As for comic book inspiration, both Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson have made little secret of them being fans of the character’s mythos. The usual suspects of the Batman holy grail of comics have been references, including Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’sThe Long Halloweenand Frank Miller and Da...
The filmmaker took inspiration from Mike W. Barr’s “Batman: Year Two” in his decision to set the movie in Bruce’s second year as a masked vigilante. In both the comic and the film, Bruce already has a relationship set up with the Gotham police, although he’s still working out a...
There's never been a better time to be a Batman fan. Withmultiple incarnations of the Dark Knight appearing in upcoming movies and TV series, and a superstar creative teamtaking the reins of DC's flagship Batman comic, we figured now was the time to update our breakdown of the best Batma...
Some of the best tie-ins have included Lego Batman which ties in the building blocks, the Dark Knight, the animated movie, and a game. Surprisingly, considering how many elements it is juggling, it does it very well. In fact, Batman is one of the most successful crossovers from comic bo...
Based on the superhero comic books of the same name, director Gina Prince-Bythewood's movie sucks viewers into a slick, well-crafted world of action and narrative that isn't particularly unique but delivers its formulaic pieces with enough precision to keep you invested. Charlize Theron crushes...
Much of what would eventually become the opening title sequence ofBatman: The Animated Series– and the show itself – began there. Gotham Noir One of the first things Timm and Radomski did was immerse themselves in inspiration. Timm was a great admirer of 1940s pulp fiction characters like ...
Naturally, Batman chooses the Batman door, and he is therefore real, and Bruce Wayne is not. But - Bruce Wayne, weak and sick, is still real; we just can't see him anymore, because he did not occur, because his life cannot really exist in a corporate-owned superhero comic. Similarly...
When Batman and Robin hand criminals over to the police, they stamp them on the forehead with a bat symbol. This may have been the inspiration for the bat-brand used by the Ben Affleck Batman in Zack Snyder’sBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice(2016). ...
Now we get to the one part of the comic that kind of annoyed me, and why I questioned the Elie Wiesel quote. Barbara’s narration says “I need a resource…and not one from Batman or my father. One I would find on my own.” So she posts online about being “confined to a wheelc...
Batman? Spider-Man? Judge Dredd?Groot? The greatest comic-book characters in the canon have been debated and argued over for decades. The creations of Bon Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee and co. undoubtedly form a might canon – in every sense.Empirehas delved into...