Just Finished Reading Batman Incorporated Vol 1 And...

[MajorHoy]

Yo, the Ro-Bats are amazing. They are pulling a classic "shadowy grimace" that Batman made so popular.

Besides, Red Tornado IS a robot and he's on the Justice League. Also Cyborg? Robots everywhere!

Depends on which "Justice League" you're talking about.

In the animated Young Justice and the pre-Flashpoint comic books . . . yes.

In the DCnU since September . . . we don't even know if Red Tornado ever existed yet.

As for Cyborg, he's still a human being with a bunch of mechanical parts . . . slightly different from a robot with no human parts.

[bkey313]

Batman should for started a group like Inc long before Morrison came along. In the 70s he attempted to take the fight to Ra's but he was outnumbered. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Looking foward to see how Inc ends up.

[MajorHoy]

Batman should for started a group like Inc long before Morrison came along. In the 70s he attempted to take the fight to Ra's but he was outnumbered. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Looking foward to see how Inc ends up.

Well, I was going to say something, but it turns out somebody else did about three years ago.

The idea of Batman breaking away from the globe trotting JLA and forming his own group was stunning 26 years ago.

Still a darned good idea.

Batman and the Outsiders # 1 (1983)

cover by Jim Aparo

[Choppa]

...I have a really unsettling thought on this book, not to mention the concept of Batman Incorporated.

Let's ignore the question as to why Bruce hasn't been arrested for Aiding and Abetting Vigilantism. I can just pass that off as "He's rich as hell." No, what nerved me is that...Bruce is even closer to being like Ra's Al Ghul than ever before.


Think about it:

An extremely wealthy and highly intelligent male utilizes both those aspects to create a world-spanning organization that dedicates itself to shaping the world into such that male believes should be right. He utilizes highly skilled, efficient, and motivated agents to aid in his quest.

Now, who did I just describe?


Am I saying that Bruce will become evil? Well, no. That'd be stupid. I'm just saying that it's a slippery slope. It's even more nerve racking when you combine it with images like this one from Issue #6:

If I knew nothing about Batman, I would think that the guy in that image was the villain.


Don't take this as me hating Batman Inc. or Grant Morrison and please let's not start that here. I did enjoy it, and will be picking it up again come the end of May, but I feel this idea could be explored further.


Thoughts?

Honestly it kind of sounds like you don't know what's going on in the story.

Bruce created INC to fight against Leviathan and prevent some kind of terrible future that's supposed to happen. He's clearly doing it to save people from it occurring.

How do you get trying to shape the world based on his beliefs from that?

[MajorHoy]

Honestly it kind of sounds like you don't know what's going on in the story.

Bruce created INC to fight against Leviathan and prevent some kind of terrible future that's supposed to happen. He's clearly doing it to save people from it occurring.

How do you get trying to shape the world based on his beliefs from that?

[thwhtGuardian]

Where is that from?

[Mat001]

"Infinite Crisis" #6. That was when Bruce was going to shut down Brother Eye and it was trying to delay that, by showing that he was created in part to protect the world from the Metahuman community. But that ignores that a) Max Lord corrupted Brother Eye and b) that Bruce only did that because he was angry at the realization that the JLA had taken ten minutes away from him, after they had tinkered with Dr. Light's mind. This was in the wake of Sue Dibny's death.

But just because that happened, doesn't mean that it will repeat itself in "Incoporated" when it concludes. It could mean that people die while helping Bruce.

[Choppa]

And....? What are you trying to say?