No.
That's all the details a comic book wants in reference to past events. No one wants to hear Thomas Wayne talk about why we fall down or see some brat drop down the same hole twenty times in the same movie. (And for the finale, the brat falls down the hole again while someone pushes the "fall down" button on the Thomas Wayne soundboard.)
Once is an origin story. Cool.
Twice is an iteration to prove a point. Useful and cool if done right. No problems here.
That many times is Nolan telling you that you are too stupid to understand what he is saying.
Here's the comic book version: You have a 10 part plot arch. 32 pages per book, 10 pages of which are ads. (Cool! A Batpod! Don't act like it's not happening either. My kid got one of the new figures on his birthday in the first week of May. It's now July 5 and the movie still isn't out.)
So now you're down to 22 pages per issue. Each issue has two pages in common. Young Bruce is falling down a hole and seeing bats. Same art, same words, same exact page in every issue. Another page of every issue is a big splash page of Thomas Wayne. "That's why we fall down."
That crap would end up in Tales from the Longbox or any of a hundred other critic sites before issue 7 was released. The author would lose credibility. On that note, making Alfred fat and introducing Q into the mix would not go over will in print either.
Ghost Rider was like watching a comic book take the screen. It was light on moping alter-egos, full of eye candy, and heavy on ass kicking. No one liked it.
"THAT'S not what comic books are!" I can't tell if the people saying that used to read or Blackthorne titles and stopped reading when they went bust or if maybe I missed that epic Superman arch: you know, the one where he moped for twelve issues as Clark Kent, put on his cape and took a nap, moped, slept, moped while falling asleep, and finally Lex Luthor did himself in through his own mistreatment of others while Supes acted like an 80 year old with Alzheimer's.
Please direct me to the Trade Paperback of that exciting story!
Likewise, Burton's Batman wasn't entirely dismissive of the comic scene in its time. Batman would still go up against villain-of-the-week bad guys at the news stand. (News stand? Hell. The spinning 40 year old dirty white metal rack at 7-11 that bent all the spines up.) Some of them were really bad and forgettable as well.
Nolan and company went overboard on the other side of our fine line. Most everyone is these days, to tell the truth. It's like watching Vanilla Ice try to show the world how \m/etal he is just to gain a little street cred.
Superheroes do things. Iron Man did them. Ghost Rider did them. Even the Donner movies found some balance between Clark's life as a human and Superman the hero. Spider-Man definitely did not do much in those movies except cry about things. Superman took a lot of naps. Batman Begins was apparently the story of an OCD sufferer who kept humming "why we fall down" in between moping.
I am going to give TDK a fresh start. The ARG and marketing have been loads of fun. My car still says to Vote Harvey Dent. Ledger looks to have done a fairly good job with the Joker. If nothing else, I'm sure this will have more bright spots and likeable moments than Begins.
I just can not accept that watching a grown man mope for two hours is anything like reading a comic book. It's more like reading a pathetic rant on the internet.
Just like this one.