There have been several good novels featuring Superman, but Batman seems to be a much harder nut to crack when you take him out of the visual environment. The latest effort, Wayne of Gotham, tries to expand the Batman mythos by digging into the Wayne/Gotham backstory. But Tracy Hickman falls flat in his attempt to add depth to Bruce Wayne. The story is a rehash of previous Batman stories(most notably the The First Batman – which has Thomas Wayne dressed up in a proto Batman costume and being forced to help out gangster Lew Moxon) with not much interesting added. Let’s take a look at where this went wrong.