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ICollection: DARK DETECTIVE II 1-6I
The Dark Knight, the Film
Batman: Dark Detective II
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| When DC editor Joey Cavalieri asked Marshall Rogers and me to do a sequel to our "definitive" run, we leapt at the chance - and we had a few ideas of our own. One was that we two weren't enough - we needed Terry Austin on inks, and one of our old letterers, John Workman, too. We wanted the whole team. Another idea was that we couldn't keep calling our efforts "the Englehart-Rogers Batman" (see idea #1) or "the definitive Batman"; we had to have a brand name. The first run had been in Detective Comics, so "Detective" was easy - then I tried for weeks to think of something that sounded better than "Dark" to go with it. But I never could, so "Dark Detective" it is.
The challenge here was to do something that was as good as, but not the same as, the first run. Call me crazy, but I wasn't worried about matching a classic; I was concerned with not repeating myself. First, I had to bring back Silver St Cloud, and not undo her story thus far. Second, I had to give the Joker a scheme as much fun as the laughing fish. Since this was all happening nine months before a Presidential election, the concept embodied on the cover of #1 suggested itself. And then, as the real-life campaign unfolded, I found people using very similar arguments... In time, I also found that Warners had used this run as the basis for The Dark Knight film without telling me. I used to talk about each arc as a movie, and I was righter than I knew. The full story on that is here. |
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