Batman #681, Page 16 Splash (2008)

I was in my mid/late 20s when Grant Morrison was doing his "BatGod" thing. I loved it, and the RIP story line culminated in a very cool Batman moment that has stuck with me ever since I first read it. Here is an excerpt from the book that I feel adds so much more to this image:

"But that's the thing about Batman. Batman thinks of everything.

Obvious variations aside, there’s only one human body…206 bones, five major organs, 60,000 miles of blood vessels.

All it takes is time. Days. Months. Years, spent memorizing the finite ways there are to hurt and break a man. Preparing for all of them.

I’ve escaped from every conceivable deathtrap. Ten times. A dozen times.

I can slow my breathing and metabolism to control panic and conserve air. Straitjacket’s kindergarten. Locks, too.

Benchpressing a pine coffin lid through 600 pounds of loose soil that’s filling your mouth, crushing your lungs flat and shredding your dehydrated muscles?

That’s harder. But far from impossible."