Scott Snyder Reveals Batman: Zero Year Details
Batman: Zero Year
CBR sits down with Scott Snyder, writer of Batman, to reveal his thoughts and ideas of what it takes to create an origin story for the New 52 Batman, since so many other characters have had their origins explained so far in the new DC Universe relaunch.
This is going to be a lot more than simply retelling the classic “Year One” by Miller and Mazzucchelli, but with the addition of new ideas and aspects that they feel can be incorporated into the new Batman universe.
Snyder describes his ideas like this: “I had this story in mind that I wanted to do for a while that’s an earlier story that shows Batman’s first adventures as Batman in a way that’s totally different than anything you’ve seen. I know it sounds corny, but it’s true. So the project became, you know what, let me do it and try to reclaim parts of “Year One” and work around “Year One” or make sure that I show “Year One.” What happened was it just became clear that James Jr. is six, Selina Kyle’s history is different. Me trying to reclaim those pieces and put them in there would just make me be writing a worse “Year One” for all the fans out there. I’m not going to be able to write “Year One” as good as “Year One” ever — or a book that’s as good as “Year One.” But what I can do is say, “Let’s do something new, let’s do something special, let’s do something our own and tell an origin we’re going to give everything we have.” Everything we have, like sleepless nights, everything we have and say, “Here’s something that’s completely different.” It keeps the core stuff there — Joe Chill, the alley, the bat, the absolute core things — but everything else on the book is something you have never, ever seen. The book is designed to be like, you open it to page one and you say, “God damn. What is happening?” Literally, when you open it up to page one. I promise you, you’ll be like, “What is happening?” and for every page to be that way, where you turn it and you’re like, “Oh, my God! I’ve never seen the origin like that.””
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