Batman RIP, But Not Reborn

Of all the announcements from Wondercon this retiring weekend , not one of them shed any igniter on the rumour that Batman was going to drop dead and become reborn as one of DC ’s “ New Gods ” during this summer ’s Final Crisis upshot . As it turns out , Batman and Final Crisis author Grant Morrison was online during WonderCon weekend , talking to Newsarama about how that rumor got embark on , as well as what he does to do to the Dark Knight .

blab out about the death / rebirth rumor , Morrison explained where that got started :

When we first speak about Final Crisis , amount out of the Seven Soldiers series , I had the New Gods cast down onto Earth , and because they ’d lose their former shape , they were roll as heart or avatars possessing human bodies , like Voodoo gods [ as shown in Seven soldier : Mr. Miracle ] .

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For a abbreviated second back in 2006 , I talk over the estimate that the gods could then take over the bodies of intimate DC theatrical role – so that an appropriate hero or villain could become the new Orion or Darkseid , say , and someone every bit appropriate would become the novel Lightray , kind of affair .

That did n’t find because no one wanted to mess with either Jack Kirby ’s or Gerry Conway ’s intellectual property by say Lightray was now inhabiting Firestorm or something like that . Quite justly , no - one was willing to change live DC fiber into Kirby quality , because that would immediately jumble the ownership of the theatrical role and somebody would get cheated out of fairness if that character was used in a movie or TV show or whatever . It ’s very much a right of first publication issue .

patently , someone heard some dim eld - old echo of this discarded idea and pawned it into the notion that Bruce Wayne was going to become a New God . That was never going to happen . That ’s just insane . ( laughs )

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And as to what is in Bruce Wayne ’s hereafter ?

I can tell you this much – this is the first story I had planned when Peter Tomasi , the editor at the time , asked me to do Batman , which must have been two days ago now … longer . And the very first tale deed of conveyance I noted down was “ Batman RIP ” . I had a especial double for the cover , which Alex Ross has done a bang - zoom- thousand - times - better version of for the second part of the story .

So it come from there … and out of that whimsey came the idea for the big overarching report I ’ve been telling since I first came on the al-Qur’an . Everything … the “ Zur - En - Arrh ” graffito , the Joker prose story , the Club of Heroes … every contingent that ’s been in the Holy Scripture for the last twosome of years is meaning , everything is a clue to the grand design that ’s unfolding .

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My running on Batman is a 25 - chapter novel that reach its sexual climax in “ RIP ” and maneuvers Batman into the greatest peril he ’s ever known , at the mercy of the world ’s deadly criminal lunatic .

And yeah , I ’ve seen all kind of speculation about “ RIP , ” but it ’s not of necessity what people think it ’s going to be , although there are very enceinte changes come to Batman . When we say that this is the write up that changes the legend of the Dark Knight eternally , we ’re quite serious about that .

babble out Batman with Grant Morrison[Newsarama ]

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