Batman's Shadow Process

Part two of the first Batman/The Shadow issue is gorgeous. There's still time to pick up #1 and catch up. I've always loved team-ups with Batman, the Dynamic Duo (Batman and Robin), the Dysfunctional Duo (Batman and Jason Todd), and the one he trusts the most (Batman and Superman), and this team up is interesting. Batman is known to be the epitome of human mental and physical fitness, at times it hard to remember that he is fully human. The Shadow carries amazing abilities such as eerie voice-throwing and mastered stealth that pull him apart from the average human as well. In part two, Bruce is trying to find the killer who murdered an Arkham employee. The series falls into a thriller genre, opening with a murder from the first issue, and The Shadow is attempting to steer Batman into the correct direction. He sees all. …show more content…
He values secret identity and protects it more than anything, and so for a character to repeat this name, who isn't a family member or a close friend, it places power over Bruce: "Are you so sure, Bruce?" "Not this killer, Bruce." It's something intimate. Orlando and Snyder do something interesting here, by showing that The Shadow knows Bruce Wayne, they immediately create a connection and bond. After all, how many people in Batman's life knows his secret identity and not form a strong relationship with him (including evil, toxic relationships). In addition, The Shadow is a character that kills, they're both vigilantes, but that's a major difference. It looks like a slow burn, from distrust to possibly trust? It feels like their relationship is going to be a slow burn. It'll take a few tries to gain Batman's complete trust, and the Shadow does not accomplish this by the end of this

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