Batman: The Imposter

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The story provides an engaging mystery as Wong and Bruce Wayne, as well as Wong and Batman, try to find the imposter committing murders and disgracing the reputation of Batman.

And absolutely none of these things, imposter included, get fleshed out to a satisfactory degree. I think just the imposter and Tompkins would’ve been good, and then center the story thematically on identity and mental health. As is, it feels very unfocused. This was utterly disappointing after having a solid start. It got so boring that I just slogged through it for the sake of reading. This is official sequel/prequel to the recent Batman movie. It's is written by one of the screenwriters of movie. This book is good example of how writing for comics is not same as writing for movies. It doesn't read like a comic and the dialogues are uninteresting and feel lifeless.Demoted to Extra: Alfred Pennyworth and James Gordon only receive a few mentions, compared to the central members of the supporting cast they are elsewhere.

Set in the early years of Batman's career, the story grew out of Tomlin's experiences working on the script for writer/director Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman, which tells its own story of the crimefighter's early battles. For Tomlin, who wasn't part of the entire writing process on the film, it was an exercise in generating a lot of ideas, but not necessarily having a way to fit them all on the screen. So, he turned to another medium. There are lots of ways to explore Bruce Wayne's early years as Gotham's Caped Crusader, as evidenced by everything from Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Batman: Year One to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman: Zero Year, but Tomlin wasn't interested in telling another origin story. What he was interested in was an in-depth exploration of Bruce Wayne's motives and drive, something he achieved by immediately putting the character in conflict with a new version of Gotham City staple Dr. Leslie Thompkins. It’s not that it’s superhuman, it’s that it is a coping mechanism. So then leaning into certain realities of that…I don’t think that we talk enough about the mental health of Bruce Wayne. On the one hand, it’s visually cool and exciting to dress up as a bat and go beat people up and at the same time, that’s deranged. The point that so many creators and fans bring up about how Bruce Wayne should be in Arkham along with all of the villains, I don’t necessarily disagree with that. So it just kind of felt like, lean into that a little bit more, let’s be a little bit more honest about what’s going on with this guy. SR: You're posing the same question as Nolan's film, but you go in a completely different direction. Both in terms of how you build up the Bat arsenal, and also in terms of introspection with Bruce and his mental state. Will both of those directions continue through the story, and were both a priority for you? But Blair Wong and Leslie Thompkins aren't the only characters creating complications in Bruce Wayne's crimefighting life. There's also the title imposter, who appears in the first issue and sends ripples through Gotham City, from the underworld to the police department, with their attempts to imitate Batman. For Tomlin, creating an imposter Caped Crusader was motivated in part by his decision to steer away from direct confrontations with bigger villain names in his comics writing debut, but it was also part of the grounded nature of the story. If Batman really was going on, dressing up in a costume, and actually having an impact on his city, it makes sense that someone else might try to set up a twisted mirror image of that.So much of what [Reeves] was doing was already set," Tomlin told SYFY WIRE. "And I spent so much time thinking about Batman that year, that I kind of felt like, 'Man, I have all of these ideas, and kind of things I would have done, or ways to go that just never applied to the movie, because it was its own thing.' And I ended up calling the folks at DC Films and kind of sheepishly asking them, 'Hey, I'm really interested in comic books. I actually really, really loved the 'books. So is there anybody at DC that I could talk to?' And they were very, very generous, and they set me right up." I don’t really like it, which surprising to me because I’ve heard so many good things about it. Part if the issue is that it’s the 500th “yeah but like, obviously Batman is mentally ill and let’s do a grounded, gritty version of him” take on Batman and I’ve seen it done better. The story dismantles the idiotic claims that Bruce Wayne should just throw money at Gotham, and fix it that way as if that would work.

Batman: o impostor #01” mostra um Batman em início de carreira (é pego distraído, toma mais porrada do que estamos acostumados a ver; erra alvos e por aí vai) que está as voltas com um impostor que mata. Tomlinson is the writer of the upcoming batman movie of 2022 (as of this time) and it seems like this story takes place there and its amazingly done and he sets up a lot of easter eggs and the main story is an imposter going around murdering people and how does Bruce react to it or stop them and I love the way he handles it with Leslie and this new detective Claire wong and also showing how similar they are and pushing the romance angle and then the revelations and all the drama that comes from it and finally the big reveal and its handled so well and leads to great ending which makes you think a lot of things! Second, the dialogue is mostly fine, but at times it can get rather wordy, sometimes even rambly. An example is when Wong—one of the main characters in the comic, a cop—meets Wesker (not Arnold, but his dad, who owns a big company in this universe). During this conversation, Wesker boasts about how he is Gotham. Wong then begins to tell Wesker how he is not Gotham by explaining things to him that he should already know. This could be seen as her hammering these things home to Wesker, but the way it is presented makes me feel like all these details are mainly included so the readers can be informed about the power that Wesker has in this universe. This is not a deal breaker for me, but these are the moments where the dialogue dips in quality just a little bit, as it just doesn’t feel organic. However, the dialogue between Wong and Wesker is actually pretty good for the most part! It reads like a subtle game of chess, where Wong has to stand her ground and stay true to her principles while Wesker’s trying to manipulate her. It creates an interesting dynamic between the characters that the creative team can build on in future chapters.Frankly, it scares me, because I know it’s territory that could upset a lot of people in the same way that taking Alfred out the way that I did. I knew that that was gonna upset a lot of people and at the same time it feels narratively earned. I think that I just have to kind of go there, and if people hate it, they hate it. Otherwise, they might appreciate that there’s something different here. So yeah, that’s a long way of saying I would love to do lots more in this universe. That’s about as descriptive as I would get in my writing. Sometimes Andrea would take all of that and add to it in a way that really kind of made it mindbogglingly way more awesome. Other times he would take none of it and instead come up with something 1000 times better. There was never ever, ever a time where I had written something and Andrea delivered something worse. The script was always the worst thing about this thing.