Fabian Nicieza Talks about Bruce Wayne's Road Home

Bruce Wayne: The Road Home consists of eight self-contained, but interconnected one-shots written by various creative teams and each highlighting a major player in Batman's life and their reaction to his return to the modern day DC Universe.

Writer Fabian Nicieza, (current writer of Red Robin) talks about his participation in this project. Well, aside from the fact that he wrote three out of this eight one-shots, he’s also the man DC entrusted to design this whole ‘The Road Home’ thing. So if you want to know something about this project, who do you think is the right man to ask other than him?

Now, let’s hear it from the man himself:


'Road Home' titles seem to be exploring Bruce's return and the impact that he has on the lives of the characters

Fabian: Yes, but it's more than that, too. The way it's working out is that it's a continuing story told in self-contained single issues. There is an absolute running through line in the books. There's two running through lines, really. One of which is Bruce Wayne's return and how he is evaluating the current status quo of the individual characters that are involved in the one-shots, as well as gauging the role those characters may or may not play in his larger plans, which is "Batman, Inc." The majority of the characters he is evaluating don't even know that he's returned. Some of them find out during the course of their individual one-shots; some of them don't learn yet at all. It depended on how each individual story worked out, and that's part of the self-contained aspect of the issues. Each issue has its own story to tell that's part of what these characters do during their evaluations.

The second running through line in all the books - which is actually picking up cleanly off a running subplot that's been going on in the Bat-family for a year now - is Vicki Vale's knowledge of the secret identities of Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Tim Drake. She has knowledge of this, but she doesn't technically have proof. She can't print a story until she has proof, so she's trying to find proof. That running subplot is picked up on to a lesser or a greater extent in the individual one-shots. By the later chapters in the event, it takes on a greater focus.


About him writing three out of eight of this one-shots

Fabian: Originally, I was only going to write one of the one-shots, two at most, but I lobbied to be able to write "Red Robin." Mike (Martz) wanted me to write the first "chapter" and the last one, which were the "Batman and Robin" and "Ra's al Ghul" one-shots, but I really whined a lot that I didn't really want anyone else writing the "Red Robin."




I even tried to see if Chris Yost had a free minute so we could co-write it. I was trying to get my fingers into that one, no matter what. I understand that having me write three of them are more than most readers, retailers and DC sales guys would prefer, but the only other option would have involved whoever else was chosen to write "Red Robin" dying in a tragic brake-line cutting accident before they could have finished their script. So, lots of whining, maybe an implied threat to the life of an innocent writer and several compromising pictures later, Mike acquiesced and let me write "Red Robin."


What can he say about Bruce's reaction to Damian being Robin and his thoughts on how Dick has been shepherding him?

Without giving too much away, Bruce's narrative in the story is about him coming to a sense of conclusion about how he feels about watching them in action. I don't want to give too much away about how he feels, because that's the emotional flow of the story, but I can say that you can imagine he might feel tremendous pride at what Dick has been able to accomplish, and possibly even a little bit of insecurity or jealousy that maybe it's been done far more easily than Bruce expected.


His approach to writing Dick and Damian as Batman and Robin

I approach Damian as who he is now: longing to be Robin. As far as Dick is concerned, he's my favorite character in comics and has been since I was about six or seven years old. I'm the wrong guy to ask, because in my opinion he should be the leader of the free DC Universe. The fact that he was able to assume the role of Batman - although he wasn't necessarily thrilled about it - and comfortably make it his own so quickly is a testament to the character. It's enjoyable for me as a reader to see other writers get it and have him smoothly assuming a leadership role in the Justice League with all the other characters accepting it, or to see writers understand how he would interact with Commissioner Gordon and handle Gotham City cops in a way that is so different than how Bruce does it. The writers who understand Dick Grayson, and I honestly don't think there are that many of us, have clearly had fun writing him, but they've enabled a whole lot of readers who didn't understand the character to see him shine in a new light.

Source(s): CBR, DC

Pat Gleason Covers Batman and Robin

We are already informed that this November, Peter Tomasi and Pat Gleason will be teaming up to take over Batman and Robin,the book launched by Grant Morrison last year, will continue to star Dick Grayson in the lead role with Damian Wayne as his young sidekick Robin.

Newsarama had a chat with Tomasi about his debut on the said book. Read it HERE

Now, here's Gleason's covers for the 17th and 18th issue of Batman and Robin.

