![]() Still an orphan, still hugely wealthy, and still being looked after by Alfred, this Bruce is eighteen years old and trapped by the world he has been born into. ![]() Remember her, she’s pretty important as we go along. One of their group, Madeleine, is captured by the Gotham Police though all is not what it seems. The prologue introduces us to a group called the Nightwalkers, some sort of class terrorist group out to target the wealthy. Marie Lu probably retained a degree of editorial say, but this graphic novel adaptation was written by Stuart Moore, no slouch in the comic book genre himself. I like to think of them as Elseworlds books, these characters do exist but on Earth-66 or Earth-Young Adult. ![]() Bruce did feature in the Selina Kyle book, though all these DC Ink takes are self contained and not connected, so ‘that’ Bruce isn’t ‘this’ Bruce. As these books, all of which range from good to very good, feature primarily female characters, it didn’t hurt to throw a male lead in there too. The higher ups at DC obviously liked it a lot and felt its story of a young Bruce Wayne finding his feet fit perfectly in their Young Adults line of books. Batman: Nightwalker was actually written as a prose novel by Marie Lu, for the DC Icons series of books. ![]() The title of this graphic novel may seem familiar to some, and it should. Written by Stuart Moore, Marie Lu | Art by Chris Wildgoose | Published by DC Ink | Format: Paperback, 208pp ![]()
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