“The Fall and the Fallen” continues! Will it be father and son working together, or tearing each other apart? When it comes to the Waynes, expect a little of both. In the quest to get Bruce Wayne to hang up the cape and cowl, Thomas Wayne is going t…
“The Fall and the Fallen” continues! Will it be father and son working together, or tearing each other apart? When it comes to the Waynes, expect a little of both. In the quest to get Bruce Wayne to hang up the cape and cowl, Thomas Wayne is going to have to use a little tough love. Only, not all the muscle behind it will be his own.
Tom King is pseudo-recreating the events of Knightfall but on a much darker scale, if that’s possible. In Knightfall Bane didn’t break Batman. He orchestrated events and Batman broke himself trying to do what was right and save the citizens of Gotham. After Batman broke himself Bane took the husk of what was left and broke his back. Batman destroying himself trying to save people is heroic. In King’s take on the story, Batman is being destroyed mentally because he was left at the altar. Bruce can’t accept Selina left him and believes Bane orchestrated the event. Nothing about Bane’s plan has been about using Batman’s heroic nature against him. It’s Bruce creating a fake villain because he can’t accept she left him and he’s breaking mentally more and more each issue.
Recently King said his story will alter Batman for generations. My theory is when this is over Batman will be schizophrenic, suffer dissociative identity disorder or some other severe mental health malady. This is my take on the direction of the series and the hallucinations Batman is frequently suffering. This is a terrible direction for any heroic archetype and I hope I’m reading this all wrong.
One of the reasons I’ve come to this conclusion is the amount of continuity errors each issue now. This issue Batman uses the Bat-Signal to shoot a red beam in the sky. The signal was destroyed by Gordon back in issue 60. There are also many characters who shouldn’t be where they are depicted such as Hush and Man-Bat in Arkham Asylum in issue 70. The volume of errors has to be intentional and part of Batman’s mental breakdown.
Batman #71 tells two concurrent stories. One in ..
