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Fan mourns Batman’s ‘death,’ apparently doesn’t get how comics work
Batman #686
Okay, this one’s a bit sad, and a little funny. Oh, and maybe creepy.
Seventy-two-year-old Frik van Lingen of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, who read Batman comics when he was growing up, took the recent “death” of Bruce Wayne pretty hard.
How hard, you ask? So hard that he placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform other Batman fans that the superhero’s alter ego “is no more.”
“Batman was my super-hero,” van Lingen tells The Herald. “I must have been in primary school when I started reading comic books. No one knows who‘s going to fill his big boots. He was too nice a guy. He fought criminals. He just can’t die.”
Well, at least he got that last part right.
- February 18, 2009 @ 07:11 AM by Kevin Melrose
4 Comments
Rich
February 18, 2009 at 7:25 am
Read the article. I guess his son forgot to keep him updated after all.
ejulp (John)
February 18, 2009 at 7:35 am
…and two Wednesdays later he felt foolish.
Wiiilbur
February 18, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Batman died?
Joe
February 19, 2009 at 5:46 am
Perhaps he didn’t read Final Crisis? Or maybe he just didn’t understand it? As difficult as it was for people whose primary language is English, I could only imagine how difficult it must have been for those who learned English as a second or third language.