Four panels from an 80’s Batman comic in which Lucius Fox and Bruce Wayne have a discussion. Lucius begins it with, “I BLEW IT, man!” Bruce counters, “You were WORN DOWN, Lucius, what with people pressuring you to launch a POLITICAL CAMPAIGN–trying to deal with THEM while still running the foundation for ME…” Lucius adds, with a long and chilly gaze, “And watching my EVERY STEP, to avoid treading on anyone’s PRECIOUS POLITICAL TOES…” Bruce agrees, “There you go–it was like handling TWO full-time jobs.” Lucius laments, “And I’ve failed in BOTH of them–one of Gotham’s leading Black success stories–a FLOP. And now people will think it’s BECAUSE I’m--” only for Bruce to interject, “Then LET them think it! YOU know it’s not true! You’ve done a superb job in a position I WALKED AWAY FROM! And stop WORRYING about me–Bruce Wayne won’t STARVE. As for your mayoral campaign, politics is not an arena in which mistakes are easily forgiven–not unless you’re RONALD REAGAN, anyway–but *I* know the TRUTH, too.”
I’ve unfortunately lost which issue this occurred in, but this is a very eye-opening scene from a Batman comic of the 80’s that is just so much more real than a lot of Batman stuff I see nowadays.
