I was excited to check out Batman and did so with Rebirth #2 and it just doesn't sit well with me. Batman seems like a dick. He treats everyone like they are beneath him. First he treats Gotham and Gotham Girl that way. It's strange how Batman acts like he has some sort of copyright or as though he is the only one who can fight crime when he first shows up. He definitely feels as though he is the authority on the matter and on that subject, he does seem like a completely authoritarian dude. And yes, one in which a rich white dude decided to put a lot of money into making himself a superhero and with that comes all the worst privileges.
He also treats Alfred like he is beneath him as well. And with how Alfred calls Bruce, Master Bruce is completely ridiculous. How does someone prefer that someone who works for them call them Master like that? The only other person I know of like that is Master Blaster from Mad Max and that dude was a dick too.
I've heard some say that Batman has changed and that he is so unbelievably authoritarian now and that along with so much else, he does just reek of it. This is the first Batman comic that I've checked out in a while and I get the impression that pretty much any comic of his that I check out, is going to have the same boring formula. I was expecting something more than he fights someone, treats everyone like they are beneath him, has Alfred treating him like the man-child that he is, and disappears.
And that he has such a ridiculous mystique about him, especially with the disappearing part, and everyone just goes along with it. The part where he introduces Gotham and Gotham Girl to Gordon and then just disappears? There should be a reason for him to disappear like that. You don't just do it for no reason. Bad writing where they want him to have a certain mystique but there should be an actual reason for why he does this. Does he not like follow-up questions? Does he not want to be followed even though if he were to just tell them that he has to go along with maybe a "goodbye, see you later", I doubt they would infringe on his personal boundaries and follow him. There is just no reason for it other than just being completely contrived for the sake of giving him this kind of mystique. Is Batman the Kanye West of super heroes? The absurd contrived thing along with treating everyone else like they are beneath him seems to suggest this? Not to mention the spoiled rich dude thing.
Yes, he's bizarrely authoritarian with everyone, another rich white dude with all of his expensive toys, is supposedly so dark, and the contrived disappearing thing which adds to his silly mystique is just too ridiculous. Maybe I should check out more of his comics because hopefully this is not all that encapsulates Batman. Such an unlikable dick, it's like they decided to make him how Christian Bale is in real life.
I usually don't like to rant like this but this just irks me, lol.
