Bruce Wayne Is Coming Back As a Swashbuckling Douchebag in 2010
Bruce Wayne is going to be done finger-painting on caveman walls with his own feces in 2010. Even more impressive than how they killed him off twice in 2008 is the fact that they’re going to return him to the functions of the regular DC Universe next year. It’s a bit disappointing, since I was really digging the implications of old Gray Son wearing the mask. It was fun watching him figuring out how to pull off his own identity underneath the crushing symbol, and learning how to wield said logo with his own swag.
Alas.
But we all knew Wayne was coming back. So the question becomes, how well can they write the return of the Original Traumatized Billionaire? Grant Morrison is hitting the drugs hard as usual and coming up with something that’ll make me hard, and probably everyone else very, very confused. We have some sort of temporal, mind-warping bullshit that only the guy who proclaimed he had been abducted by aliens could produce:
Via CBR:
Debuting in April 2010, the aptly named Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne finds the character — presumed dead after the events of Final Crisis but actually hurled into the far-flung past — attempting to reclaim his memory and his place in time.”Return is a fairly intricate time-travel story in which the world’s greatest hero, the optimum man, is up against the supreme challenge to his ingenuity and skill,” Morrison tells USA Today. “How does Batman get out of the ultimate trap? It has a mystery and an apocalyptic countdown going on, there are some major twists and reveals, and it sets up big changes to the Batman universe status quo.”
It sounds trippy, if not reminiscent of Brubaker’s take on bringing Steve Rogers back, which features him…also tumbling through time and space. We’re going to get Jack Sparrow-Batman, Conon-Batman, and Dick Tracy-Batman. And the big changes to the Batman universe status quo? Batman actually was the engineer behind the H1N1 flu…and AIDS…and Cancer. All under the guise, of course, of being prepared to take down the JLA when they go rogue or some shit. Dude needs therapy.
Seriously.
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December 10th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Is it just me or does Morrisons “Batman through time” idea sound like a DC ‘Elseworlds’ plot?
December 10th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
So, have you been following Morrison’s whole Batman run? I ran across a crazy theory that blew my mind the other day. Speculative Spoilers, I guess.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:10 am
E: Allyn Gibson’s speculation is actually really great. Wayne inhabiting Damian’s body becoming the new Robin and leaving Dick as Batman is actually a pretty great twist. Unfortunately I just don’t think Morrison is that clever.
December 11th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
That would be pretty hawt if that happened. I’ve been reading Morrison’s entire run, and I’ve enjoyed it. However, I’m madly in love with his B&R, especially with Quitely. I’m bummed they’re going back to Mr. Wayne so soon. I had no delusions that he was gone forever – you need to have Wayne around once they put out Batman 3: Penguins and Cats or whatever, but I thought it’d last longer.
December 11th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Thanks for the props for my Batman theory.
For what it’s worth, at work (I work in the comics industry), my colleagues think the theory about Bruce being a spirit moving through his own bloodline is awesome — but far too clever for DC to ever come up with or use.
I’m really happy with Dick as Batman, as compared to fifteen years ago when I wasn’t happy with Jean-Paul as Batman. (And I actually liked Jean-Paul. But in retrospect, you can tell he wasn’t supposed to be a long-term character.) If Bruce comes back as Batman, I don’t know where Dick goes — or what the point of his character is.
The next year is going to be pretty interesting.