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In DETECTIVE COMICS #500, Batman meets The Phantom Stranger, who gives him the opprtunity to save the lives of the Thomas and Martha Waye of a different reality - one with no superheroes or even any heroic literature. At the end of the story, the young Bruce Wayne of this alternate decides to train himself to be a crimefighter - just like the one who saved the lives of his parents.
I'd like to see a mini-series or even a one-shot about this alternate Batman, one motivated not by loss or grief or anger, but by gratitude to a mysterious vigilante who saved his family. It would be even more interesting considering that there wouldn't be any other heroes - indeed, he might be the only hero this alternate reality has ever known.
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Hmmm... DETECTIVE COMICS #500 has a cover-date of March 1981. The young Bruce Wayne in that story was eight years old, so he would've turned eight in 1980. That means he was born in 1972, making him just two years older than me in this year of 2005 -- 33 years old. In other words, plenty of time in which to have had a career on that parallel world.
It would be interesting for all the reasons you mention above, but I think it would be even more interesting if it was set in real time, in a more-or-less realistic world, with references to historical and pop culture events over the last 20 years. Yeah, I'd buy that.
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Like an Elseworlds? It couldnt really be done in the regular books without tons of groupies complaining that its 'too super-natural' for a Batman book, bit I wouldnt mind an Elseworlds project. You know the writer would probably end the story with his parents dying though, just to have an ending that basically says "Vengeful batman is Bruce Waynes destiny". I'd like to see his villains explored in the story aswell, like seeing another robber accidentally fall in the chemicals, or a completely different chemical mis-hap, and ofcourse another person would lead to different things, like a Joker that becomes a serious hitman. See Oswald Cobblepot being a legitimate businessman while someone else controls the shady Gotham underworld, someone with a completely different personality
Wouldnt like any obvious crap like previously mentioned either, like Jack Napier falling into chemicals at the end of the story to say that "It was his destiny the become the Joker". Crap like that needs to be steered well clear off, a different Batman in a different reality warrants a completely different approach [even see Batman adopt a much more violent crime fighting style without his parents deaths looming over him]
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Hmmm... DETECTIVE COMICS #500 has a cover-date of March 1981. The young Bruce Wayne in that story was eight years old, so he would've turned eight in 1980. That means he was born in 1972, making him just two years older than me in this year of 2005 -- 33 years old. In other words, plenty of time in which to have had a career on that parallel world.
It would be interesting for all the reasons you mention above, but I think it would be even more interesting if it was set in real time, in a more-or-less realistic world, with references to historical and pop culture events over the last 20 years. Yeah, I'd buy that.
One problem, though: we'd assume that since 24 years to pass in the alternate universe, 24 years must have passed in the DCU. Of course, there are ways around that (time travel, different rates of time), but it would be a little less plausible, yes?
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On that note, I love DK's concept. I'd like to see it happen.
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You'd probably end up with a Batman not unlike the way he was portrayed in the 50s and early 60s: friendly guy who spoke at schools and accepted the key to the city every other issue.
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Seriously, DK - write this story and send it in to DC.
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Seriously, DK - write this story and send it in to DC.
They'll probably just use it and say they never got his letter. Chances are they'll give it to Judd Winnick and he'll add a part about Bruce having aids from gay sex with the Joker for a l'il shock value  ... 
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I take it you're a fan of Winick's work, then.
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You'd probably end up with a Batman not unlike the way he was portrayed in the 50s and early 60s: friendly guy who spoke at schools and accepted the key to the city every other issue.
Either that, or a Batman hounded by police who think he's a bad guy because it doesn't occur to them that Batman is actually a crimefighter.
Remember, this is a world without heroes, or even heroic literature or mythology. The concept of someone fighting evil for a noble cause may be a fireign one to the people of this reality.
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I take it you're a fan of Winick's work, then.
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Hmmm... DETECTIVE COMICS #500 has a cover-date of March 1981. The young Bruce Wayne in that story was eight years old, so he would've turned eight in 1980. That means he was born in 1972, making him just two years older than me in this year of 2005 -- 33 years old. In other words, plenty of time in which to have had a career on that parallel world.
It would be interesting for all the reasons you mention above, but I think it would be even more interesting if it was set in real time, in a more-or-less realistic world, with references to historical and pop culture events over the last 20 years. Yeah, I'd buy that.
One problem, though: we'd assume that since 24 years to pass in the alternate universe, 24 years must have passed in the DCU. Of course, there are ways around that (time travel, different rates of time), but it would be a little less plausible, yes?
I think compressed time is the stupidest idea that Marvel and DC ever came up with.
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On that note, I love DK
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