Batman is crazy. Any man who dresses up like a bat to fight crime for as long as he has, endangered children and shuns normal relationships is certifiable. Many have questioned whether Batman is sane, long before Morrison came onto the scene with "Arkham Asylum". Frank Miller and Alan Moore were among the first in the comics feild to question whether or not he is insane. Professionals in the mental health industry would question his sanity as well. The man watched his parents die in front of him and this would cause a severe mental trauma and affect his development. That's why at the start of "R.I.P.", Jezebel Jet sums up who Bruce Wayne is and the Joker did as well in "Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker".

Jezebel: "It was so brave of you, Bruce. So ingenious, to make yourself into the great dark knight who wasn't there for you when you needed him. But all this...is a disturbed little boy's response to his parents death...you're thirty years old."

Joker: "Behind all the sturm and bat-o-rangs, you're just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy! It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic."



A lot of writers are fans of that era. They all grew up in that era and tend to write like it.


It's not an alternate universe. It's a piece of fiction. He's not ignoring the other writers when he's using their work. Nor does he think he is better than them.


DC isn't pushing him to do this. He came up with this story on his own and brought it to DC. They're just letting him do it because he has a passion for Batman and his work sells well.

Two is because Morrison just cannot get over Batman evolving in the 1970s-1990s with reboots that discarded Morrison's precious era of Batman comics, so he wants to get destroy that Batman and bring back his loony era.

He's not bringing Batman back to there. He's embracing everything that is Batman from 1939 through 2008, using it to move forward. DC never retconned out the stuff from the 50's and 60's. The only things that were retconned out was the 70's and portions of the 80's. "Strange Apprations"? Retconned out by O'Neil. Living in the penthouse when Dick went to college? Retconned out by O'Neil. "Son Of The Demon"? Retconned out. Those things were retconned out. All Morrison and Brubaker did was bring those back.