A detail of the two-page origin of Batman, painted for Batman: War on Crime, 1999
The chief distinction of Alex's version of the Dark Knight Detective might not seem so radical to people used to watching the Batman movies of the eighties and nineties, but to avid fans of the classic comics version of the character, his modification is pretty drastic; you can now look Batman right in the eye. Since 1939, the Caped Crusader's eyes had always been glowing white slits, as inscrutable as they were fear-inducing. But they do not translate into the logic of the "real" world that Alex imagines.
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