If You Were Offered A Chance To Write A Single Issue Batman Story, What Would You Write?

If you were offered a chance to write a single issue batman story, what would you write?

Okay, presuming this is in a main book like Detective Comics itself, rather than any particular character’s solo? 

I mean, obviously the instinct is to say a story about Steph, or about Cass, but honestly? What I’d really love to write? 

I’d love to write a down-to-Earth ordinary people of Gotham story. Some ordinary person; I’d probably go with a single mom, poor, working some menial job, living in some crappy apartment, constantly stressed out.

I’d follow her around and show Gotham from her perspective. Look at how, despite the money being poured into it by Bruce Wayne and other wealthy individuals, the system itself isn’t working, she can’t trust the police, and things are hard. See the rough situation she’s finding herself in. 

She gets mugged, or something similar, and she’s angry and bitter, and she ends up breaking down. And then her daughter comes out. Wearing some sort of shirt with a Robin logo on it, and she tells her mom that it’s going to be okay. 

And then there’s a knock at the window, and it’s one of the Batkids. I’d probably make it Spoiler!Steph because I’m me, but it could easily be Cass or Duke or any of the others. They’re bringing back her wallet because they caught the mugger who robbed her, and ask if she’s hurt. She’s not, and they’re gone before she can say thank you. 

She checks the wallet. 

That money wasn’t there when she got robbed. It’s stuffed full of cash. 

And we see her next day. And we see things are just a little better. We see her help out someone who’s in a pinch. We see her smile, just a little more. We see her get the mail and her building is being bought by Wayne Enterprises, who’re going to be remodeling, but they promise her rent won’t go up. 

We see, bit by bit, how the Bats are making things better. Because I think we lose that a lot, in superhero stories. We joke about how Bruce Wayne should be able to solve all of Gotham’s problems just by paying his taxes, and superheroes themselves question if they help a lot. 

And I’d want to show a story where the answer is a clear and definitive yes. I’d want to tell a story where we see the good that Bruce and all of the Bats are doing, both in and out of costume, and how that positive effect is spreading, even though it’s not fixing everything right away. 

And at the end of the story, we see her reading a book to her daughter, and through the window, we can see the Bat Symbol, and the hint of a cape, as if someone’s checking in on them. 

Also I’d love it to be illustrated by Mitch Gerads, because I really liked his style on Mister Miracle. Or like, David Aja from Fraction’s Hawkeye. Something like that. 

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