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Ok first thing -- I heartily agree that The Dark Knight Rises was it. I would be highly upset if WB decided to take the continuity Nolan established and made another movie with John Blake as Batman. The Batman story was meant to end in TDKR. Otherwise you lessen the impact of the trilogy as a whole.

BUT that doesn't mean the story couldn't continue in my mind movies.


Some notes:

- One thing I refused to include was the idea that tragedy seems to be Helena's drive in all her incarnations (even the BoP TV show!) And I'm adamant that I retain Bruce and Selina's happy ending. So if there is some kind tragedy that occurs in Helena's life, it will not involve her parents who will continue to live on in post-movie bliss.
- Bruce and Selina being in Italy at the end of TDKR really paved the way for them to adopt the 'Bertinelli' guise. Thus the nice amalgamation of Helena W. and Helena B.
- I dig the idea that she took her Mom and Pop's costume and essentially mashed them together. She took the Bat belt, somehow melded it to the Cat belt, and painted it purple. She nabbed her mom's thief suit because she didn't want to be weighed down by her father's armor. But she did adopt his Memory Cloth cape.
- Helena improved her mother's goggles (notice the new hotness infrared visor rotates up to shape her bat ears)
- NBC Community fans may recognize the audience members in panel 2.
- Helena, like her parents, has brown hair.
- Helena has way more facial features from her mom. (Admittedly because Christian Bale's sharp features may be dashing - but don't make for a very pretty girl)
- I like the idea Linda Hemming presented in an interview concering Bruce and Selina wearing colorful clothing. This signified they had made it.. that they had let go of their former lives. So in order to keep with that theme, Helena is going in the opposite direction. So in each panel, her outfit is getting darker.
- I kind of regret I didn't give her a more youthful body build. But I wanted to give her a physique that's somewhere between Catwoman and Batwoman. Plus I was watching the Olympics and was inspired a bit by the ever bad-ass Hope Solo..

In any case... have more post TDKR character takes. More to come. Hope you guys like this one.
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Mood: Joy ~Astro31345 May 13, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
This is great work, and a really good story! Just one question-who's her half brother?
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~kinjamin May 13, 2013  Professional Filmographer
Damian -- in this same gallery I did a Robin piece that hints that Talia faked her death and was pregnant
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~Astro31345 May 14, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh-cool! :D
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~T-R-E-V Apr 27, 2013
Third fave. Very cool backstory. :)
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~danthe93 Apr 27, 2013
I love it !!! I thought exactly the same .... If Bruces died and Selina used the "clean slate" they need news identities in Italy and immidiately came to my mind Helena ;)
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~benfrenZ Apr 22, 2013  New member
Those goggles are genius. Also, Bruce and Selina look like Daniel Day-Lewis and Selma Blair.
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Mood: Love ~hulkpants Apr 12, 2013
I LOVE THIS!!!! I agree that I would be very pissed off if WB continued the trilogy in some way or if Bale ended up in the Justice League movie or something, but wondering what happened after TDKRises is a blast. Of all these, this one is my favorite.
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~victor4782 Mar 10, 2013
I've always felt that Helena was subtly referenced in TDKR. Helena is known for her crossbow work and the first time Bruce meets Selina breaking into his safe he fires an arrow near her.
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Mood: Love *HelloIamGracie Feb 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I was not aware I had favorite-d this! Perhaps I glanced at it and thought it was a thing about Catwoman. This is a very good idea, I have a couple of your other comics saved that I hadn't gotten the chance (until now) to read (out of pure laziness, I'll admit). But this is wonderful! Though I would always hope that Selina and Bruce would have maybe two kids, but whatever. And I think that they would probably want to keep their first names, because it would be really hard adjusting to new first names and everything about them was erased from EVERYTHING (haha) by the Clean Slate. As long as they kept a low profile I feel like they could keep their first names, but Wayne is too big of a name to stick with. I agree that would have to change. And I did absolutely love the fact that they ended up together happily ever after in the end! It was so perfect, just like they are perfect for each other... the Joker may have said that the Batman "completed" him, but I think Selina completes Bruce perfectly! Lovely little comic!
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~mbembet Feb 2, 2013
you should direct the Batman reboot or continue Nolan trilogy with this story :)
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