I've spent a good many words talking about all the ways that Morrison radically changed the status quo and even what a Batman comic could be. By the time of Batman Incorporated, Bruce had confronted his innermost psyche, "died", travelled through time, come back to life, taken on his long lost son as the new…

What is Batman? Aside from a billionaire who dresses like a bat to fight crime, that is. There's clearly something more behind an idea so pervasive that it's become an icon. One could argue his real world success can be attributed to a mix of a memorable design, interesting concept, and his place as the…

There is a constant push and pull between comics' expectations and the need to adapt to a changing world. What made sense for Batman in 1939 does not necessarily work over half a century later. However, every change is made by inches as comics fight against decades of entrenched ideas of what they should be.…

By the bronze age of the 1970s, the modern idea of who Batman is had been largely codified. The dark knight as we know him was defined by legendary writers like Denny O'Neil and Steve Englehart. Even later writers like Frank Miller were still working from the same template, just taken in a grittier direction.…