Batman 702 Annotations

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BATMAN 702


Title: RIP: The Missing Chapter
Part 1: Batman's Last Case
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist and Cover: Tony Daniel
















Page 1

Days to Omega: 27
Location: The Hall of Justice

Superman declares “Condition Amber” to all the JLA members (Final Crisis #1 pg. 24).

Page 2-3

Batman takes the Radion Bullet and puts it in his utility belt to bring it to the Bat-Cave to further analyze it.

Note: Batman taking the Radion Bullet was first revealed in Batman #683 pg. 22 where he also began his recording regarding this event before his “death”.



Everything that Batman narrated in this issue is part of this recording which I suppose is addressed to Superman.

Page 4

Batman explains his theory (the Radion Bullet being the essence of all bullets) to Wally West, the Flash.

Note: We must remember that Wally West is the Flash from Grant’s JLA run so a chat between these two is not a surprise anymore.

This is also the theory that Wally mentioned to Jay Garrick in Final Crisis #2 pg. 28-29


Page 5

This scene, Superman talking to Batman outside the Hall of Justice first appeared in Final Crisis #2 pg. 20

“Essence of bullet” elaborated. Batman has this theory that the New Gods, their ways, and their artifacts are the essence of things rather than things themselves. For him, the New Gods are ideas that happen to interact with the real world. Just like Metron introducing fire to Anthro, thus born the discovery of fire to mankind. Darkseid’s Radion Bullet, the bullet that kills Orion, is the archetype of all bullets.

Note: In Final Crisis #6, Batman says “A gun and a bullet, Darkseid. It was your idea”.



At the time, it seemed that Batman was speaking only of Orion’s death, but here, he’s speaking of every such death. It is the origin of all the bullets that end many lives known to mankind, including his parents'.

Page 6-7

“that imprint on your palm”

Note: In Final Crisis #2, while investigating the crime scene (at Metropolis’ docks where Orion’s body was found) green lantern John Stewart was attacked by another green lantern, and was crucified by the attacker’s constructs to a shipping crate. Before he was put down, John tried to break free. He rips his arm from where it was pinned and punches his attacker’s hand.



Later it was revealed that John’s attacker is alpha lantern Kraken possessed by Granny Goodness, Batman discovered it when he saw the imprint of John’s ring in Kraken’s palm.

Batman calls for ‘Black Alert’. He tried to stop Kraken by killing the nerve cluster in her wrist but failed.

Kraken’s constructs are of giant centipedes. Batman says that her constructs felt like Joker Venom, Fear Gas, and Doctor Hurt’s smile all at once.



Note: Flowers in Arkham garden had these hideous centipedes crawling out of them in Joker’s fantasy of murdering Robin, Nightwing and Gordon using his Joker Venom, which he saw in the ink-blot test that Le Bossu gave him (Batman 676).






Batman believes that the New Gods are the essence of things. This suggests that Granny Goodness’ attack using Kraken’s constructs is the origin of all the things that Batman mentioned. Things that made him confront his worst fears.

“Too late I saw the shape of the trap that had been waiting for me since the day I was born.”

Batman blacked out after he vomited. The last panel is a black rectangle, the shape of an empty, deep grave. Death, his own mortality, is the ultimate trap, set for him since the day he was born.

Page 8

Days to Omega: 25
Location: Evil Factory, Bludhaven

Instead of Turpin, Batman is the one who said “there’s someone in my head”(Final Crisis #2 pg. 25).



Is this some kind of editorial error? Who knows?

Page 9

That “someone” inside Batman’s head is the Lump.

Note: The Lump is a powerful telepath and shape shifter from Apokolips.



In Final Crisis, Simyan and Mokkari used the Lump to help create an army of Batman Clones. The Lump toured in Batman’s mind for 25 days disguised as Alfred Pennyworth, His goal is taking Batman through his memories, to feed the clones with the determination and skill of Batman. However, Batman detected him which led to a mental battle between the two.

The emotional energy caused by this began killing the Batman Clones. To stop the mental link, Mokkari shot the Lump to death. Still inside Batman’s mind, the Lump feels he’s slowly dying. Batman swore if the Lump helped him, he would find the Lump's killers. From being an enemy, the Lump became Batman’s ally. Lump set Batman free before he disintegrates. Batman’s captors ran away when they saw him gets free, leaving Batman’s utility belt and the gun that they used to kill the Lump.

Lump’s tour inside Batman’s head is detailed in Batman #682-683.

