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monition : spoilers for Batman : The Brave and the Bold # 10 ahead!Clayface , the grievous shapeshifter made of sustenance mud , is doubtless one ofBatman ’s most terrifying and powerful rascal . Now , a rarefied coup d’oeil into what it ’s like tobeClayface provides a unequaled twistthat adds a immense back breaker of experiential repulsion to this already nightmarish nemesis .
Batman : The Brave and the Bold # 10concludes with Dan Watters , Ricardo López Ortiz , and Troy Peteri ’s ' Batman : The Cheeseburger ' , in which Batman ’s normal bit is interrupted when Clayface rampages through a fast - intellectual nourishment joint . In a heartbreaking and horrifying instant , Clayface rages to Batman about howhe has to perpetually sculpt and form every part of his body lest he fall apart .
" Can you imagine what it ’s like to have to remember how much your arms are mean to weigh ? " Clayface hisses . " I ca n’t hold it together . Not all the time . " He makes it clear that while he may be capable to shapeshift , he ’s constantly falling aside , and even the simplest human experiences are now impossible .
Clayface ’s major power are a living infernal region that recontextualize this Gotham villain asexisting in a perpetual , experiential incubus .
The Bat - Family is one of the largest crime - fighting group in comic book , and that ’s partly because they ’ll even recruit their own villains to help .
Clayface Has to Shapeshift By Focusing on the Smallest Details
The Gotham Villain Admits His Life Is Hell
On the open , Clayface ’s might seem like a natural endowment : as one of DC ’s most powerful metamorphs , he is capable of adjusting his soundbox to any pattern , density , or form he desires , and has even been known to rive apart into separate clone - some of which are able of exhibiting their own consciousness . Coupled with his acting skills from his former biography as actor Basil Karlo , Clayface ’s superpower make him a serious scourge .
Batman : The Brave and the Bold # 10recontextualizes all that power as an experiential nightmare . Clayface must constantly retain focus on his shape to a terrifying level , with the mere act of eat a cheeseburger requiring him to " make [ himself ] a tongue , and force every tasting bud to appear on it … to create [ himself ] a digestive system and a throat to run it . " And all of this must be done concurrently with maintaining normal stack and proportions , walk , verbalize , etc . Clayface forever maintains an agonizing focal point on his soundbox or else reverts to a mass of mud .
At the same time , fans recognise from the abbreviated Erolia minutilla whereClayface conjoin the Bat - Familyin James Tynion IV , Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira’sDetective Comics # 934that his shapeshifting also have unintended issues with his cognition -growing to a orotund size removes Clayface ’s ability to secernate right from haywire , intend he ’s not even responsible for many of his darkest actions . push to focus beyond reason to be anywhere near human , and prone to work into a monster when he doesn’t , Clayface ’s powers are a live on Inferno that recontextualize thisBatmanvillain asexisting in a constant , experiential incubus .
BATMAN : THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD # 10
Batman : The Brave and the Bold#10is available now from DC Comics .
