Well, week zero, technically, since the first issue of Battle for the Cowl doesn’t come out until next Wednesday. Still, this week saw the release of Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead?, a sort of prelude to the storyline that introduces some of the bit players, rather than focusing on major characters like Robin and Nightwing. Gotham […]
Moreso than anybody else, Tim Drake deserves to be Batman. Tim Drake first showed up in Batman #436, in 1989. While watching Batman and Robin battle against the Penguin, he realizes that the moves are those that only Dick Grayson could accomplish, since he had seen the same move when watching the Flying Graysons. At […]
Jason Todd is batsh*t crazy. I mean, let’s be honest. Sure, a lot of people voted to kill of Jason Todd in DC’s now-infamous “Should Robin Die?” hotline stunt back in 1988. See, Jason Todd became Robin in 1983 after Dick Grayson moved on to join the New Teen Titans. After Crisis on Infinite Earths […]
Dick Grayson has been Batman before. Years ago, after the Knightquest storyline in the Batman comics, Bruce Wayne, healed from his paralysis, returns to Gotham and has to forcible take back the mantle of Batman from his replacement, Jean-Paul Valley (Azrael). Nightwing, comfortable that the Bats is back, tried to go back to the Titans […]
So…Batman’s dead. Kinda. During DC Comics’ recent Final Crisis crossover, Batman breaks his “no guns” rule and shoots Darkseid, using some kind of “god-killing” bullet. (don’t ask me, it doesn’t make much sense) As Darkseid dies, he fires his Omega Sanction beams from his eyes and apparently kills Batman. Well, until two weeks later, when […]