Known to many DC comic fans out there, Bruce Wayne is a multi-billionaire who after the loss of his parents, decided to become a vigilante of Gotham city. After a traumatic experience during the time when Wayne was a child, he had developed a fear for bats. Eventually, Wayne embraces this fear and made the bat the symbol of his crime-fighting, deliverance of justice; thus, the notorious Batman was born. This story in itself is already an “alternate universe”; not many billionaires become vigilantes in the everyday world. Bucky Sinister offers a more realistic version of Bruce Wayne, a version that will portray what a Bruce Wayne would be like if he were to exist in everyday life.
In Sinister’s depiction, evidently, Bruce Wayne is poor rather than rich, a hopeless romantic rather than a player of women. This is not surprising at all; much of Sinister’s portrayal could be foreshadowed. However, what is interesting is the way Sinister portrays Bruce Wayne more as a human, in which most people can relate. Bruce is not a symbol of justice, a rich, young handsome man with a hot body, but a drunk, friendless, depressed man with back pains.
Sinister seems to just portray what was already given to him and took it further. In the movies, Wayne had not many friends except his trusted butler, Alfred. I believed he was a consumer of wine, and a lonely man who believes in justice. We can already see that Bruce Wayne’s character, when not disguised as Batman was already in itself part of Sinister’s depiction. After all, Wayne’s loneliness and his sense of justice are why I can personally relate and the reason I am a Batman fan today. Sinister seems to just enhance Bruce’s flaws and although many Batman fans will be offended, I believe that some may accept it as a clearer picture.
In terms of literacy, at first glance, the poem was not really a poem, but more like prose. However, this is just one of the advance techniques that make it all the more a literary work. Sinister’s work is indeed literary as he uses literary devices such as imagery (“Bruce hobbles in.”). At the end of the poem, Sinister even uses a rhetorical question to raise ambiguity. “‘And in this other universe,’ he asks, ‘What are you?’ By this does Sinister mean that the speaker who is kind and caring is actually a villainous man? It is unknown. Sinister just utilizes short sentences and no set structure of a poem that makes it seem that it is not a literal piece of work, yet the work presents a problem and addresses it in the end just like how a sonnet would.
Tribute to Big Boss
This man is a soldier used as a tool
He claims not to be a hero.
His countenance resembles a ghoul
When it comes to combat, he is no fool
The ground where he trots become sterile
This man is a solider used as a tool
The death of a loved one caused him to lose his cool
Desolate, his number of friends amount to zero
His countenance resembles a ghoul
He no longer abides by the government’s rules
He tends to hide his SORROW
This man is a soldier used as a tool
There is no place he would go without his 9milimeter pistol
He lives just to see another tomorrow
His countenance resembles a ghoul
His life has been similar to a cesspool
Where his troubles are always so ample
This man is a soldier used as a tool
His countenance resembles a ghoul
The end of the poem may be figured out by the beginning. In the real universe, the narrator is the hopeless drunk. The narrator has a fantasy: "there is an alternate universe in which bruce wayne is poor, and I have my shit together." I wrote this in a horrible state of detox. I've since quit drinking all together...
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