6/28/2023 0 Comments Paul dini dark nightWhere is my hero?’ ”ĭini composes himself and then says, “The answer is: You have to be your own hero.” “Here I am writing these stories for an audience that loves this form, in comics, in animation, but now I was saying to myself, ‘I can’t go on with this. “What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you,” Dini says over breakfast in Studio City, suddenly overcome by emotion and choking back tears. Titled Dark Night: A True Batman Story, it is one of the most autobiographical books ever published by the company. Coming in June 2016, the book isn’t an indie but rather hails from DC’s imprint Vertigo and features the Caped Crusader and his rogues’ gallery as a kind of Greek chorus. Now, more than two decades later, Dini is revisiting that traumatic event with a highly personal graphic novel. Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write New Superman Movie for Warner Bros.
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