Page 10-11


“There are HOLES in my awareness and they seem to be getting BIGGER”

As he breaks free, Batman sensed that he’s beginning to lose his memory, probably caused by the green syringes injected in his head.

“I can remember the smell of ANTISEPTIC, fear and human waste. It was as if I’d woken in a prison hell of BROKEN GLASS and chemicals where the dead men in the jars all had MY FACE.”


Note: This echoes the memories that the Clone-Batman repeats to Damian in Batman and Robin #9.















“I realized THEY hadn’t prepared for ANY of this.”

“That Hole in Things was EVERYWHERE. It was there in every BEST LAID PLAN.”

Batman remarks of his escape from the Evil Factory as what the Evil Gods hadn’t prepared for. Darkseid’s best laid plan succumbs in failure. Nothing’s perfect.

“They ran and left my belt behind…”

Note: Man, if you’re going to trap the Bat make sure that his utility belt is nowhere near him. With his mind and that belt combined, he’s invincible.

Batman found the Radion Bullet still inside his utility belt. Beside the belt is the gun Mokkari used to kill the Lump.

He loads the God-bullet in the gun then walks to find and confront Darkseid. He remembers his chat with Jim Gordon asking him “Why did you have to choose an enemy that’s…bigger than all of us Batman?” (Batman #665 pg. 18)

“I figured I could take him” Batman replied.

Page 12

Seconds to Omega: 00.53
Location: Depths of Command D-Bunker, Bludhaven

Batman came face to face with Darkseid. (Final Crisis #6 pg. 26-27)

“He might have been a WOLF once, a DRAGON or a TYRANT.”

“How MANY TIMES in human history had his moment played out?”

“The MONSTER…and the MAN standing in his way?”

How many times indeed? Whether real life or fictional? A brave knight fighting a dragon, a lone hunter face to face with a fierce wolf, and stories of people who stood up against tyranny.

Page 13

“He knew I WOULDN”T kill his human host but he didn’t knew I had the RADION bullet.”

“And a NEW MYTH of my own”

As Batman fires the gun, Darkseid’s Omega Sanction came out.

“A myth where Ultimate Evil turns its gaze on humanity and humanity gazes right back and says…”

GOTCHA.

Darkseid is the archetype of all terrible beings/ things that have plagued mankind. Batman stood up and fights the Ultimate Evil in front of him. Thus, his counterattack becomes an archetype, too. He now became humanity’s representative to stare down evil and strike fear into it. Batman altered the myth of evil and gave birth to that well known myth titled "Miracle in Crime Alley", Where a young boy gazed back at evil and vows to fight it. ^_^



Page 14-15

Darkseid’s Omega Sanction struck Batman. (Final Crisis #6 pg. 28-29)



And that brings us to this issue's biggest revelation. The Ancestor Box, unlike the “ping ping ping” sound of the Mother Box, this box creates this bell-like sound “domm domm domm”. Perhaps this is the “Bells of the All-Over” that people throughout history hear when they open the Bat-Casket (Return of Bruce Wayne). In addition to that, this box has a many tentacle thing creeping from it. Perhaps the hyper-adapter which the box contains creates the hyperfauna (Return of Bruce Wayne #2). It is likely that of which Jack Valor cannot speak (Return of Bruce Wayne #3) and that which Alan Wayne calls "sickening" (Return of Bruce Wayne #4).







“Then I GOT it.”

“Somehow I knew WHAT he was turning in his hands…”

Page 16-17

“It was TIME”

“time is PLIABLE”

“As I stayed IN PLACE, he manipulated whole CENTURIES around me”.

As the Omega Sanction struck Batman we can see his life flashes before our eyes as time bends and the coincidences and events became a conspiracy meant to trap and bring him Death.

Darkseid described the Omega Sanction as a trap that uses your history and your timeline that will bring you death over and over. It brings its victim in a series of alternate realities, each worse than the previous one.

Being struck by it, Batman’s reality is trapped (e.g, his various death and funeral in Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader - pg.16 panel 4) and his entire history is manipulated (e.g. Willowood Asylum – pg. 17 panel 1).

Trivia: Willowood Asylum is the place in a Pre-Crisis(1) story where Bruce's brain-damaged evil brother Thomas Jr.(2) was sent.

(1) Because of the extensive and substantial changes that the storyline Crisis on Infinite Earths implemented on many titles published by DC Comics, the series became a defining and critical moment in DC Comics' long-standing continuity. Characters and other elements established before the series, especially those eliminated by it, were referred to as pre-Crisis, while revised ones were considered post-Crisis.

