…in his Batman: Earth One book with Geoff Johns. That costume seems to have inspired the new costume for a “returned” Bruce Wayne as Batman in its “main” DC universe.
Anyhow, interesting comments on his Earth One design by Gary Frank below. I like the evolutionary aspect referred to in the clip below. I’m curious as what the primitive costume would like since the more polished version is the one I appended at the end of this piece.
We have seen some of your early design sketches but can you talk about the look and feel of your Batman? Specifically, are there some major changes that you’ve made to the costume?
There is but it’s going to be a progression. We’re not regarding this as a finished, archetypical Batman, so everything is in development. And when you see the first issue you’ll see what I mean. He starts out with quite a primitive costume. He hasn’t thought a lot of things through. He doesn’t really know what he’s supposed to do. He’s a young man, he’s an angry, young man and obviously for some strange reason he’s decided the best way to go about making himself feel better is to dress as a bat creature and go and solve crimes.
Perfectly normal.
Perfectly normal, exactly. But, you know, the point at which we’re dealing with him is at point where maybe a lot of people who have become unhinged as a result of a terrible event find themselves in. It’s a crossroads event and the reason he doesn’t end up as a crazy guy in a suit, getting arrested and stuff like that is because of the way he interacts with the characters around him. So in as much as the character will actually develop, so will the look of the character, so will the costumes and so will everything around him. We’ll see the character develop further with every page. And I think that’s going to be very exciting.
Source: CBR
The image on the left is Gary Frank’s Earth One Batman design. This is from a new alternate Earth line. The graphic novel has yet to be released.
The image on the right is Andy Kubert’s Batman Inc. #1 variant. This is in the main DC Universe and set for November release.
The costumes are very similar, aren’t they? ;)
