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It ’s no secret thatBatmanis more than just a duad of fist andsome batarangs- the dissemble vigilance man is also a skilled tec . And whileBruce Waynetends to employ those detective skill as the Dark Knight , inDetective Comics # 1027 , it ’s not just Batman who can work the closed book and take down the villains .
UnlikeSuperman ’s Clark Kent , Bruce Wayne is less “ modest - mannered ” and more the genteel , reclusive billionaire trope at best . cultured and philanthropic , but still masculine and capable , Bruce Wayne serves as the arrant mask for the cap crusader - the Don Diego forGotham ’s own Zorro . Sometimes , a vigilance man is n’t quite what ’s needed to take down the baddies , and Bruce Wayne must step in to the role of crime fighter .
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A rainy golf course is an unusual place for a meeting but , as it turns out , the perfect place to meet to do crime . InDetective Comics # 1027 , Bruce Wayne arrives before sunrise to football tee off with Mr. Steele . The criminal offence hirer wax poetic about strength and masculinity , pointing out the difference between himself and the perceived impuissance ofbillionaire Bruce Wayne . He drive Bruce Wayne to trade him a particular piece of holding , insisting that refusing would be a mistake . “ Mistakes happen , ” says Steele . “ bright man channels mistakes into chance . ” When Bruce Wayne holds his dry land , Steele pushes harder , telling him that he has the city council , cop , “ everyone you think would be on your side ” in his pouch . In answer , Wayne calmly asksthe ship’s officer at the other end of his capitulum piece if they pick up that .
Intercut with this pre - dawn game of wits is board after jury of Batman taking down the criminal underlings , the dirty pig , everyone under Mr. Steele ’s thumb . He perforate and threatens his way of life through the men in true Batman mode , but at the private golf game course meeting , there is none of that stylemark aggression . It ’s not Batman who use up down Steele himself , butcivilian Bruce Waynewith a patient sort of Pimpernel poise . He dally the criminal quietly , have himself be perceived as just soft enough to allow Mr. Steele to believe he is stiff . It ’s this playing on Steele ’s hubris that is the crime hirer ’ inevitable downfall .
We only see one , brief exercise of vehemence - if it can be called that - at the end of the story , as Mr. Steele runs from the approach police . watch him run , Bruce Waynepicks up his golf club and hurls it at Steele , trip the man and allow the law to turn back him . “ Might get into the biz after all , ” he muses after .
Detective Comics # 1027is by Matt Fraction , Brian Michael Bendis , Peter J. Tomasi , Grant Morrison , Dan Jurgens , Mariko Tamaki , Greg Rucka , Scott Snyder , Marv Wolfman , Kelly Sue Deconnick , Tom King , Jim Cheung , José L. García López , Lee Bermejo , Jamal Campbell , Dan Mora , Ivan Reis , Emanuela Lupacchino , Riley Rossmo , Eduardo Risso , Chip Zdarsky , David Marquez , and Chris Burnham . It ’s available now .
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