(2) Thomas Wayne Jr.

The second son of Thomas and Martha Wayne, and the elder brother of Bruce/Batman. As an infant, Thomas Jr. had suffered head injuries in a car accident, and had been confined to Willowood Asylum for life. Upon his escape, he was manipulated into becoming the assassin known as the "Boomerang Killer" until Batman learned of his existence. In World's Finest #227, Thomas Wayne, Jr. appears to die, sacrificing himself to save his brother's life.



Question: By opening the gates of the said pre-Crisis asylum, could Morrison be opening the door to Thomas Jr. being Doctor Hurt?

Answer: Definitely, NO.

Thomas Wayne Jr. was only three years older than Bruce, Doctor Hurt on the other hand was already an adult in 1980's, clearly too old to be the son of Thomas and Martha.

And we flash to Superman, Tim Drake and Rip Hunter at the JLA Watchtower listening to Batman’s recording device. Somehow Batman’s buddies found his utility belt and listened to these notes, and that might be how they know that Darkseid turned Batman into a Doomsday Weapon. And now they’re (Superman, Hal Jordan, Booster Gold, Rip Hunter) doing all they can to stop him returning to the current timeline, for his return indicates his and humanity’s end.

Page 18

We can see Bruce’s funeral (first seen in Batman #673 and was detailed in Batman #687), and his gravestone beside his parents’.

During his heart attack and his near death experience in Batman #673, did Bruce saw his future? That we don’t know. What we know is, that wasn’t him they buried. It was the Clone-Batman which Dick resurrected using the Lazarus Pit in Batman and Robin #8

“I’m not dead”.

“I know you’ll search for me”.

We can also see Bruce plunges deeper into Darkseid’s trap with his cape and cowl glowing with Omega Radiation indicating that it’s the Doomsday Weapon.

Page 19

Bruce is now inside his pre-historic Bat-Cave. He takes off the cape and the cowl. He has to, because if being Batman is going to lead him to being Darkseid’s greatest doomsday weapon, he’ll have to be just Bruce Wayne to get through and survive. We should know that there’s no such thing as Batman and Bruce Wayne, because both are one man. With or without the cape and the cowl, there’s no doubt that Bruce Wayne IS Batman.

“I can’t remember my NAME anymore”.

Bruce slowly loses his memories as he leaves everything about him being the Batman.

Page 20-22

(Final Crisis #7, Epilogue)

As Bruce goes deeper in the cave he found Anthro who died peacefully upon sensing his arrival.

“I have to crack this maze. Before I forget EVERYTHING.”

“Like Theseus…leave a trail…And mark it with a BAT”.

“My last case…my ultimate trial…”

“Don’t FORGET. SURVIVE”

Bruce takes off his utility belt, and takes out his recording device (which shows us exactly when he last recorded all this information as he lost his memory).

“I should have known when I CHOSE to walk this path”.

“IT NEVER ENDS”.

Note: The path he is referring to is his decision on that very day when he dons the cape and the cowl and vows to fight evil.

Bruce draws the bat on the cavern wall. Now with his memory all gone, he steps out of the cave into the red dawn/dusk which is the very beginning of Return of Bruce Wayne #1.

Bruce Wayne: The Road Home

From Batman Group Editor Mike Marts:

“Bruce Wayne’s journey back home has been a long and dangerous road, but before he can assume the mantle of the Bat again, he must first figure out how things have changed in the world around him, how relationships have changed and how those changes will affect his decisions moving forward as the protector of Gotham City.”








We all know that Bruce Wayne is coming back and as the Return of Bruce Wayne comes to an end, questions on how would the bat-family adapt to Bruce’s apparent return are left hanging.



Leave your worries behind because in October comes BRUCE WAYNE: THE ROAD HOME, eight one-shots that will answer all those questions that trouble you. Every title consists of 32 awesome pages with all 8 covers as connected image, featuring characters that reside on the Bat-universe, made by none other than artist Shane Davis.











Here’s the complete solicitation of ‘Bruce Wayne: The Road Home’ titles hitting in October:


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: BATMAN & ROBIN #1
Written by FABIAN NICIEZA
Art by CLIFF RICHARDS
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME kicks off here as Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne rush to quash a damaging news item that could threaten the secret identities of the entire Bat-family! And as if that weren’t enough to occupy their time, their father figure, Bruce Wayne, has returned…


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: RED ROBIN #1
Written by FABIAN NICIEZA
Art by RAMON BACHS & JOHN LUCAS
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

Master detective Tim Drake takes center stage in this one-shot as the one person who continued to have faith that Bruce Wayne was alive. But now that Tim’s belief is proven accurate, how will that affect the important changes about to bombard the life of Red Robin?


