I want more of this Bruce Wayne. I want Bruce and Lex to be rivals and Lex has all kinds of evidence that should have led his brilliant mind to immediately finger Bruce as Batman but he’s just such a goddamn looney toon that suspicion never really attaches. Also I’d like to see a Batman that has actually achieved some work-life balance, where he has off hours to basically screw with Lex in extravagant ways, invent useful things, and work the political system in clever ways that gradually turn Gotham into a rival city to Metropolis, cheesing off Supes to no end, which just makes it all the sweeter.
One thing I really adore about Tom King’s Batman (This is from I Am Gotham with David Finch) is that he takes the Moore/Miller “Isn’t Batman craaaaaazyyyyyy” approach and then flips it on its head, showing the repetition and the obsession, the unhealthy coping mechanisms, and then asks the simple question, why are they unhealthy? They kept him alive, kept him together, helped him become a better person, didn’t they? It takes the mentally ill aspect of Batman’s character and separates it, utterly, from the “Sociopathic villain” perception it seemed to go hand in hand with, explaining that, yes, Batman can be mentally ill, and yes, Batman can still then be an inherently, unambiguously good person
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