Say it ain't so!

[presspirate]

]Bruce Wayne is dead[/u]!

[serial_x]

Originally Posted by presspirate

Bruce Wayne is dead!

Looks like it.

Someone put Standardman on suicide watch.

[sephinflames]

They need to get Peter Parker next....

[sephinflames]

Originally Posted by serial_x

Looks like it.

Someone put Standardman on suicide watch.

Standardman IS Bruce Wayne, this is all a big publicity stunt.

[TeddyPicker]

Originally Posted by sephinflames

Standardman IS Bruce Wayne, this is all a big publicity stunt.

Pshhh, standardman dresses up in his Batman suit from Woolworth's and cries in a dark corner in his room....

[standardman]

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Yes Batman RIP just concluded.

The ending and Bruce Wayne's death at Reichenbach falls is a big homage to Moriarty 'killing' Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was only faking his death to rest (in peace). He'll return.

This is comics, no-one ever really dies.

[serial_x]

Originally Posted by standardman

This is comics, no-one ever really dies.

Captain America got snipered... no one survives a snipering. Not even Captain America.

[presspirate]

I will bow to Standardman's superior comic book wisdom. The article did say that Batman would continue on with someone else in the suit. But will it be Robin? And I wonder if it explains why Bruce Waynes father faked his death to become a bad/good/good/bad guy? He was a philanthropist was he not? So many unanswered questions.

[standardman]

Originally Posted by serial_x

Captain America got snipered... no one survives a snipering. Not even Captain America.

I always thought that was ridiculous. The guy gets shot at in every damn comic he's ever been in.

Thor communicated with his spirit a year on but that's the closest we've seem to him returning. Bucky* did take up the shield though, so while Steve Rogers is dead, Captain America continues and I expect a similar thing to happen in Batman.


*Incidentally, Bucky's death used to one of the only ones that was considered permanent.

The Bucky Clause was often said when a hero 'died', "No one in comics stays dead except Bucky, DC Comics' Jason Todd, Spider-Man's Uncle Ben and girlfriend Gwen Stacy".

Since then, only Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy remain dead and Gwen Stacy was cloned. Comics are funny like that.

[standardman]

Originally Posted by presspirate

I will bow to Standardman's superior comic book wisdom. The article did say that Batman would continue on with someone else in the suit. But will it be Robin? And I wonder if it explains why Bruce Waynes father faked his death to become a bad/good/good/bad guy? He was a philanthropist was he not? So many unanswered questions.

That will all be touched on over many comics costing me lots of money. Link: ‘Batman: Battle For The Cowl’: Who Will Take Up The Mantle?

I'll say this, Grant Morrison's run on Batman has been the freshest in a couple of decades and nicely ties in all the stuff from the old comics that I love (and tend to put in my sig). His whole arc is well worth picking up.