Morrison re-imagined him as an emaciated cripple, trapped in a wheelchair, wasted by his inability to dream. Most incarnations of Doctor Destiny have him as a 7-foot tall, muscular titan with a skull for a head.Though the abstract storytelling makes it hard to know for sure, the story also leaves open the suggestion that Bruce Wayne may (or may not) really be either possessed by an evil spirit that gives him a symbiotic connection with Arkham Asylum, or the latest reincarnation of the deranged psychologist who founded the asylum.Invoked by Morrison in response to all the interpretations of Batman as borderline sociopathic, and partly because this was one of Grant and McKean's earliest professional projects. In the notes to the script included in the 15th anniversary edition, Morrison admits that this interpretation of the Batman (as an insecure, sexually repressed, infantile mama's boy) can only apply to this comic, that it's meant to be a death and rebirth for Batman.
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