Quote Originally Posted by JBatmanFan05 View Post
Yup, Zero Hour change, and for me, it's one of Denny's rare big blunders. Sadly, I once read an interview* with Dixon, who I mostly love, and he made a comment that suggested he might have been a driving force for the change: Dixon said that Batman would stop crimefighting if his parents' killer was caught/solved. And that's a view I very much don't share.

*google results are suggesting to me that it will be most difficult to find this interview again, though here's an interview where Dixon says his Batman ending would see Bruce retire https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/...batmans-story/
Yea I think the idea was that if the killer was unknown, Batman was symbolically avenging his parents’ death with each criminal he stopped, because any of them could be “the one”. I agree it was a misstep, much like the ill-fated “he’s an urban legend and no one thinks he is real and we definitely don’t understand what urban legends are” idea.