Lucas’s Reviews > Before the Batman: An Original Movie Novel > Status Update

in. The book itself wasn’t “anything special,” but because I carried it with me through such a formative phase of life, it is special. I enjoyed it, but also I don’t know if I like how heroic it characterizes Bruce at this point in time. I suppose it’s reasonable to show that he is a genuinely good person underneath his trauma, but I don’t know if it leaned enough into the vengeance that propelled him.