Frank Millar
Jim Starlin
Bob Kane/Bill Finger
Judd Winick
Ed Brubaker
Gerry Conway
Paul Dini
Chuck Dixon
Gardner Fox
Peter Tomasi
Jeph Leob
Grant Morrison
Scott Snyder
Dennis O'neil
Other
No it isn't. I went back and reread it, and it's nothing like this. Bruce has just come from a fight and is bleeding. He feels useless and weak, he doesn't know how to make criminals fear him. He asks a statue of his father to tell him how he can make criminals fear him, and says he'd rather die than have to wait any longer for the answer. He's not saying he actually wants to die, and he didn't slit his own wrist, he's just saying he needs to understand how become something more powerful. It has nothing to do with suicide.
Fair enough. I liked the story but I can understand why you don't want that take. And the Harley Quinn Show proves that it's still possible to make Kite Man compelling without that tragedy. It's just interesting that his whole tragedy and even his reaction to this event and eventual alliance with Batman is completely artifically planned by the Riddler. Plus taking something so sad but innocent about a child and making it a gimmick is really unique.
The only thing that happens in Flashpoint is that Barry gives Bruce a letter from Thomas, but we don't get to read the full letter and it definitely wasn't supposed to tell Bruce not to be Batman. It was all Tom King.
Voted for Paul Dini.
Honorable mentions: Dennis O'Neil, Steve Englehart, Chuck Dixon, Len Wein, Grant Morrison, Alan Grant, Doug Monech, Greg Rucka,
Then I have remembered it wrong for a long time. I would have sworn there's a scene of Bruce deciding to call Alfred for help or just bleeding out then and there because all the training amounted to nothing.
Could have been worse like King darkening Killer Moth instead of Kite-Man.
Another thing I got wrong and I will punish myself by rereading it
NOTE: Thread first started in November 2020 by Lightning63.
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With 97 people having voted,* Grant Morrison = 38 votes
* Dennis O'Neil = 13 votes
* Chuck Dixon = 11 votes
* "other" = 9 votes
* Paul Dini = 8 votes
All other options currently have less than five votes each.
Dini for me. His 'Tec is how I want 'Tec to be written.
My favourites are;
Greg Rucka
Alan Grant
Steve Engelhart
Tim King
I think Devin K Grayson's run is criminally underrated, too.
"Has Sariel summoned you here, Azrael? Have you come to witness the miracle of your brethren arriving on Earth?"
"I WILL MIX THE ASHES OF YOUR BONES WITH SALT AND USE THEM TO ENSURE THE EARTH THE TEMPLARS TILLED NEVER BEARS FRUIT AGAIN!"
"*sigh* I hoped it was for the miracle."
Dan Watters' Azrael was incredible, a constant delight and perhaps too good for this world (but not the Forth). For the love of St. Dumas, DC, give us more!!!
"Has Sariel summoned you here, Azrael? Have you come to witness the miracle of your brethren arriving on Earth?"
"I WILL MIX THE ASHES OF YOUR BONES WITH SALT AND USE THEM TO ENSURE THE EARTH THE TEMPLARS TILLED NEVER BEARS FRUIT AGAIN!"
"*sigh* I hoped it was for the miracle."
Dan Watters' Azrael was incredible, a constant delight and perhaps too good for this world (but not the Forth). For the love of St. Dumas, DC, give us more!!!
Hurray for "Tom King," the man who created the Knight Watchman!
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NOTE: Thread first started in November 2020 by Lightning63.
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With 105 people having voted,* Grant Morrison = 41 votes
* Dennis O'Neil = 15 votes
* Chuck Dixon = 11 votes
* "other" = 11 votes
* Paul Dini = 9 votes
All other options currently still have less than five votes each.
Best bat run of the last decade belongs to James Tynion and his Rise of the Batmen saga from rebirth in Detective Comics, sucked it had to end eary cause DC didnt want it being a team book anymore. did his Ra's Al Ghul plotline ever get resolved anywhere?
havent read enough pre-new 52 to pick before that.