Tom King Batman: Reread & Bat/Cat Appreciation 2020

[David Walton]

I'd have to read those two back to back. I know King reread Vengeance of Bane before writing I Am Suicide, so maybe he's just trying to give a different mood - there are ways I think I could explain those inconsistencies without it being a full retcon.

It's not a full retcon but it definitely tweaks Bane's origin. And I assume the New 52 gave more license to do so than otherwise would have been afforded.

I will say that I love how he approaches the cell where Bane was kept, with the aging and de-aging as the years pass in his mind as he talks with Psycho-Pirate. Just brilliant stuff.

King also puts Bruce at being ten when his parents were murdered, and for some reason I thought the official number had always been eight?