Grommers
King Grommers
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Well, Morrison's whole point with his run was kind of to do the opposite of what Nolan's doing in the movies just as a kind of breath of fresh air to the Batbooks.
While Batman hasn't been a loner for, well, 70 years, his stories have been prominently grim and gritty for quite some time. Morrison's goal was the bring back the more sci-fi, more camp-influenced era of Batman comics from the 50s-60s.
Which, obviously, is a pretty controversial thing to do. But after 20-30 years of grim and gritty, I kind of welcome the change.
Yes and no. I mean yeah, Batman's in the Justice League book, but it's rarely about him. It's a team book where he's just part of the ensemble.
Not all of the Batman books will have Batman running around with a team of people, though. I mean, The Dark Knight is pretty much a solo-Bruce book. Batman and Detective are both pretty much Dick solo, as well.
I appreciate the response, because I see where it's coming from. I just don't agree with the route they are taking. I would feel a more compelling storyline would be him stopping EVERYONE else from also crime fighting to try to make there life happier as opposed to drag people down to his "grim and gritty".
I just look at that as batmans logic and thinking process, which I just feel this is like you said back to the 50s/60s. I just feel the grim & gritty hasn't reached full circle for him to come around and bring more team back yet, maybe in a couple of years, the dark knight I feel is not ready yet, and that he needs to hit the extreme before realizing the need for balance in his life of having allies/friends to support him.