Since King and his artist collaborators took on the job of continuing Batman’s core comic book title from the legendary duo of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (who themselves took over from an equally legendary turn on the book from Grant Morrison) he’s been clear about what he wanted to achieve. But Bruce remains on the side of holding out hope. The line feels like a bit of a self-deprecating note on King’s own fondness for putting his characters through the emotional ringer, whether in Batman, Mister Miracle, or Heroes in Crisis. It’s just pain and misery all the way down.” “I’m telling you,” he says, “With this guy in the lead. The score is very close, and Chuck is certain that the Knights will be defeated once again. These are the first of many callbacks to the earlier eras of King’s run, and they plant a tongue firmly in cheek as Bruce and Chuck discuss the game. The bar just so happens to be Porky’s, first seen in King’s Eisner Award earning Batman/Elmer Fudd Special, a noir-tinged one-shot comic about. There, he strikes up a conversation with a fellow football fan, who just happens to be Chuck Brown, aka Kite-Man. Bruce Wayne has stopped into a Gotham City dive bar to catch the end of a hometown football game. The issue itself is interlaid in a framing device that clearly takes place after the resolution of Batman’s battle with his father-from-another-timeline.
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