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: BATGIRL #1
Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER
Art by PERE PEREZ
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

Batgirl no more? Is Stephanie Brown’s brief tenure as Batgirl in jeopardy now that Bruce Wayne has returned? Or will Bruce’s homecoming mean bigger and better things for Gotham City’s premier heroine?


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: OUTSIDERS #1
Written by MIKE BARR
Art by TBD
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

Bruce Wayne’s former team of heroes star in this issue penned by longtime OUTSIDERS writer Mike Barr. How will everybody react to the return of their former leader? Featuring Black Lightning, Owlman, Metamorpho and more!


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: CATWOMAN #1
Written by DEREK FRIDOLFS
Art by PETER NGUYEN
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

The last time Selina Kyle saw Bruce Wayne, she was lying in a hospital bed, her life having just been saved by the man she loved. Can Catwoman handle Bruce’s return after having mourned his death?


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: COMMISSIONER GORDON #1
Written by ADAM BEECHEN
Art by SZYMON KUDRANSKI
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

For several months now, Commissioner Jim Gordon has known he’s been working alongside a “different” Batman. But with Bruce Wayne now returned, what will that mean for the future of Gotham City and their own crime fighting chemistry?


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: ORACLE #1
Written by MARC ANDREYKO
Art by AGUSTIN PADILLA
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

Barbara Gordon and Bruce Wayne have long been allies and friends, acting as Gotham City’s primary defenders. Their reunion is sure to have lasting effects on Barbara’s role as Oracle and the other Birds of Prey.


BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME: RA’S AL GHUL #1
Written by FABIAN NICIEZA
Art by TBD
ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 6

From DC:

When Ra’s al Ghul first heard that Bruce Wayne had died, he refused to believe it. Now The Demon’s Head is proven right as his longtime arch enemy returns and the villain’s master plan can continue in earnest…


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BATMAN 701


Title: RIP: The Missing Chapter
Part 1: The Hole in Things
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist and Cover: Tony Daniel

















Page 1 -2: This follows the images above that took place on Batman 681. As Bruce gained consciousness and tried to resurface, we can see that the helicopter carrying Hurt and Lane continues to go down deep.

Page 3: Form of charts showing the weather, the value of stocks, and the stars in the sky are shown, meaning that the world continues to go on while Batman is submerged. We can also see that while Bruce continues swimming, Hurt is alive and now escaping the sinking helicopter.

Page 4-6: Finally, Bruce resurfaced and reached Gotham harbor.

Page 7: Bruce took his emergency cowl from the utility belt as he realized he’s not wearing his cape and cowl which he took off before he jumped unto Hurt’s helicopter. (Refer to 2nd image above)



Note: Why Bruce would remove his cape and cowl during his face-off with Hurt is answered here. Bruce doesn't remember taking his mask off because he didn't do it voluntarily, he did this as a response to the mental command "I must put away my Batman costume and retire from crime fighting" Hurt told him to. A line also concluded to be originally from Batman #156 (As seen in the pages of Batman #674.

Page 8: Upon reaching land, Bruce met Ellie. A former prostitute (Batman#664) now working as a receptionist at Wayne Tech, All thanks to Batman who offered her a job back then.



Page 9-13: Bruce returned to Wayne Manor and into the Bat Cave greeted by Alfred. After some rest and a couple of conversations with the butler he returns to Gotham River to check the wreckage but returned disappointed for he could not find Hurt’s or Lane’s body. This is also a bizarre thought for Bruce. For him, Hurt swimming away from the crash is impossible. More than five minutes go by in addition to the time that it took him to swim out, yet Hurt never resurfaces. And so, Bruce cannot explain Hurt. For him Hurt remains "a ghost", a threat. Alfred doesn't want to accept the supernatural explanation about this but he gets another form of that reply when he sees that the clock in Wayne Manor had stopped at the precise moment of the helicopter crash.

Moments later, Bruce asked Alfred not to be disturbed if afterwards he sleeps for three days.

Note: This is the "three days" reference to Easter from Batman and Robin #13. Sleeping for three days then rising, Bruce will be resurrected.

