Batman: THE LONG HALLOWEEN in Comics & Animation - Lighting the Bat-Signal: A Batman Fan Journey

Yeah.

So this is a work I don't think much setup is required plot-wise, but in case anyone needs-

No

... just a really quick refresher, we have a serial killer nicknamed Holiday by the press, who strikes appropriately on holidays and targets members of the Falcone and Maroni crime families, and we have our united trio of Batman, Gordon, and Dent working to, to bring this killer to justice.

Now let me just stop right there.

I, I said Falcone, so I've gone with the pronunciation that we've often heard on screen and in the animated adaptation, but in my heart of hearts, I always wanna say Falcone.

I'm curious what, where you land on your pronunciation.

I say Falcone.

All right.

I honestly don't remember because, you know, Batman Begins was, uh, not even two years after I read this for the first time.

So that could have definitely had an impression on me, and I'm like, oh, okay, that's how you pronounce it, and then I just went that route with it.

I hones- I don't remember how I read it the first time.

I probably would've said Falcone 'cause I'm such a, what I, w- like, simple in...

What you're telling me is what it is, and if I look at that word, I'm like, "Oh, falcon, but there's an E, so it's cone, Falcone." I probably thought that way until Christopher Nolan, uh, Inceptioned me.

Yeah.

Uh, 100%.

I had, I had the same hark with that-

[laughs]

[laughs] But we'll, we'll, we'll stick with that.

Now, I know-

Yeah

... you have read Jeph Loeb's introduction to the collected edition, where he talks about how this project came to be.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, the late, great legendary editor Archie Goodwin came to him, uh, was, was intrigued in having him explore the, the gangster side, the organized crime side of, of Gotham, and sort of pick up where Frank Miller had left off.

And that was sort of our, our jumping-off point, yeah?

Yeah.

So this is a work I don't think much setup is required plot-wise, but in case anyone needs-

No

... just a really quick refresher, we have a serial killer nicknamed Holiday by the press, who strikes appropriately on holidays and targets members of the Falcone and Maroni crime families, and we have our united trio of Batman, Gordon, and Dent working to, to bring this killer to justice.

Now let me just stop right there.

I, I said Falcone, so I've gone with the pronunciation that we've often heard on screen and in the animated adaptation, but in my heart of hearts, I always wanna say Falcone.

I'm curious what, where you land on your pronunciation.

I say Falcone.

All right.

I honestly don't remember because, you know, Batman Begins was, uh, not even two years after I read this for the first time.

So that could have definitely had an impression on me, and I'm like, oh, okay, that's how you pronounce it, and then I just went that route with it.

I hones- I don't remember how I read it the first time.

I probably would've said Falcone 'cause I'm such a, what I, w- like, simple in...

What you're telling me is what it is, and if I look at that word, I'm like, "Oh, falcon, but there's an E, so it's cone, Falcone." I probably thought that way until Christopher Nolan, uh, Inceptioned me.

Yeah.

Uh, 100%.

I had, I had the same hark with that-

[laughs]

[laughs] But we'll, we'll, we'll stick with that.

Now, I know-

Yeah

... you have read Jeph Loeb's introduction to the collected edition, where he talks about how this project came to be.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, the late, great legendary editor Archie Goodwin came to him, uh, was, was intrigued in having him explore the, the gangster side, the organized crime side of, of Gotham, and sort of pick up where Frank Miller had left off.

And that was sort of our, our jumping-off point, yeah?