Yeah, I've been hearing rumors about the end of Bruce Wayne for a while. I can do nothing but wait and see. (And I frickin HATE Grant Morrison. Seriously.)
Batman suffers from most of the same problems as the XBooks and any 60 year old series dealing with the same character. The main problem is that you can't generally progress beyond a certain point. Batman (and most other comicbook characters) doesn't get old. He doesn't die.
So the writers are stuck with Batman in his mid-thirties, even as the rest of his extended family age (Nightwing, Batgirl and Robin, for example).
To combat the problem of the never ending story, comic book writers come up with all kinds of weird stuff. With the XMen (and Spider Man. And Captain America. And the Avengers.), these writers just come up with MORE weird stuff that is more EXTREMELY weird (IMO).
So we'll see what they do with Bruce Wayne. Hopefully they won't screw him up on a Marvel-scale.
Sun, 04/20/2008 - 5:01pm
Yeah, I've been hearing rumors about the end of Bruce Wayne for a while. I can do nothing but wait and see. (And I frickin HATE Grant Morrison. Seriously.)
Batman suffers from most of the same problems as the XBooks and any 60 year old series dealing with the same character. The main problem is that you can't generally progress beyond a certain point. Batman (and most other comicbook characters) doesn't get old. He doesn't die.
So the writers are stuck with Batman in his mid-thirties, even as the rest of his extended family age (Nightwing, Batgirl and Robin, for example).
To combat the problem of the never ending story, comic book writers come up with all kinds of weird stuff. With the XMen (and Spider Man. And Captain America. And the Avengers.), these writers just come up with MORE weird stuff that is more EXTREMELY weird (IMO).
So we'll see what they do with Bruce Wayne. Hopefully they won't screw him up on a Marvel-scale.
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