2 isn't necessarily as welcoming to new readers as books like Scott Snyder's Batman or Pete Tomasi's Batman and Robin. If we’re to take anything from Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated it’s that we can each be our own Batman, being strong when we can, and trusting in our own Bat-Families to help us along when we can’t.The problem is that, being the continuation of such a long saga, Batman Inc Vol. In the end, this acceptance by Batman is something readers can relate to and learn themselves-to accept that whatever we’re feeling might never fully fade, but we need to keep going regardless. This again shows Batman to be a universal hero because he embodies the idea that grief isn’t something that leaves you, it’s something everyone carries with them.Īs Bruce Wayne muses in issue #13, perhaps Batman will never die, but that just means he has to keep on going, carrying his grief and loss alongside him. The hole is his grief, and it has never left him. In Batman Incorporated #13, Morrison’s finale, Bruce diagnoses this hole as how he felt after his parent’s death and how he now feels after Damian’s death. Throughout Morrison’s run on Batman, Bruce ruminates again and again on “ the hole in everything” that he feels in his life.
This devastates Bruce, who spirals and is only helped by his extended Bat-Family. In Batman Incorporated volume 2 #8 by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham, Damian Wayne is killed by his own clone. The conclusion of Batman Incorporated only makes the theme of loss that much more poignant. As these characters find the motivation toward heroism in their own losses, readers can understand that that the emotional struggles felt by Batman are more universal than is sometimes suggested in the comics. But by the series’ conclusion, Batman has suffered his own terrible loss, that of his son, Damian Wayne. The first volume in particular deals with these various heroes’ origins, and details some of the struggles that not only lead them towards crimefighting, but toward becoming Batmen.
Released over two volumes between 20, Batman Incorporated sees Batman branching out of Gotham City, tasking heroes new and old with becoming their countries' own national Batmen. It’s something he carries with him, and something that readers carry with themselves too. Batman’s grief isn’t something unique and fictional, it’s very human and real. Throughout Batman’s history, Bruce Wayne has been defined by the loss of his parents, but the series Batman Incorporated by Grant Morrison demonstrates that Batman’s experience with grief is what makes him relatable.
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