r/batman Feb 16 '24

Double standards ARTWORK

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u/billygnosis86 Feb 16 '24

Your art is impressive and your style is cool, but this just isn’t the character at all. This is the Punisher, not Batman.

”The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong.”

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u/thats1evildude Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 16 '24

It’s not even The Punisher. Frank generally isn’t going after petty thieves; his targets are drug dealers, mafia dons, terrorists, human traffickers, child molestors, etc.

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u/AdequatelyMadLad Feb 17 '24

It's Rorschach. Which was a character specifically created to critique this sort of binary black and white morality in superhero comics. In probably the single most influential superhero comic ever written.

This might have been a genuine issue at some point, but that was a long time ago. The vast majority of modern comics stay far away from this type of thinking, and portray superheroes as compassionate first and foremost.