Page 14-15: Bruce goes to the Barbatos shrine under Wayne Manor. He knows that Hurt had been there, and he sees the paint that Dick Grayson (Batman and Robin #10) discovered as relatively fresh. We find out that Bruce's parents knew about the room and we also find out that Bruce knew about the things that Dick Grayson discovered so recently. But he didn’t know why it was there.



Note: Bruce enters that room through the library in Wayne Manor, standing almost on the exact spot where Doctor Hurt shoots Dick Grayson. He looks at the painting of his parents that is to overlook Dick's shooting. Before the painting there stood a large statue of a black knight in a chess board, it, too, is to look down upon Dick's shooting. (Batman and Robin #13)













Page 16: Blood like skies. Bruce got a call from Superman pertaining to a death of a god (Orion). Here, we can see the importance of Batman’s role in the Justice League and the respect given to him by Superman in handling this important case.

Page 17-21: An angry Bruce holds a newspaper, almost crashing it. Alfred assured his master that the scandals in the articles are not true, but it’s not the scandals that upset Bruce; it’s the Bat-costume that his father wore years before, a possession he treasured, and is now in the hands of Hurt. The conversation between him and Alfred skipped to what Hurt had told him. Bruce bears in mind the curse that was bestowed upon him. The next time he wears his cape and cowl will be his last.

Still, Bruce’s will was too strong for him to retire from crime-fighting and so once again, The dark knight detective wore the cape and the cowl and headed to the case he was assigned to, without having a single clue but only a hole in the ground.



Note: Bruce ends the issue looking at a hole. But more important, he calls Hurt a hole. An empty space. An absence. Bruce has an empty space in his life; an enemy who is an absence represents not Bruce's father but the hole in his life where his father should be. Bruce suspects that Hurt goes back in his own family tree. A dark twin. An anti-Thomas Wayne. An anti-Bruce as well. As Bruce is the one who sleeps for three days then rises, an anti-Bruce is symbolically an anti-Christ.











Next Issue: The Conclusion of “RIP: The Missing Chapter”


Until then.

Joker: I Started A Joke

WARNING: The image you are about to see is a disturbing one. So, do you want to proceed? Or, do you want to proceed?



Above is an image from the pages of Batman and Robin #13. Here, Damian Wayne who is the new Robin, is beating the Joker into a pulp with the use of a crowbar. I added the scene from A Death in the Family where Joker did the same thing to poor Jason Todd on the background to make it more intense.

Serves him right? right?

Hope you guys like it.

A New Team Will Takeover Batman and Robin

I got some good news and bad news for you guys. The bad news is writer Grant Morrison will write Batman and Robin no more. Sad, right? Wait. The good news is another creative team will takeover the title.

Writer Peter Tomasi and artist Patrick Gleason will be reuniting as the regular team for Batman and Robin, starting in November. They are the team behind Green Lantern Corps.


Peter Tomasi is best known for his writing ability on some Batman-related books such as Nightwing,The Outsiders, and Blackest Night: Batman.



While Patrick Gleason is known for his brilliant covers on Robin.

What do these guys have in store for the dynamic duo? Let's hear it from them.

Peter:

“I’m incredibly excited to be working on BATMAN AND ROBIN! I mean who the hell wouldn’t be?!? I’ve enjoyed my few forays into the Bat Universe with NIGHTWING, BATMAN: BLACKEST NIGHT, and BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS, and was always hoping I’d get a chance to tackle a main Bat book, so to be able to take the monthly reins from Grant on such a tremendous book is a dream come true and it’s going to be a blast, especially when my partner in crime is artist Patrick Gleason, who I’ve had a great working relationship over in GREEN LANTERN CORPS!”

Patrick:

“I can’t wait to get started! Drawing Batman, Robin and Gotham city is something I’ve dreamt of sinking my teeth into for a very long time! Recently I’ve even had to start carrying around a sketchbook wherever I go because I constantly get these ideas of cool images, or random details that I want to use somewhere in the book.

I am incredibly grateful to DC for the opportunity to be added to the list of fine talent who have laid pen and pencil to the Dark Knight. Also I’m very happy to continue working with Peter Tomasi. With him at the helm you just know we’re in good hands and Batman and Robin will continue to be a great ride!”

Oh! Did i forgot to mentioned that Peter Tomasi was a former Batman editor?

Looks Like Dr. Hurt Doesn't Stand A Chance

When I saw this, I got troubled because...


A page from Batman and Robin #13

I remembered this...

A page from Batman #666

Then I saw this...and I smiled.


Cover for Batman and Robin #16