'We Can Be Heroes' blank cover
STORY: Scott Snyder. So this is all happening six years ago? I thought it was five. Anyway, Bruce seems
to be playing vigilante without the Batman disguise. He runs into the Red Hood Gang during a
bank robbery. It then seems to become the story of the Batarang origin and a bit with
Commissioner Gordon...then...the story continues in 2013...what? You don't finish the story but
you put in a backup? WTF?! So the backup is the origin of the Batsignal, kinda, and we see Tim,
Jason, Dick and Barbara. Tim is some genius who is getting rid of his middle school principal.
Jason is a small time crook who gets mistaken for stopping the crime. Dick is stopping some purse
thief as he performs in a circus as a Flying Grayson. Barbara is with her dad on the roof as he
turns on the Batsignal. The big finish is that they all look up, and appear to get inspired by the
signal, to follow the path we all know they will one day take. Problem, they all look to be the
same age. Tim Drake is about to finish middle school so that makes him thirteen at the time and
eighteen now, good. Jason Todd looks the same age but in the old DC he is much younger than
Dick, and in the New 52 he seems about the same age? Dick is supposed to be much older
than the other two but he feels one or two years older...what? Then we have Barbara. She is
supposed to be Dicks age but Batgirl looks much younger...what? Thank you James Tynion IV
for that headache. Andy Clarke did a good job on the art though for this backup story.
ART: Greg Capullo. Greg is Greg. He is a veteran artist and he is solid. His Bruce was much better here
than in the regular book but his Commissioner Gordon (Lieutenant in this case) is goofy looking.
FINAL FILE: Buy, Read, Bag it!...but be ready to be confused.
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