The end of Bruce Wayne...?

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0612814

Well, I take this a grain of salt. I mean they did try to kill Supes oonce as a way to boost sales.

 

[Skywalker]

He'll be back.

 

[SeerSGB]

They've tried this before, and a few months later Wayne was back. They could blow his head off with a shotgun, burn the body, and scatter the ashes, and Wayne will come back. Reboot and restart the comics, yeah I can see it. But Bruce Wayne and Batman go hand in hand for most Batfans and they're not going to slaughter DC's only other multimedia cash-cow.

 

[blaXXer]

Hasn't DC already announced to reboot Batman in Feb, 2009?

 

[God Magnus]

Whether or not it's true, the current storyline has really irked me. This whole "Batman RIP" thing came into play just as I got back into Batman because it had returned to a "Batman and Robin fight crime" model. Now we're back on another big crossover that confuses me a bit because they don't mark off crossovers the way they used to. Before I remember they would have put say, "Knightfall Part 2" on an issue and I would know what order to read them. Now I'm finding myself reading events in one comic that don't jive with events in another. At the rate things are going, I'll probably drop Batman and Detective again from my pull list.

 

[Dar70]

Just another gimmick to get people to buy the books. Hes slated to come back.

 

[blaXXer]

Also, final Crisis sucks major monkey balls. Secret invasion however, I do enjoy :-)

/Stormin' Norman FTW!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Whether or not it's true, the current storyline has really irked me. This whole "Batman RIP" thing came into play just as I got back into Batman because it had returned to a "Batman and Robin fight crime" model. Now we're back on another big crossover that confuses me a bit because they don't mark off crossovers the way they used to. Before I remember they would have put say, "Knightfall Part 2" on an issue and I would know what order to read them. Now I'm finding myself reading events in one comic that don't jive with events in another. At the rate things are going, I'll probably drop Batman and Detective again from my pull list.

The reading order of R.I.P. is a bit confusing, because anything outside of Grant Morrison's Batman is basically a side-story.

"Heart of Hush," in Detective, takes place prior to the Batman issues. So, too, do the Robin issues. (The current Robin issues take place after R.I.P., but before the upcoming "Battle for the Cowl.") I'm not sure where the Nightwing issues are supposed to take place.

 

[Captain Craig]

I so don't care.

I'm not gullible enough to pick the book back up just because of a "death".

That one trick pony of death in comics is a corpse that has been dug up, kicked around, pulled apart, reburied, dug back up just to pick at the bones.

Death means nothing in comics and they have only themselves to blame for making it mean nothing from a "draw" perspective.

 

[JNG]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0612814

Well, I take this a grain of salt. I mean they did try to kill Supes oonce as a way to boost sales.

I take it with the whole shaker

 

[Misfit Toy]

http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0612814

Well, I take this a grain of salt. I mean they did try to kill Supes oonce as a way to boost sales.

Pretty much every story in comics is done as a way to boost sales.

 

[Thrall]

Someone has to stop Morrison before he fucks up every continuity in comics. Send him back to write all those weird ass Vertigo books that he likes to write when he's stoned out of mind. Not even the Jason Todd crap was this bad. Even Stan Lee had editors who didn't think twice about telling him "No". "No, Morrison. You're not doing YET ANOTHER self-indulgent story that screws up the characters and makes the continuity even more muddled, just so you can do YET ANOTHER analogy as to why drugs are awesome." He's the Amy Winehouse of the comic world.

 

[Cicero]

Someone has to stop Morrison before he fucks up every continuity in comics. Send him back to write all those weird ass Vertigo books that he likes to write when he's stoned out of mind. Not even the Jason Todd crap was this bad. Even Stan Lee had editors who didn't think twice about telling him "No". "No, Morrison. You're not doing YET ANOTHER self-indulgent story that screws up the characters and makes the continuity even more muddled, just so you can do YET ANOTHER analogy as to why drugs are awesome." He's the Amy Winehouse of the comic world.

Wasn't Stan Lee the editor-in-chief?

 

[Thrall]

Someone has to stop Morrison before he fucks up every continuity in comics. Send him back to write all those weird ass Vertigo books that he likes to write when he's stoned out of mind. Not even the Jason Todd crap was this bad. Even Stan Lee had editors who didn't think twice about telling him "No". "No, Morrison. You're not doing YET ANOTHER self-indulgent story that screws up the characters and makes the continuity even more muddled, just so you can do YET ANOTHER analogy as to why drugs are awesome." He's the Amy Winehouse of the comic world.

Wasn't Stan Lee the editor-in-chief?

Not at first.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Also, another thing regarding Bruce Wayne's fate in R.I.P..

Final Crisis takes place sometime after R.I.P. And the Batman in Final Crisis is known to be Bruce Wayne.

It's looking like Wayne is going to briefly retire to get his head put back together, and then resume the cowl, much as he did in "Prodigal" when, after retaking the mantle of the bat from Jean-Paul Valley, he then handed it off to Dick Grayson while he sorted his mind out.

 

[Mr Light]

He also just retired for a whole year in the missing year between Infinite Crisis and One Year Later.

 

[Cicero]

Someone has to stop Morrison before he fucks up every continuity in comics. Send him back to write all those weird ass Vertigo books that he likes to write when he's stoned out of mind. Not even the Jason Todd crap was this bad. Even Stan Lee had editors who didn't think twice about telling him "No". "No, Morrison. You're not doing YET ANOTHER self-indulgent story that screws up the characters and makes the continuity even more muddled, just so you can do YET ANOTHER analogy as to why drugs are awesome." He's the Amy Winehouse of the comic world.

Wasn't Stan Lee the editor-in-chief?

Not at first.

I don't think his limited work in 1941 (which seems to have gone over well with the Timely management) really counts. Between late 1941 and when he stepped down in 1972, he was E-i-C during the entire time he worked at Marvel.

 

[Thrall]

Wasn't Stan Lee the editor-in-chief?

Not at first.

I don't think his limited work in 1941 (which seems to have gone over well with the Timely management) really counts. Between late 1941 and when he stepped down in 1972, he was E-i-C during the entire time he worked at Marvel.

I seem to recall him telling stores about butting heads with this publisher many times. They thought his ideas were stupid. Especially most of his Spider-Man ideas.

 

[Cicero]

Not at first.

I don't think his limited work in 1941 (which seems to have gone over well with the Timely management) really counts. Between late 1941 and when he stepped down in 1972, he was E-i-C during the entire time he worked at Marvel.

I seem to recall him telling stores about butting heads with this publisher many times. They thought his ideas were stupid. Especially most of his Spider-Man ideas.

Spider-Man wasn't created until the early 1960s, well into Lee's tenure as E-i-C. He worked on Captain America (inventing cap's skill in ricocheting his shield) and a handful of obscure titles and characters in '41. It's true that publisher Martin Goodman didn't like the Spider-Man character, but that only resulted in Spider-Man's first appearance being in Amazing Fantasy no. 15 (where he'd have been just another one-off character if unsuccessful) rather than Spider-Man no. 1. In general, the two seem to have had a good working relationship, in which Goodman sometimes supplied general direction for the comics line (more monsters, more romances, more westerns, etc.) and Lee produced the actual comics.

 

[nx1701g]

We all know that Bruce will eventually be back so this isn't really that big a deal. Never the less, I recall reading online (so I take it with a grain of salt) that there were plans to bring Terry McGinnis into the regular DC Continuity and have him replace Batman.