Depiction Of Childhood Tragedy And Innocence In Comics

<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but&nbsp;<strong>blinding</strong>.&rdquo; &mdash; Bane,&nbsp;<em>The Dark Knight Rises</em></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*iCLNrRkWnR1voJAd_KrKTA.jpeg" style="height:1064px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Art by Tim Sale from Batman Rebirth (2016)</p> <p>A character in a comic book can be as shallow or as deep as the writer wants it to be. But it&rsquo;s all in the readers&rsquo; hands to interpret the details, to see the depth. Here, I&rsquo;m going to focus on a single character that in my opinion often gets overlooked, overshadowed even, by more popular villains like The Joker. I&rsquo;m going to take a closer look at&nbsp;<strong>Bane</strong>, a personal favorite character of mine, in any medium.</p> <p><a href="https://pulledapartflatwhite.medium.com/the-tragedy-and-innocence-of-bane-bc74f54ce91a"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>