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...Well, crap.
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...Isn't Azrael currently dead?
I really hope this isn't true. Though I can imagine DC looking at the bounce that Marvel got with killing off Captain America (who seems to be remaining resolutely dead for the longest time) (well, deadish, what with apparently being in a jar somewhere, but it's not like he's put in an appearance) and drawing many many many wrong conclusions from it. Plus looking at the fact that the Bat titles have remained resolutely Countdown-free and managed to click right along, I guess they figured that they've screwed up Superman's titles (although they've managed to more or less stagger along, against all odds, considering not only Countdown related insanity but late issues and incomplete story arcs), they've pretty much accidentally killed Wonder Woman's title, JLA was kind of an eyesore for a while there, so hey! why not screw up the set of titles that's been working anyway! All that said, I would imagine that the Bat titles will all get a massive bounce. Plus, it's a big universe-spanning event; it would of necessity have to pull in the entire Bat title set, the Superman titles, Superman/Batman, JLA, probably the Green Lantern set, Green Arrow/Black Canary (assuming it's still being published by then), maybe even Blue Beetle and a few of the other second-level titles. So it'll give all those writers something to do once Countdown and the inexplicably short Final Crisis serieses are done. (I expect the next weekly series after Final Crisis will be "The Death of A Batman" or something like that, and all the many tie-ins will carry the "Death of A Batman, week 6,785" banner. "Gotham Underground" can show how all the criminals are coping with this unexpected opportunity. Oh, it'll be such gruesome fun! Really! It will!)
Mind, I'm sure Bruce won't stay dead. I mean, for heaven's sake, they're resurrecting Ra's Al-Ghul (which is apparently going to be something of a hook to drag the Bat titles into Countdown-related madness, so we're close to a trifecta, here), and Supes dying and coming back to life was money in the bank, so I can't imagine that they're going to leave Bruce dead. There's the additional weird factor that, no matter which version of continuity you look at -- the animated series, Batman Beyond, or Batman 666 (assuming that to be vaguely related to canon somehow) -- the one thing they agree on is that Tim Drake does not become the next Batman. Of course, they also agree that Jason doesn't become the next Batman, sort of, but in one he doesn't exist, in another he'd come down with a severe case of then-permanent death, and the other simply doesn't consider him. On the other hand, if they're really going to do it next year, then Damian is too young to take on the cowl; if Batman 666 is vaguely related to canon, that would imply ... well. Thinking about that seriously, it can't be in continuity, can it? I find it unlikely in the extreme that Tim would be Robin for the next fifteen years, or however long it takes to get Damian old enough to kill Bruce and take over his job. But assuming that he does do so, that means that Bruce would have to come back to life to be killed again.
Frankly, if he does get killed next year, I fully expect that Talia will take his body to a Lazarus Pit and bring him back. She seems rather ... peculiarly determined not to be a single mother, or at least to make sure that her son has a father to kill later. Plus, she needs Bruce around to protect her son from his grandfather.
Irksome thing is that I was sort of slowly getting pulled back into reading Morrison's "Batman", and occasionally Dini's "Detective", precisely because they were mostly lunacy-free. I didn't have to pay the slightest attention to anything going on in the rest of the DC universe. Clearly, this was a situation not to be borne.
Ah, well. I managed to ignore Batman for many years; I can go back to ignoring it again without too much difficulty.
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...In June/July, DC are killing off Batman. Or rather, Bruce Wayne. Robin will inherit the Batman cowl. One of the Robins anyway. Tim Drake. Jason Todd. Or possibly Red Hood. Hey, maybe Jean-Paul Valley, it has been ten years since Azrael.
Either way, the book will relaunch with a nice shiny #1.
...Isn't Azrael currently dead?
I really hope this isn't true. Though I can imagine DC looking at the bounce that Marvel got with killing off Captain America (who seems to be remaining resolutely dead for the longest time) (well, deadish, what with apparently being in a jar somewhere, but it's not like he's put in an appearance) and drawing many many many wrong conclusions from it. Plus looking at the fact that the Bat titles have remained resolutely Countdown-free and managed to click right along, I guess they figured that they've screwed up Superman's titles (although they've managed to more or less stagger along, against all odds, considering not only Countdown related insanity but late issues and incomplete story arcs), they've pretty much accidentally killed Wonder Woman's title, JLA was kind of an eyesore for a while there, so hey! why not screw up the set of titles that's been working anyway! All that said, I would imagine that the Bat titles will all get a massive bounce. Plus, it's a big universe-spanning event; it would of necessity have to pull in the entire Bat title set, the Superman titles, Superman/Batman, JLA, probably the Green Lantern set, Green Arrow/Black Canary (assuming it's still being published by then), maybe even Blue Beetle and a few of the other second-level titles. So it'll give all those writers something to do once Countdown and the inexplicably short Final Crisis serieses are done. (I expect the next weekly series after Final Crisis will be "The Death of A Batman" or something like that, and all the many tie-ins will carry the "Death of A Batman, week 6,785" banner. "Gotham Underground" can show how all the criminals are coping with this unexpected opportunity. Oh, it'll be such gruesome fun! Really! It will!)
Mind, I'm sure Bruce won't stay dead. I mean, for heaven's sake, they're resurrecting Ra's Al-Ghul (which is apparently going to be something of a hook to drag the Bat titles into Countdown-related madness, so we're close to a trifecta, here), and Supes dying and coming back to life was money in the bank, so I can't imagine that they're going to leave Bruce dead. There's the additional weird factor that, no matter which version of continuity you look at -- the animated series, Batman Beyond, or Batman 666 (assuming that to be vaguely related to canon somehow) -- the one thing they agree on is that Tim Drake does not become the next Batman. Of course, they also agree that Jason doesn't become the next Batman, sort of, but in one he doesn't exist, in another he'd come down with a severe case of then-permanent death, and the other simply doesn't consider him. On the other hand, if they're really going to do it next year, then Damian is too young to take on the cowl; if Batman 666 is vaguely related to canon, that would imply ... well. Thinking about that seriously, it can't be in continuity, can it? I find it unlikely in the extreme that Tim would be Robin for the next fifteen years, or however long it takes to get Damian old enough to kill Bruce and take over his job. But assuming that he does do so, that means that Bruce would have to come back to life to be killed again.
Frankly, if he does get killed next year, I fully expect that Talia will take his body to a Lazarus Pit and bring him back. She seems rather ... peculiarly determined not to be a single mother, or at least to make sure that her son has a father to kill later. Plus, she needs Bruce around to protect her son from his grandfather.
Irksome thing is that I was sort of slowly getting pulled back into reading Morrison's "Batman", and occasionally Dini's "Detective", precisely because they were mostly lunacy-free. I didn't have to pay the slightest attention to anything going on in the rest of the DC universe. Clearly, this was a situation not to be borne.
Ah, well. I managed to ignore Batman for many years; I can go back to ignoring it again without too much difficulty.