Batman just tells him that "you're just going to have to sell it." And that's the point, it's a different world. And Batwing points out that he's not really sure that a man dressed up as a bat is really going to scare the average criminal in Africa. In the first couple of pages Batwing is talking about the fact that one of the things Batman has to do is instill fear. Yeah, if you consider that we're coming from a starting place that this is a Batman who lost his parents to AIDS and was a boy soldier. Do you see this book as being darker than the Batman books which are already renowned as being the darkest in comics? The level of violence and sort of the timbre of the culture is different than Batman where the worst thing he has to deal with is the Joker or criminals killing a whole bunch of people, but on a sliding scale that isn't as bad as warlords abducting children and putting guns in their hands. The fact that he lost his parents to AIDS and never knew them is one piece of that puzzle. It's usually that they have rather sort of tragic beginnings. It's not like Batwing was out there doing pre-law for a while, starting his own practice, and then decided "Hey, I'll put on a costume and start beating up bad guys." Batman himself and most of the other members of the Bat family come from tragic beginnings. It rang kind of true to us especially in the Bat universe. And there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 million AIDS orphans out there. In most of the regions, one-fifth of the population is HIV positive or living with AIDS. From where we sit, we're just trying to be true to life in Africa right now. Which some folks might call that politics. On what could be considered the more political bent is that Batwing is an AIDS orphan. There are jungles and rural areas, but it's not going to be that kind of story.Īre there other political touches to the book? And with that I should say this isn't Lion King, we're not gonna have Batwing running around the jungles with animals or things like that. So we thought that combining the really over the top super-hero elements along with the very established politicized environment of Africa could make for great story telling. We have men in Africa that call themselves warlords who kidnap children and put guns in their hands and hop them up on meth and have them go kill people. Both as a straight up super-hero story, this is a guy flying around in armor with a big bat insignia on his chest fighting other guys in other crazy outfits, but it's set in Africa which is this highly politicized landscape where we don't really have to come up with super villains.
Africa as a landscape is somewhat untouched in the DC universe in a significant way and we thought Batwing was just the kind of character to deliver these fresh stories.
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