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Batman: Recreating the Dark Knight - Comics Feature at IGN
Around this time last year, at the peak of Final Crisis, Darkseid kills Batman.
Well, except death by Darkseid 's Omega Beams is more like reliving multiple lives across time in failure - a fate worse than death.
So what Bruce Wayne really is is time lost in a Sam Beckett/Quantum Leap kind of way. Dead in his time line, but alive in others as a different kind of Bruce Wayne. In order to move forward, he's going to have to reclaim aspects of himself and avert his fate to fail in these other lives he leads so he can return to the living in present day
Mister Miracle was another DC hero that Darkseid killed in this way and he was another hero to cheat his fate. The only other DC character that could do it would be Bruce Wayne and we'll see how he does it in greater detail and how Batman is reflected through him.
A big theme in the Batman and Robin comic and one that continues to resurface are moments from Final Crisis. Before Darksied killed Batman, his cronies had attempted to clone Bruce to make an unbeatable army possessing Bruce's physical and mental prowess, but when they tried to integrate Bruce's most painful memories into the clones - hopefully what would channel his abilities into rage - it instead made all the clones suicidal, to the point they were clawing their own eyes before they even really started to live.
To which they thought, exasperated, "How does Batman process this degree of stress? How can a man turn his own memories into a weapon?"
There was one clone that was revived, he couldn't even stay together for long, heh. He was so mentally damaged he sounded like Bizarro using l337speak. He was insane when revived, degenerated and kinda went zombie from there.
Can't help but notice, though, that there's no mention of Bruce actually returning to the role of Batman. This being the second time Dick Grayson filled Bruce's shoes and with the effort to make the role his own, I think they're actually stick with him being Batman. Plus Batman and Robin tend to need to counterbalance each other.
The current Robin, Damian Wayne, is a lot like Bruce - dark, obsessive, pompous and resilient. But since he's like eleven years old, he comes off as a rebellious brat. We're talking about a kid who thinks he could be Batman right now and likes to tell Dick to step aside. Dick Grayson has always been more optimistic, which is why he has to reinvent Batman on his terms and incorporate what he can from Bruce that still suits him. And he feels the need to mentor Damian like Bruce mentored him, show him the ropes and try to temper him a bit.
Anyway, here's the covers for the summer event "The Return of Bruce Wayne."
I'm partial to Cowboy Batman and Detective Bruce Wayne.
Here's the interviews for the story
Batman: Recreating the Dark Knight - Comics Feature at IGN
Around this time last year, at the peak of Final Crisis, Darkseid kills Batman.
Well, except death by Darkseid 's Omega Beams is more like reliving multiple lives across time in failure - a fate worse than death.
So what Bruce Wayne really is is time lost in a Sam Beckett/Quantum Leap kind of way. Dead in his time line, but alive in others as a different kind of Bruce Wayne. In order to move forward, he's going to have to reclaim aspects of himself and avert his fate to fail in these other lives he leads so he can return to the living in present day
Mister Miracle was another DC hero that Darkseid killed in this way and he was another hero to cheat his fate. The only other DC character that could do it would be Bruce Wayne and we'll see how he does it in greater detail and how Batman is reflected through him.
A big theme in the Batman and Robin comic and one that continues to resurface are moments from Final Crisis. Before Darksied killed Batman, his cronies had attempted to clone Bruce to make an unbeatable army possessing Bruce's physical and mental prowess, but when they tried to integrate Bruce's most painful memories into the clones - hopefully what would channel his abilities into rage - it instead made all the clones suicidal, to the point they were clawing their own eyes before they even really started to live.
To which they thought, exasperated, "How does Batman process this degree of stress? How can a man turn his own memories into a weapon?"
There was one clone that was revived, he couldn't even stay together for long, heh. He was so mentally damaged he sounded like Bizarro using l337speak. He was insane when revived, degenerated and kinda went zombie from there.
Can't help but notice, though, that there's no mention of Bruce actually returning to the role of Batman. This being the second time Dick Grayson filled Bruce's shoes and with the effort to make the role his own, I think they're actually stick with him being Batman. Plus Batman and Robin tend to need to counterbalance each other.
The current Robin, Damian Wayne, is a lot like Bruce - dark, obsessive, pompous and resilient. But since he's like eleven years old, he comes off as a rebellious brat. We're talking about a kid who thinks he could be Batman right now and likes to tell Dick to step aside. Dick Grayson has always been more optimistic, which is why he has to reinvent Batman on his terms and incorporate what he can from Bruce that still suits him. And he feels the need to mentor Damian like Bruce mentored him, show him the ropes and try to temper him a bit.
Anyway, here's the covers for the summer event "The Return of Bruce Wayne."
Return of Bruce Wayne covers
I'm partial to Cowboy Batman and Detective Bruce Wayne.
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