Batman: Dark Age treads familiar ground in a backdrop inspired by the 1960s.
How does a"historical" Batman differ from the usual Batman that has haunted comics for over 80 years? The second in a planned trilogy of DC miniseries featuring classic DC characters, Mark Russell and powerhouse artists Mike and Laura Allred explore a Batman"born" in the 1960s in Batman: Dark Age.
Presented from the perspective of an elderly Bruce Wayne struggling with memory loss, Batman: Dark Age #1 recounts Bruce Wayne's early years as a miscreant rich boy adrift after the death of his parents. However, this version of Wayne wasn't present when his parents died, nor were his parents killed by Joe Chill but rather goons of the False Face Society, a mysterious cabal who run Gotham.
Batman: Dark Age was billed as a retelling of Batman's origins against a"backdrop of actual historical events." While it's clear that the creative team steeped their comic in the imagery of the 1960s, complete with urban decay, the concept of the"future city" and even the occasional Laurence Olivier movie, this is hardly a"historical" comic like the recently released The Bat-Man: First Knight series that frequently calls out actual historical events.
What's really intriguing about this comic book is how it relates to its predecessor Superman: Space Age. The presence of Pariah suggests a commonality, but the appearance of Wayne in the year 2030 suggests that this world isn't as doomed as the one seen in the previous miniseries.
Batman: Dark Age is a fun comic that tinkers with Batman's origin story, but doesn't break it. It's interesting to see a much more adrift Bruce Wayne and one changed not by the death of his parents but rather by the assumption that he's next. The series seems amusing and inventive, although it's too early to tell if it can truly stand out among countless other Batman origin stories that have appeared in media over the decades.
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