The Batman is a new vigilante that seems to be cleaning up crime in Gotham City - but at the expense of big business. As the rich elite grumble about lost revenue, footage emerges of Batman seemingly executing prisoners on a rooftop - but is it the real Batman… or an imposter?
Mattson Tomlin, one of the screenwriters on the upcoming R-Batz movie, writes a grittier, more realistic version of the early days of Batman in Batman: The Imposter #1, and it’s pretty dull stuff!
It’s just not that interesting to see familiar characters looking/behaving slightly differently than normal. Dr. Leslie Thompkins here is opposed to Bruce being Batman and has a no-nonsense attitude towards his behaviour, and there are new versions of Ventriloquist and Ratcatcher (an unusual addition), while Bruce looks to be around the same age as Robert Pattinson.
The “GCPD at odds with Batman” angle has been done many times before, as has the mistaken identity thing, and there’s nothing that enthralling about new character Detective Blair Wong as she sets out to uncover the identity of Batman - she’s just a regular decent cop character going through an investigation.
I’m not opposed to realistic takes on Batman (some of Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s books are among the best in the Batman canon), and this isn’t a terrible comic - it’s got good art from Andrea Sorrentino and it’s competently written overall - but Tomlin doesn’t write Batman in a unique or compelling way and the story really didn’t grab me. Batman: The Imposter #1 is a birruva snoozer unfortunately. Here’s hoping it’s not indicative of the upcoming Batman movie!
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