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Not a problem, in and of itself. After all, the classic Batman of the Forties, Fifties and even on into the Sixties was pretty "cartoony."

Of course, that was back in the days when the CHARACTERS were more important than the latest stunt or flavor-of-the-month artist, and everybody drew the SAME Batman.

Remember how Dave Cockrum heavily redrew my versions of the X-Men when they appeared in IRON FIST? I wonder, when was the last time something like THAT happened?

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Unfortunately, Bruce Wayne has never really had a consistent look. "Handsome White guy" is about as good as it gets.

(Don Thompson, back when anybody paid any attention to CBG, even used this to defend the casting of Michael Keaton. "He's been drawn so many ways, by so many artists, how do we know what he looks like?" Well, I said, we may not know exactly what he looks like, but we know what he DOESN'T look like, i.e., a short, curly haired guy with buck teeth and a nubbin chin.)*

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* Down thru the decades, one of Hollywood's most curious quirks had been the frequent casting of people with distinctive mouths and chins to play masked characters. The latest, of course, is Ben Affleck's Batman. That's HUGE cleft in his chin wouldn't tip ANYBODY to it being Bruce Wayne under the cowl!