Originally posted by Galan007
So Bane's not on Venom anymore... He's psychologically unstable... And he's randomly walking around naked in a room full of dudes? 😑*sighs* I hope DC doesn't f*ck him up. ermm
I'm not surprised he's psychologically unstable with what he had to deal with for 17 years straight. King said it perfectly:
Bane comes out of a conversation I had with Andy Khouri when he was my editor on Omega Men. He said, “Have you ever taken a close look at Bane?†I said, “Yeah, when I was a kid, I really liked that story, it was really frightening,†and he was like, “No, I mean have you ever really looked at that Chuck Dixon issue with his actual origin? Read it again, it’s the most ****ed up thing ever.â€
It wasn’t just that he was born in a prison, it was that he was born and stayed in this cell for 17 years, and every night, it flooded and he almost drowned, and he had to tread water and eat raw fish. Just the willpower of surviving, that his origin is like Conan’s origin, pushing that wheel until he’s the only one left.
Andy totally sold me on that origin, and I realized that this character, the reason he was frightening and cool as a kid, was that he actually could beat Batman in a way that the Riddler, the Joker, the Penguin and Mr. Freeze, none of them will ever beat Batman on any real level. Bane’s actually done it and could do it again.
I wanted to read a comic where the two of them faced off, and one of them had to die. I was like, “Wait a second, I can do that. I write Batman.â€
