>>108950403Actually, I'm neither here nor there on "I Am Suicide." I think it's thematically important to what King is doing, but I'm much more invested in his relationship with Catwoman, Alfred, and his vow.
>>108950426Morrison - Batman is a Zen Master who is also still emotionally a frozen child
Snyder - Batman is dead, and cannot have a future with any real family. Oh, and Alfred calls him son a lot.
O'Neil - Batman is very cool, but also completely pointless and shouldn't be Batman (at least, that's what he thinks at the end of his career, see also his Holiday anthology story and his Tec 1000 story)
Moench - doesn't really have much interesting to say
Tomasi - Batman is a daddy. He's always in lots of pain, and this justifies how mean he is to everyone except Damian, because Damian is also always in lots of pain.
>>108950430King's Batman does struggle with the Batfamily. I liked the issues he did with Dick (and then editorial completely ignored his suggestions on how to resolve that problem and gave us the trash fire of Ric). Bruce hitting Tim is clearly a reference to the famous Batman slapping Robin, as well as a breaking point. It's supposed to be Bruce falling to his lowest point - the arc is called the Fall and the Fallen. Bruce clearly loves his kids, even though he's really bad at saying it, in I Am Bane in the burger scene. As for Bruce not loving Catwoman - I'm pretty sure we're going to get more exploration of what that really means in the next 18 months. Finally - it wasn't losing Selina that was the greatest tragedy - that was Bruce being raised emotionally to the peak of happiness, and then being brought down over the next 25 issues by isolating him from not just Catwoman, but also his whole family and city and friends (Gordon).
>>108950466Well, I disagree with Snyder's conclusions about Bruce in Superheavy, but the idea that Batman's vow is basically death to any idea of Bruce growing as a person is clearly not just a Tom King thing.
