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John Jackson Miller watched 1989sBatman12 times in the theater.
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I wanted to explore that moment, Miller tellsDen of Geekmagazine.
Such niggling questions helped Miller writeBatman: Resurrection, a novel that explores the aftermath ofBatman.
Miller takes readers through a city still reeling from the Jokers attack, now vulnerable to a new threat.
Exactly what or whom is being resurrected, we wont say yet.
I wanted a protagonist/antagonist who fits theTim Burtonaesthetic, Miller says of Clayface.
All of his characters are broken in some way, shape, or form.
I took the Golden Age Clayface Basil Karlo and made him more sympathetic and tragic.
I wanted to tie his tragedy to something from the first movie.
He called it an opera about loneliness.
I thought that was wonderful because the movies are about lonely people versus people who have someone.
We can see how the Joker impacted everybody.
We see what Max Shreck thought of the Joker; we see what Selina Kyle thought of the Joker.
We can see the wreckage of what this guy did to the world.
And I wanted to show what happened with Jokers crew.
While the book is a sequel to the film, it exists inits own pocket universe.
Batman: Resurrection is available in bookstores now.
