Sure Bats is usually dark but in this tale he is just a man....

 The character of how Bruce Wayne becomes Batman has been told in many different ways since he was first don the cape and cowl to find his purpose in life over 75 years ago......Here is my take of all things about this graphic novel and a little more reason why BATS slowly getting closer to my number one hero slot of all time.......  

Hello Comic kiddos......
 Yes it is true, this past week I pulled a wired trick on myself which is rather cool I must say. So what was the trick huh?, well it turns out I went to this fine book store seen here 

better known as Adventures Underground in Richland Washington. It has been a little while since I have a comic book review of any sorts and I finally figured it was about time for a most interesting take on the guy known as Bruce Wayne who is celebrating seventy five years of being in all forms of varied media. One little thing that I would like to throw out as a  Christmas swish list hint to anyone really needing gift ideas for me Matt is this, a few years ago maybe 2012 I think? a Batman novel came out in print known as this seen here

     not that I'm expecting it as from anonymous reader of this blog, it's meant as a close family suggestion is all really. In this take on Batman's origin it has two time lines the eventually merge as any type of story that does round itself off as a starting point. It starts out with Batman chasing a gentleman in a tuxedo for what seems like his millionth time and as the chase plays itself out we the viewing audience as a reader get to see a line from Tim Burton's nineteen eighty nine Batman film that is uttered by Jack Nicholson's  Joker at the end of the museum scene of the movie where as Bats swing up through the ceiling with Miss Vale " Where does he get those wonderful toys?", in essence shows that in this story he's still gaining ground at what he is doing. For after falling into some garbage he realizes his help is needed everywhere. 
        Then the reader gets into the story of the past via a "flash back sequence", where we learn that Bruce's father is running to be the mayor of the town and that Bruce is for the first time realizing he can't always have his father's attention like he would like as a kid, yet his mother after talking to Tomas set the boy fears of being a kid at ease........and so comes Bruce's moment of truth and his parents are gunned down as the history processed as it should! In this take Alfred his butler isn't just a fellow who answers the Bat-Phone like in the nineteen sixties television series, in fact in this he is a former Royal Marine solider who has a daughter in Seoul Korea and has been a protector of the whole Wayne family before the event that makes young Bruce so moody in his normal life when you look at Batman in the regular Detective Comics universe. Alfred comes to the police station to help the police and Child protective custody worker that have the young boy's fate in a two way question, of "What do WE DO with him?"  with the child protective custody worker ready to give the lad to the state of New York's foster home agency. In the end after seeing only questions in the lad's eyes Alfred fulfills the boy's parents wish and raises him. Roughly a few years later an untrained Bruce decides to  continue looking for his parents killer while it seems as if Alfred has chosen to give up the quest for his choice of knowing the answers all together. While Wayne is out finding little at this very point we finally meet two other characters that are forever and willing to help Bats at no cost as long as the city of Gotham is  safe, police detective  James Gordon  who is in the middle of finding a kidnapper of young girls and his own flesh and blood daughter Barbara who happens to be bringing dear old dad some dinner, since he is working late as usual.
        Like the new television series named after Bruce's home city, we find that the Gotham in this story stinks of lies and deceit all around, Gordon got a partner that follows him around to find out just what the hot sauce is that is eating away at the core of the side of law anywhere the two can find clues to who is only leaving birthday candles at every crime scene of the case they are currently working.  Bruce decides after looking at the files of his parents case to visit their crypt in the back of Wayne manor and finds that his father had statues to inspire fear at times and Bruce uses this to his way of finding their killer by being a Bat.It is at this very moment he choose to fight without any weapons that can cause harm to another human being, meanwhile Gordon new partner really get him in hot water by using Gordon's penmanship to get to the heart of who their killer is, while Batman finds a street punk with his dad's ring and 
 
wants to know did he kill the Wayne boy's parents.When both the new hero being called Batman and James Gordon find out who they are both looking for turns out to be none other than Gotham's mayor Oswald Cobblepot the ice of Gotham's darkest night really melts into the greatest take on Batman's very first and only mistake that could land him behind bars when he hits Gordon for 

being in his way of getting his kind of vengeance against the man who would one day be called The Penguin. After all is said and done Bruce in a way like Peter Parker learns the cost of responsibility for being both selfish and a hero at the same time. This story was written by Goff Johns whom seems to be one of DC's most wanted writers and has wrote a script for all three seasons of ARROW. The art of this apparently first volume of Batman Earth one is former Incredible hulk comic artist Gary Frank who pencils here bring every character especially the hidden ones to life so fluidly, this title came out original in 2012 and I heard about it but just wasn't sure if I would like it but you know what I will say this even though part two of this story seen here 

,may still be a long wait away....... I glad to say I'm giving this one five out of five stars for it is expertly worth reading a great many times over!