Interesting. I’m looking forward to this. Seems interesting.
I know you can’t talk too much about it just yet, but how far along are you on “Batman: Earth One?”
I have 21 pages done so far.
You mentioned you were more of Batman guy than a Superman guy but have you learned anything new about Bruce Wayne and Batman over those first 21 pages that you maybe hadn’t considered before?
At the moment, out of Bruce, nothing really, as you’ll see when you get this thing in your hand. Bruce at the moment is still a spoiled child. He’s not a particularly likable character. But the character that is the most fascinating at the moment is Alfred. We have a completely new Alfred. And he is going to be much, much more central to the character of Batman.
What is it about Alfred that has changed so much? He has a military background, correct?
Yeah, instead of being a glorified butler, we find there is much, much more to Alfred. He is much more of a man of the world and a much wiser character. Well, I guess Alfred is normally fairly wise but I don’t know, I just never really felt entirely convinced by the current Alfred taking out swords and battling ninjas and things like that. So we have a character in Alfred, in the early days at least, who is quite an intimidating character for Bruce. Bruce is slightly over-awed and slightly frightened of him in the early days and the most interesting thing about the book, I think, will be the way that the relationship develops between the two of them.
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