it does play a role in the book. The basis for this story is that Dick Grayson has been given Bruce's blessing to be the Batman of Gotham. So it all extends from that.
Originally, and particularly as he suspected Bruce was alive, he was playing Batman as role for a certain period of time. And he even says there is a feeling of wearing a shroud.
But now Bruce is back and has given him the OK to be Batman. And so our whole story is really based on this idea of Dick Grayson's trial by fire.
Nrama: How does that "trial by fire" for Dick Grayson begin in the first story arc?
Snyder: Our story is called "The Black Mirror" because the idea we're playing with is, what if Gotham is kind of a dark, funhouse mirror for whoever takes on the mantle of the Bat? Bruce's enemies are such an extension of his own psychology, you know? The Joker being who he'd become if he broke his rule and fell into madness, and Two-Face being so emblematic of the duality of his life. It's the idea that Gotham, in some way, throws your worst nightmares back at you if you take on the mantle of the bat.
So the idea is, now that Dick Grayson has been given that mantle officially, what is Gotham going to change itself into all around him? So he's going to be facing new villains. We're not really dealing with supervillains, but we're dealing with the new faces of street crime and the new faces of terror. Not terror like terrorism, but terror like madmen and murderers — villains who will challenge him on every level.
Nrama: Can you reveal anything about these new villains that Dick is dealing with? Or are they designed to be surprises?
Snyder: I think they're going to be surprises. The person who will cause the most ripples, in terms of continuity, is a character who comes back to cause trouble for Jim Gordon, in the back-up. But Dick will also be dealing with some other people from the past and new characters.
We want you to meet this new Gotham that's being born right around Dick Grayson as he takes on the mantle.
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