Batman #47 Review

Writer: Tom King / Artist: Tony S. Daniel/DC Comics Have you ever wished you could travel back to the past and change something? There are often moments that we’ve built up to be much larger than they actually were; like that time you accidentally let a secret slip, or when you tripped and fell in front of the entire football team. If we could go back, many of us would. Booster Gold is that person. Except, selflessly, he chose to go back and change a moment that actually did have large implications on not only one person’s life but the entire world. Saving Martha and Thomas Wayne from becoming victims of Joe Chill in Crime Alley was meant to be a wedding gift to Bruce Wayne, the man who has everything and then some. Instead, Booster found out that while Bruce was living a moderately happy life with both of his parents, the rest of the world was seemingly in shambles. Batman #47 is the last issue of “The Gift,” a three-story arc that explores a world where the Waynes live into old age. Issue #45 had the luster that you’d expect of any good alternate universe story and issue #46 gave us the shocking twists that you can only get when you know everything will be restored when it’s all said and done. Issue #47 wraps the arc up well and makes us appreciate the Batman we’ve come to know over decades.

In issue #47, Booster Gold has been Bruce Wayne’s prisoner for an entire year after letting Catwoman kill his parents and Alfred. Never having witnessed his parents die due to gunfire,…