http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/Batman/Morrison/Morrison_Batman.html
He terrifies the guilty but he has great compassion for the weak and the downtrodden and will lay his life on the line for anybody who's in trouble. He's a master of yoga and meditation who has as much control over his body and his feelings as any human. He has a wider range of experiences than most people will dream of in ten lifetimes.
I swear, he gets it. No wonder he always writes the character so well. Morrison slams Miller, though. Not about All* Batman either, but about Miller's upcoming "Holy terror, Batman!" graphic novel, which pits the Dark Knight against Al Quaeda. I don't agree with what Morrison says here in the least, but it's still interesting to see him go off on another creator like that. Still, I doubt Frank'll be losing any sleep giving a damn what somebody else thinks, though. 
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Very good read. Thanks, Drunken Fist. Here's some of my favorite quotes:
So, while I won't pretend we all live on Sunnybrook Farm, I don't think its appropriate - particularly in trying times - to present our fictional heroes as unsmiling vengeance machines... A sour-faced, sexually-repressed, humorless, uptight, angry, and all-round grim 'n' gritty Batman would be more likely to join the Taliban surely? He sure stuck it to 'im.  And for the most part, I'd have to agree. I remember Stan Lee talked about how having super heroes actually going in and destroying the Axis back in the day would've been in bad taste, too. I still can't help but be curious how Miller's story will turn out.
Rather than a basically unhinged individual who was driven mad , bad, and pointy-eared by the death of his parents, I saw Batman more and more as someone who had saved his own sanity by doing the one crazy thing that actually allowed him to turn his loss into something positive and proactive. I think he's really got the whole picture. I've complained about the overly grim Batman before, and Morrison's fresh approach makes perfect sense. It's especially great how he's able to fit it into continuity rather than attempting to simply forget what's happened in recent years.
It seems more 'realistic' to imagine Batman as a hardcore fightin' man who wouldn't even notice his injuries until long after the fight was over, so no more of that 'MY BACK SPLINTERS INTO A THOUSAND SHARDS OF AGONIZED BONE. HE'S GOOD. HE'S YOUNG. HE'S TOUGHER AND YOUNGER THAN ME. AND TOUGHER. DID I MENTION TOUGHER ? MUSN'T BLACK OUT...' Again, a funny and intelligent stab at Miller.
I figure Bruce does whatever it takes to maintain his health and stay stress free and fit. He would see sex as just another form of exercise with proven health and efficiency benefits. I was always a bit curious of this myself - how far he actually goes with the whole playboy get-up. It makes sense, but I'm kinda glad they don't really show or suggest these kinds of activities in the comics.
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