One rumor I’ve heard from people who know so much more about comics than I do, is that the whole idea for this Batman R.I.P storyline, is so they can give the Batman character a complete new reboot.
After 80 years of Batman stories and 681 issues of the character (not to mention Detective Comics and the hundreds of other issue spin-offs), they believe the character has gone as far as he could possibly go and the universe just doesn’t make that much sense anymore.
How many times can we really see Batman battle The Joker and not kill him, the many deaths of Robin’s etc?
And because of the work of Christopher Nolan and his billion dollar live action franchise bringing an added interest not just to the character but comics in general, we have been hearing since BATMAN BEGINS that DC were tempted to start again from that very first night in Bruce’s childhood and re-do issue No. 1. but in the fully realistic environment which Nolan has mapped out.
Something tells me that after THE DARK KNIGHT made as much money as it did, this has become even more of a lucrative prospect.
So here’s the question to you. Would you support a new restart of the Batman franchise which was set in a Nolanized Gotham which has infinite possibilities over the next ten years or so, freeing up the character and giving us introductions to characters like Harvey Dent, The Riddler, The Joker etc for the first time.
Can you imagine if they stretched out the turn of Harvey Dent in the comics for like a decade and had him as a good guy for so long?
Would you buy the issues, non-comic book fans? It would be a great place to start with a character you might not have previously bothered with because of the intimating decades long back story?
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I believe that comics, movies and TV are totally different universes and one has nothing to do with another. I think eventually we will see the older Batman story in the movies. I would love to see Keaton reprise his role of Bruce Wayne/ Batman in his 50’s coming out of retirement to clean up Gotham city!. The film would make a fortune. It would have nothing to do with Nolan’s brilliant universe and fans are smart enough to understand that. The same with Smallville. The show is good again this year and building momentum. Clark Kent needs to fly and become Superman. That decision to me should have nothing to do with WB Superman movie franchise.
Chuck
I don’t read the comics, but why create a comic universe based on a film universe that doesn’t completely embrace the DCU? If it’s an Elseworlds story or something, it makes sense. But, not as part of the main DCU. Just doesn’t seem right to me.
that wouldn’t work without bruce wayne as batman, and taking him out of the dc proper, so it will never happen. but they’d be doing the quality of the books a favour if they kept him in gotham and away from the space aliens and magicians and goodness knows what else. he’s a pulp hero and works best with ‘grounded’ villains.