{"id":4774,"date":"2011-10-05T08:41:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2011-10-05T08:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:41:42","slug":"but-what-if-im-the-bats-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4774","title":{"rendered":"but what if i&#8217;m the bats guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was deep in preparation for Dragon*Con this year, artist Katie Cook had a flash of insight: what if Bruce Wayne actually thought he was a bat, aided and abetted by Alfred? It all started with a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>[blackbirdpie id=&#8221;103272093067657216&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>From there Katie soon had a rogue&#8217;s gallery of villains from an actual scarecrow in a field to a choose-your-own-adventure book. It&#8217;s one of the best Batman pitches I&#8217;ve read in a long time. Plus there were drawings!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cook02.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing of Alfred agreeing that Bruce is a bat\" title=\"Katie Cook&#039;s Batman\" width=\"450\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cook02.jpg 450w, https:\/\/granades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cook02-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2011\/08\/18\/katie-cook-batman\/\">Comics Alliance<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2011\/08\/16\/katie-cooks-batman\/\">Newsarama<\/a> have the full list of tweets. Katie later created a <a href=\"http:\/\/katiecandraw.typepad.com\/katiecandrawcom_internet_\/2011\/08\/bats-katies-idea-for-batman-that-will-never-be.html\">three-panel thumbnail of BATS<\/a>. Seriously, go read this. 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