![]() I thought it would be really interesting. The platonic ideal of Batman, as well as the number of specific Batmans over the years. I though that if I didn't do it, someone else would and mess it up. It was one of those strange combinations. As Hollywood mines comic books and fantasy favorites for the big screen, Gaiman's imaginative works seem like a mother lode for cross-platform hits. ![]() Gaiman's extensive bibliography is filled with commercially successful comics, novels, prose, screenplays and more, and is decorated with Hugo, Nebula, Stoker and Newberry awards. Taken together, they are surreal, hilarious and poignant riffs on Batman's back story, told at light-speed by a master storyteller. Gaiman's twin finales will be bound in hardcover and released this July. The story line picks up where Grant Morrison's execution of the Dark Knight in Batman R.I.P. The end result - a two-part series called Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? - began with the February issue of Batman and wraps Wednesday with issue No. "But I ended up saying, 'Of course I'm there!" ![]() "I found myself saying things like, 'I don't have time' and 'I have sworn to never write mainstream comics again,'" the 48-year-old literary titan told by phone from his Addams Family-style residence in Minneapolis. ![]()
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