Batman may have entered the world in 1939, but he’s been reborn many times since. It’s inevitable that creations of such ripe vintage will outlive their creators, and thus be passed down from one set of heads to the next. Each time, these ideas are reconstructed in a slightly different way, with some new style or status quo. The Court Of Owls, which provides with its primary villain, is the result of just such a rebirth. The version of Batman Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo inherited in 2011 had spent several years battling with demons, ghosts and space gods across space and time under writer Grant Morrison. They wound him back to a more Gotham-based crimefighter, and in
