Writer Tom King 's run on DC's flagship Batman comic was initially one of the main highlights from the publisher's DC Rebirth initiative when it launched back in Three years later, it has become one of the longest-lasting of the initial Rebirth creative teams, and one of the most celebrated — but it all comes to a head this week with the beginning of the "City of Bane" arc.
As the title suggests, this week's Batman 75 finds Gotham City overrun by Bane. King's run has gone a long way towards catapulting Bane into the top-tier of Batman's rogues gallery in case Tom Hardy's Dark Knight Rises portrayal wasn't enough. Though he first appeared early in the run, Bane was only getting started.
EW spoke with King recently in a long-running conversation about his run and what it's been building towards. Some of it was about the epic Batman-Catwoman reunion that will take place during "City of Bane" after the characters' failed wedding back in issue 50 , but we also discussed how the new story builds on seeds that King has been planting for years.
The very first arc of King's Batman was called "I Am Gotham," and found the Dark Knight confronting a very unusual situation for him: The arrival of two superheroes with actual superpowers in Gotham City. The brother and sister duo called themselves Gotham and Gotham Girl. Though at first, they seemed like a welcome presence in Batman's life, the dark truth was soon revealed. Their magnificent powers were slowly killing them and driving them insane. Gotham did not survive that first story, while Batman went to great lengths over subsequent issues to save Gotham Girl's life.
Flash forward to the present, where Gotham Girl is allied with Bane now. Not only that — she's one of the main reasons he's able to control Gotham City at all. So, when we talk about a city controlled by Bane, you might ask, why doesn't Superman just come down and end it? Why doesn't the Justice League take it over?
Because they've got an atom bomb. Bane's not working with someone who can shove a staff in your face, he's working with someone who can punch Green Lantern into the next galaxy. But of course, the catch to that is, every time she uses her power she dies a little.
By using her that way, he's killing her. That wasn't the only meaning of the title, however. As Batman fought his way through Bane's South American stronghold — since the villain had been using Psycho Pirate for his own ends, to cure himself of addiction to the drug Venom — he revealed via internal narration that he had once attempted suicide.
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Featurette Promo TV Spot 1. TV Spot 2. TV Spot 3. Photos Top cast Edit. Tom Hardy Bane as Bane. Anne Hathaway Selina as Selina. The exact sequence of events when it comes to comic book continuity can be difficult to parse, especially when it comes to the lives of characters as prolific as Batman and his closest allies.
The issue was published in December, The first issue of Robin: Son of Batman begins in media res , where we find Damian in Bialya with his colossal dragon-bat, Goliath. Assigned as a Golden Age hero of Earth-Two from the time that the concept itself was established, until the folding in of both realities after Crisis on Infinite Earths , the rarely discussed Wildcat of Earth-One only made six appearances between and , and was never heard from again.
Five of these six appearances were written by Bob Haney, one of the main writers of the Bronze Age team-up book The Brave and the Bold.
In , Haney got the idea that he might be able to get some interesting adventures out of Wildcat and Batman. Why not an Earth-1 Wildcat? So, it was a very cold, calculating thing. So quite unceremoniously, the Earth-One Ted Grant was dropped after one last Batman team-up in Brave and the Bold , with no real sense of finality.
But in those early days, the action on the cover of these anthology comics rarely depicted anything that occurred within the comic itself. Go through each issue and a baseball is not to be seen within. In that game, Superman pitched for the League, and Batman was his catcher.
The then expendable Daggett was then killed by him, and his body was put into a dumpster. After Bruce met with Selina Kyle at her apartment about finding Bane, Selina offered to Bane to lead Batman into Bane's sewer lair in exchange for survival insurance. Bane and Batman began to fight each other. Batman fought valiantly to stop the terrorist, but the many years of isolation and lack of training had left the dark knight in a weakened state and unable to keep up with Bane's superior strength and speed.
Bane was attacked relentlessly, but the blows seemed to do no damage at all and only staggered him. Bane managed to easily and quite brutally overpower, outmaneuver, and outthink Batman. Bane then revealed that they were under Wayne Enterprises's secret armory and his plan to use the equipment to "bring justice".
Bane then countered Batman's last attack and slipped one of his vertebrae. He delivered a crippled Bruce Wayne to the Pit prison he himself was formerly imprisoned in, and stated that he wouldn't kill a man that did not fear death, as he intended to psychologically torture him with the slow demise of Gotham City with Bruce being unable to do a thing. Bane said that when Gotham becomes ashes, then Bruce would have his permission to die. Afterwards, Bane went to the Wayne Enterprises board room where he brought Miranda, Lucius Fox , and Douglas Fredericks from there to the Wayne Enterprises fusion reactor bunker and had Pavel modify the reactor into a nuclear bomb and he had the core removed so that it also became a time bomb.
In addition, he also had the police lured to the hideout to be trapped, and eventually detonated the explosives laced around the city, killing hundreds of people, including Mayor Anthony Garcia.
Anticipating that Gordon was still recovering at the hospital, he also sent two of his men to kill Gordon, although Gordon managed to kill them before either of them could lay a finger on him. He then brought the bomb out to the entire public, and after having Pavel explain its properties, he killed him in front of everyone.
Bane said that he had given the detonator to a citizen who would push the button if they didn't comply to his rules. In addition, in order to further ensure that no one outside of Gotham attempted to interfere, he also had Barsad inform the national guard that if they were to enter the city, or anyone escapes, the bomb would be detonated. After Bane returned to Gotham, he traveled with his men to Blackgate Prison.
There he read Gordon's planned confession, and undermined the validity of the Dent act as well as of Dent's heroic persona in front of the citizens of Gotham. Bane then ordered his men to storm the prison and "liberate" the prisoners, who were incarcerated under the "corrupt" laws of Gotham's elite. Bane declared martial law and proclaimed that the city now belonged to the people, handing them the power of "justice" over the "corrupt" Gotham elite that had "enslaved" them.
Bane's speech subsequently caused a series of riots led by Gotham's criminals and revolutionary working class members, who raided the homes of the wealthy and set-up a court presided by "Judge" Jonathan Crane , where the rich were sentenced to choose between either death or exile through the crossing of a deadly frozen river.
Bane himself continued to await the bomb's detonation while he observed Gotham's self-destruction. A few months into the occupation, Special Forces lead by Captain Jones infiltrated the city to gather intel on fighting back against Bane, even learning of the bombs true nature.
Bane then ordered their bodies hanged over the bridge for the world to see.
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