Mani it is totally hilarious that I agree with you, but I am also ok with it from a storytelling perspective.
I’d say that I’m better with Batcat than I am with faceoff Joker, Harper, Gordon Superheavy Bat and 70% of the junk we got from Snyder.
That absolutly.
When you have a run like snyders that goes from one extreme to the other, its fantastic when you have King with arcs that are not this over the top.
The ideas were all there and god damn i waited long for someone to make Bane the overarching villian of a run.
But its all just background for Kings actual Targeted goal.
And that is my big problem.
Its not even batcat overall, i like it sometimes...its just nothing that gets me super excited anymore because i know that it always ends in nothing.
No matter what, they both end at the same road they were before...because you can not do much more with them without ruining who they are.
Therefore i cant get behind it too much...i like the cat and mouse game they play, the tension etc...but it always ends the same way because of who they are.
My problem is that its all more or less written to fit an outdated version of Bruce.
The one who is "alone", has nobody, where being batman is a curse...where wearing the cowl is agony and makes him unhappy.
Where he is emotionally cut off from everybody...except selina.
That to me is a bruce wayne from 15-20 years ago, not the one in the here and now.
Now we have a Bruce that trusts his family, his friends, who is Batman because he wants to and because he sees the symbol of good in wearing the cowl.
The man who uses the pain of his parents death and every loss and pain for the good fight.
I dont know, maybe i had way too high hopes for Kings run and give him less room than other writers on this.