For a live-action Beyond movie, should Bruce be a former Batman or someone who never played Batman?

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Are we having Batman: Earth One Volume 4 anytime soon?

What about it?

I just finished Volume 3 of Batman: Earth One and I thought it was amazing, so without giving any spoilers are Geoff Jones and Gary Frank giving us another volume of Earth One?

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Have Batman villains gotten more monstrous & supernatural lately? Why?

What about it?

I feel like a lot of the comic villains invented in the past couple decades have been either a lot more monstrous in appearance or supernatural in ability. Ex: Mister Bloom, Barbatos, Smush, etc. I think this is a trend that has slowly grown over the eras. Batman villains, even the weird and disfigured ones, used to be primarily explicitly human, but it seems like straight up monsters have become a lot more popular. The earliest example of monstrous & super-powered villain I can think of is the Mad Monk but he feels like an oddity in the golden age. The next example I came up with is Matt Hagen’s Clayface. Another phenomenon I noticed is the tendency for older villains to be reimagined in more monstrous forms. Clayface is maybe the earliest example. The original Basil Karlo was just a guy in makeup. Doctor Death is a great recent example, and of course they even turned Killer Moth into Charaxes for a time Not to mention how Killer Croc evolved from just a guy with a skin condition into a literal humanoid dinosaur While I think Mister Bloom is cool and creepy, he never felt like a Batman villain to me. Personally I much prefer when Batman’s most disturbing villains aren’t supernatural in any way. Zsasz, Cornelius Stirk, & Professor Pyg will also be more interesting to me than the literal monsters What do you think? Have you also noticed this trend? Do you like monstrous villains? Why do you think there are so many modern examples?

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damian wayne and helena wayne have meet [world finest #7]

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Batman and the Batmobile (@thealexrossart)

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Batman. DC Style guide style. By me. hope you like it.

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“What you do is, you square up and then *explode* through your hips…!” (Detective Comics #333)

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It's either DC giving them nothing to do or the fans saying that the others are a waiste of space.

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How does Batman still have all his gear/gadgets without his wealth?

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Dr Wolper from Batman Dark knight returns incompetent and a fraud?

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Not entirely Batman but he’s at the center. I put this together for a wallpaper today.

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