Getting Knighted: Helfer Talks "Batman: Journey Into Knight"
Wed, June 29th, 2005 at 12:00am PDT  Comic Books Dave Richards,
Staff Writer  "Batman: Journey Into Knight" #1 Bruce Wayne
planned to become Batman, Gotham City's guardian against the
forces of crime. He did not plan for Batman to become The Dark
Knight, a grim crusader waging an obsessive war on crime. So
what turned Batman from a semi optimistic crime fighter into the
cynical Dark Knight? This August writer Andrew Helfer and artist
Tan Eng Huat answer that question in "Batman: Journey Into
Knight," a 12 issue maxi-series from DC Comics with covers by
Pat Lee. Helfer spoke to CBR News about the series, which
explores the events that turned Batman into the character he is
today.  "Journey Into Knight" has been in development for a
number of years. The roots of the series come from the original
run of "Legends of the Dark Knight," of which Helfer was the
first editor. "The original idea of it was these were all kind
of 'Year One' stories and I hoped