Comments on: Bruce Wayne will return in a time-spanning miniseries by Grant Morrison

By: darkomega

darkomega — Sun, 09 May 2010 11:29:07 +0000

What are you people on?

Batman and Cap killed, both shot into alternate timeines, Their sidekicks taking their places ( actually being popular in these roles) Both characters fighting to find their way back to the present, both having to be ‘reborn’ in their respective universes in mini series..all within months of each other, yet this is all some fantastic ‘coincidence’.

Some people will believe any old sh*t.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:53:14 +0000

dude, if bruce is coming back through time won’t he just be able to stop joe chill from killing his parents and in theory make it so batman never existed?

-kinda an interesting thought ive been having

By: john

john — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:43:38 +0000

i just want to see bruce wayne back

By: Valkyrie Gondul

Valkyrie Gondul — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:40:07 +0000

Perhaps by being too concerned on the minor details of a story and worrying about what’s a copy of what or that something is going too far away from reality we are limiting the creative pool of where a comic writer is willing to go with their stories. They want it to be acceptable and noncontroversial so that it will sell well, and the only way to do that is by coming up with repetitive stories and gimmicks.
But, stay the same for too long and a story will either stagnate or end entirely. Keep the twists and turns going and it will continue freshly. Though, sometimes I still wonder if it really will even be possible for Bruce to remain ageless and unchanged for the next decade or so.
But more so…if you stick with the same old formula and the keep coming up with the stories that send Batman out into his own familiar ground and deal with nothing but familiar enemies with familiar endings then more than anything you will ALWAYS end up with the same thing.
Boring stories.
But Morrison is random and chaotic. He’s got the stuff that keeps a story twisting, so even when something seems like a normal run of the mill story…when written by him, I doubt it will be, and that’s what makes it exciting.
Also, about Bruce letting Dick Grayson be Batman, you have to remember a couple of things. Bruce made a promise to avenge his parents, and two, he is also a perfectionist. I’m not sure -he’d- be completely happy with somebody else in the costume while he’s permanently on the sidelines. Only thing that would stop him from being Batman is old age. Even losing limbs, I think he’d be driven enough to replace those with cybernetics and -still- keep rolling with the punches. Cause it’s what he does. He’s Batman after all.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:49:44 +0000

i dont care how they do it…

just BRING BRUCE WAYNE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!

not that i don’t enjoy seeing Dick Grayson as Batman….
Dick is my second favorite character next to Bruce.

but Bruce Wayne is Batman and Batman IS Bruce Wayne!!!!

it would actually be pretty cool if Dick stayed as Batman and he and Bruce double canvased Gotham!!!
2 Batmans 2 Robins? might work?

but then again…what do i know? i’m just happy they are bringing him back pirate or NOT!!!

as for this whole Captain America thing….

i don’t read Captain America so i could care less!!!!!

By: alton

alton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:08:44 +0000

It’s really unfortunate that both the establishment of Dick Grayson as Batman and Barnes as Captain America aren’t going to stick.It’s time to move on people.Marvel and DC have nothing but exploitation and marketing in mind and the wacked idea that the original concepts are iconic and somehow sit in the same catagory as Sherlock Holmes,Long John Silver or Scrooge and can’t be changed.This is nothing but creative stagnation and we perpetuate this by continuing to buy this drivel.Actually what is missing here are the behind the scenes confabs where the editors and lead writers of both companies got together years ago to plan this shared continuity for the eventual merger of DC and Marvel which will make them all undeservedly richer at our expense.Then they can continue to sell the same story over and over again to the idiots who defend these people and are willing to shell out for this crap at higher and higher prices.

By: D.S.

D.S. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:51:43 +0000

Batman has already been a pirate it was called Leatherwing. Accept the pirate batman in that story was more of “Mutiny on the Bounty”esque or you know looked more like the Dread Pirate Roberts. Personally I think that type of apperence of a pirate suits batman more than a pirate with a dread lock beard.

By: NeonBlackDays

NeonBlackDays — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:43:48 +0000

I cant believe everyone is reacting so negatively to this, i mean it does sound like it could end up a disappointment, but to me everything Morrison has done with Bats has been one amazing ride after another.

as for being similar to cap’s story, sure the story line is close, but im sure the journey is gonna be completely different and isn’t that whats important, not the premise?

and if Batman 666 is any indication the future for the bat family looks to be Bruce and Dick Both assuming the Batman role, with Bruce commanding Dick and with Damien in the Robin roll being commanded by Dick.

As i said before, this premise doesnt interest me, but I will be gettin it because Morrison never continues to surprise me with unbelievable twists and turns to make an unbelievable story.

By: Daniel McGowan

Daniel McGowan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:48:52 +0000

@Samir, so you like your Batman stories grounded firmly in reality? Like a billionaire crime fighter who’s nemesis is a man who fell into a vat of chemicals and came out the other end a criminal mastermind clown.

By: Samir

Samir — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:12:42 +0000

@daniel, because it seems as a stupid idea… i love comic books, i can read anything if it has a great story in it, but this seems so cheap, it just following a trend, its like colgate (marvel) and crest (dc) fighting for the number 1 selling spot regarless of how ridiculous the story can be, as long as it sells right? like jeph loeb with Rulk or Ultimate run, that was just junk, but of course Marvel is a selling machine, far from what had become on the 90s and 80s. Thier battle brings Bruce Wayne to a viking-caveman-pirate, i mean, cmon that sounds like a bed time story. Dont get me wrong, i hope that morrison can come with a great idea, i really hope so, though i dont have my hopes up.

By: Daniel McGowan

Daniel McGowan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:52:05 +0000

If you can’t enjoy a story about viking/caveman/pirate Batman, why are you even reading comics?

By: gray

gray — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:48:49 +0000

Rip off or not, this is probably going to be off the wall crazy, Morrison-style. I’m pretty excited about that.

Seriously, Batman is gonna be a pirate. How could that suck? HOW COULD THAT SUCK?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:27:43 +0000

Sean p Belcher wrote:
Seriously, it’s coincidence, not plagiarism.

which is true but it’s still a lame ass idea. am I the only one who thought that Final Crisis sucked! But Morrison seems to out do himself this time with this bunk crap. You’re hearing it first—Morrison’s slippin’.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:35:29 +0000

What in the blue hell did I just read? Seriously. PIRATE BATMAN???? Grant Morrison and Dan DiDio need to go somewhere far away on vacation and never come back.

By: AltF4

AltF4 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:07:10 +0000

Isn’t this absolutely similar to the “Superman:Time and time” again plot?

By: A.J.

A.J. — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:39:17 +0000

“It’s Bruce Wayne’s ultimate challenge — Batman vs. history itself!”

Batman is going to totally WRECK HISTORY’S FACE.

By: Mr Hughes

Mr Hughes — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:52:08 +0000

Okay enough with “We’ll gee haven’t we seen this before?” comments. I think that I’ll actually read the books before I disparage them.

By: Genius Jones

Genius Jones — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:17:41 +0000

There has been time travel in Batman stories before. If anything, Morrison is once again drawing inspiration from the Silver Age, and such stories as Batman #93′s “The Caveman Batman” (1955) in which Batman and Robin travel back to pre-history. I believe this story has been long in the making for him, and I’m looking forward to it. Hopefully it will be one of his successful updates of Silver Age ideology, a la Animal Man and All-Star Superman.

By: Spanky

Spanky — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:18:15 +0000

I would like to see Dick remain Batman a little longer. And no one is ripping off anybody else! So shut up about it!

By: kimc

kimc — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:10:44 +0000

wow I think thats a good idea..