batman RIP

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:34 am

dbostejano wrote:USA today has leaked what is going to happen to Batman

Spoiler alert: You've been warned!

RIP

OK, so they're going to kill Alfred off (again) and redo the Outsider storyline from the 60's . . .

As far as the speculation over Robin being the leader of the Black Glove, the only Robin it could be is Bruce himself (since he dressed up as Robin long before Batman). I don't see it being Drake, Todd or Grayson.

nutflush76 · Post by **nutflush76** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:21 am

dbostejano wrote:USA today has leaked what is going to happen to Batman

Spoiler alert: You've been warned!

RIP

I click on that link and it just talks about Neil Gaiman's story but gives no details.

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:38 am

nutflush76 wrote:
dbostejano wrote:USA today has leaked what is going to happen to Batman

Spoiler alert: You've been warned!

RIP
I click on that link and it just talks about Neil Gaiman's story but gives no details.

in which the crimefighter is so shaken by a secret from his past that a new Batman must be found.

I imagine that is what he meant. I think the fact that they use quotes each time they mention "die" that Bruce Wayne isn't going to pass into the afterworld, but retire.

Honestly, I am all for that. Bruce Wayne is still an exceptionally interesting character, it is time for a new Batman.

nutflush76 · Post by **nutflush76** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:44 am

Oh well the final issue of RIP comes out tomorrow so I guess we will see what happens.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:48 am

about time

caxiotis · Post by **caxiotis** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:47 pm

time for a new batman......... like Azrael. That didn't work to well for me during the whole Knightquest and KnightsEnd run.

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:07 pm

I AM THE NEW BAT-MAN!

Oh, and Jim Shooter.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:09 pm

now that would rock

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:47 pm

superman-prime wrote:now that would rock

I can see me now, swinging off a building while children below say:

"Mommy! Mommy! Look at the stupid fat man!"

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:08 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:I AM THE NEW BAT-MAN!

Oh, and Jim Shooter.

can we try and keep our schticks straight? You have your beatstick, I am Batman.

gonna have to TM this crap and go VIPstyle on somebody's *SQUEE*.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:34 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:I AM THE NEW BAT-MAN!

Oh, and Jim Shooter.

Oh, REALLY?????

-slym

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:22 pm

slym2none wrote:
X-O HoboJoe wrote:I AM THE NEW BAT-MAN!

Oh, and Jim Shooter.
Oh, REALLY?????

-slym

Er . . . sorry, Mr. S.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:44 am

Go shooter GO

schi0249 · Post by **schi0249** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:25 am

dbostejano wrote:USA today has leaked what is going to happen to Batman

Spoiler alert: You've been warned!

RIP

What did they say? That link doesn't reveal anything.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:12 pm

ya well you can read it today

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:34 pm

superman-prime wrote:ya well you can read it today

And boy does it suck.

Just read Batman 429 and make a few changes.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:18 pm

ouch and i got to wait to read crap for a week yet

sanman · Post by **sanman** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:36 pm

X-O HoboJoe wrote:
superman-prime wrote:ya well you can read it today
And boy does it suck.

Just read Batman 429 and make a few changes.

****POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT****

Yeah, a character appears to die in a __________________ and a couple of months he or she will be back in Gotham. Despite my concerns about customer demand the whole thing appears to have been unimportant. When I arrived at my LCS at 7 p.m. there were still 15 or so still on the rack and I may have bought the only 1:25 issue. Obviously the mainstream media did not bite on this which was nice. Overall I found the whole thing anticlimactic though.

On a positive note I’m looking forward to the O’Neil and Gaiman arcs and surprising enjoyed Smith’s Cacophony. Also, I just bought the new Batman: The Animated box set—way cool.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:58 pm

crud crappy series endings byte

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:09 pm

Although I dropped Batman midway through RIP, I picked up the final issue to see what happened.

What a waste of $4. That was just the same as all the other disjointed, cermungulated sh!tty issues of this run written by Morrison.

The "death"....... stupid.

Cap 25 was a bajillion times better.

*SQUEE* DC. I'm done with them outside of Vertigo and Wildstorm. That was *SQUEE* terrible.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:06 pm

cap 25 was a rip it should have been in the last issue of civil war

RIPs ending was horrible to say the best

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:44 pm

superman-prime wrote:cap 25 was a rip it should have been in the last issue of civil war

Why? He was killed to kick off a plotline that had been building in Captain America for two years and was assassinated by a group of villains who didn't appear in Civil War. If it had appeared in Civil War it would've felt random in the context of that miniseries (kinda like the Secret Invasion finale).

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:55 pm

it just felt like a extension if civil war to me but, i dont read cap either just civil war and a few other events in the marvel U

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:34 pm

superman-prime wrote:it just felt like a extension if civil war to me but, i dont read cap either just civil war and a few other events in the marvel U

It made sense for it to be in Cap. Putting it into Civil War would've been a gimmick only. It had to be in Cap if you read the series.

Seeing some of the series that you enjoy, I'm very surprised that you don't read Cap. Pick up the trades for the whole series and start at the beginning. You won't be disappointed. I've never cared for Cap much until this Brubaker series.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:05 pm

next time i have the green ill pick it up, ive never heard a recommendation for it. most everyone i hang with reads dc and ultimate U only

thanks for the info