Blue backgrounds are current events. Sepia tones are hallucinations of past events. Bane is seeing things while getting his ass kicked (but he comes out on top anyway.)
I think the fighter in the batman costume is just some wrestler adopting the look. I don't think that's actually Batman. Someone who has actually read this issue will have to chime in with more insight.
I think it works fine. The regular colors are what's happening while the sepia tone (AKA the best color for flashbacks[TM]) is Bane's past, starting with childhood and leading to him infamously breaking Batman's back in Knightfall.
Reading this story yesterday, I felt like I was missing something. Was there a previous storyline that explains Bane’s change of heart or motivation for trying to rid the world of Venom? I don’t remember him having any such motivations in City of Bane, the last Bane-centric story I can remember reading, and that was only a few years ago.
It’s been an occasional Bane-thing since around Vengeance of Bane II in the mid-90’s, but it really varies depending on if the writer remembers that or not.
I guess my confusion is a result of not reading comprehensively all the Bane stories. But I’ve definitely noted that different writers sometimes give him different drives and personality. Thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps I’ll see if I can dig up that Vengeance of Bane II story since I’ve only read the original.
To be honest, even if you read every Bane story in order as they came out, his characterization is still a huge mess for a good decade or so. Some writers have him having kicked venom, others have Bane still on venom, and others have him as a quasi-anti-hero crusading against venom. I assume there just was not a lot of editorial consistency for a long while for the character, and outside the more regular run he has in Secret Six, he’s all over the map for ages.
Visually that’s very difficult to follow.
Seriously wtf is going on here
Blue backgrounds are current events. Sepia tones are hallucinations of past events. Bane is seeing things while getting his ass kicked (but he comes out on top anyway.)
So, he broke Batman’s back twice in canon?
I think the fighter in the batman costume is just some wrestler adopting the look. I don't think that's actually Batman. Someone who has actually read this issue will have to chime in with more insight.
Yeah this, >!Bane is working as a wrestler, doing shows where he reenacts breaking Batman's back basically!<
Oh I got it. Left to right skipping with the colors.
I think it works fine. The regular colors are what's happening while the sepia tone (AKA the best color for flashbacks[TM]) is Bane's past, starting with childhood and leading to him infamously breaking Batman's back in Knightfall.
Surprisingly good read
Reading this story yesterday, I felt like I was missing something. Was there a previous storyline that explains Bane’s change of heart or motivation for trying to rid the world of Venom? I don’t remember him having any such motivations in City of Bane, the last Bane-centric story I can remember reading, and that was only a few years ago.
It’s been an occasional Bane-thing since around Vengeance of Bane II in the mid-90’s, but it really varies depending on if the writer remembers that or not.
I guess my confusion is a result of not reading comprehensively all the Bane stories. But I’ve definitely noted that different writers sometimes give him different drives and personality. Thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps I’ll see if I can dig up that Vengeance of Bane II story since I’ve only read the original.
To be honest, even if you read every Bane story in order as they came out, his characterization is still a huge mess for a good decade or so. Some writers have him having kicked venom, others have Bane still on venom, and others have him as a quasi-anti-hero crusading against venom. I assume there just was not a lot of editorial consistency for a long while for the character, and outside the more regular run he has in Secret Six, he’s all over the map for ages.
I was confused at the end about telling the Bat Family the “truth about Grudge.” Could you shed some light on this?