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    The novel‚ Wayne of Gotham by Tracy Hickman explores the ancestry of Bruce Wayne while utilizing his detective skills. I chose this book because Batman is my favorite character and I think that the graphic novels along with books paint a broader picture of the character. Batman is after all‚ the world’s “best detective” in the DC Comics world. The story starts in the cave with Bruce Wayne’s grandfather teaching his son Thomas Wayne to be a man by shooting the creatures of the night “bats” with a

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    suppressing the inner voices that call out for Batman to return the world of fighting crime. As the Mutants rapidly consume Gotham City with violence‚ Bruce Wayne’s internal struggle to restrain Batman becomes increasingly harder. With police officers failing to protect their citizens‚ Bruce Wayne is faced with the decision of unleashing Batman to save Gotham City or letting the city become overrun by the Mutants. In both the graphic novel written by Frank Miller and movie directed by Jay Oliva titled

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    critique and on the mental and social impacts of our society Miller creates a familiar world in the imaginary place of Gotham. Gotham has always represented New York‚ but in Batman Year one the similarities are more obvious. The police department is filled with corruption‚ and there are numerous gangs on the streets. Miller wanted to show a world that mirrored 80s New York city. This allowed for readers to sympathies with the characters‚ because they had more common struggles Mental impact: James

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    in Gotham city to be coming the city’s biggest hero they ever had. In the last move of the Dark knight Bruce Wayne defeated the joker but lost what he though was most important to him his love Rachel‚ Bruane Wayne (Batman) took the fall for Harvey Dent murder so that the city would have an icon and could live up to. In the Dark Knight Rises Bruce Wayne is after losing himself and think’s that there is nothing else out there for him. It takes till Bane come’s and starts destroying Gotham City‚ for

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    he is the villain to Batman. He is the guy who watches over and protects the people and Gotham City. The Joker uses buildings‚ streets and inhabitants as his own personal experiment by destroying it. Most importantly his goal is to throw Gotham City into chaos‚ so he can say that nobody will be safe as long as he’s in control of the city. In the movie he develops a four step plan‚ so he can make sure the city stays under his power. The first part of his plan‚ was to get

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    Knight Rises‚ the architecture in Gotham city was featured in opposite ways before the revolution‚ in the time of Harvey Dent‚ and after the revolution that was led by Bane. Harvey Dent was a symbol of justice in Gotham city. He was featured in The Dark Knight. He was a lawyer who made the “Dent Act” which is a law that helps imprison almost all of Gotham’s criminals. In his time and after the Dent Act and how the act “cleaned up the streets of Gotham”‚ Gotham city was seen as a symbol of justice where

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    The main conflicts in the world of The Dark Knight Returns revolve around escalating crime in Gotham city and forces of the authority attempting to control it. The authority should be a moral force and represent justice. The figures that represent the authority should be selfless and work only to promote the integrity of law and order. Authority proves to be contradictory in Miller’s novel as the authoritative figures express qualities of vigilantism and overall moral ambiguity. The first example

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    and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. The city was crushed under the weight of the

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    Batman. A young boy witnesses his mother and father killed by a mugger and vows to rid his city of evil. Batman has been a longstanding comic book ran since 1939 when Detective Comics #27 presented a man in a bat-suit ridding Gotham City of evil. Batman has always been a character of the times‚ using high tech gadgets to aid him in his war on crime. Yet‚ in 1989 DC Comics published A Tale of the Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Instead of showing Batman in the (time of publication’s) present‚ writer Brian

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    dog” before he was killed. This drives Wayne out of Gotham City‚ to a Bhutanese Prison. 2. Refusal Of Call Saddened and downtrodden‚ our hero (Bruce Wayne) sits and a grimy Asian prison not wanting to take responsibility for anyone‚ or anything. Bruce likes to fight men who are already locked up‚ because they have nothing to lose. He feels that this technique of practicing will make him a stronger man. Bruce does not want to return to Gotham and cleanse it of the corruption of crime; he feels

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