Batman #84 Talk.

[Batman Begins 2005]

Two good things about the issue. Jorge Fornes art and we're an issue away from King's time on the main Batman book coming to an end. You'll be drunk early with the amount of earliers here.

[AnakinFlair]

Thanks for the recap, King. Now GET TO THE DAMN FIGHT!!!!!!!

[K. Jones]

I appreciate a good continuity-pluck issue. Fornes art made it really work for me, and I was in it for the art more than anything. I dunno, I guess we get a solid motive. And some nice continuity cross-referencing. This one feels like the "how long did this take?" Geoff Johns Crossover issue. With a Brian Azzarello Crossover built in. It still doesn't solve the problem of City of Bane being undercut as a concept by the fact that it was never actually a City of Bane story. King's thesis statement might be that "Bane is Evil" but the story told presents a thesis that "Bane is Bullshit". No more than a physical threat to Batman, always ignorantly being the pawn of other players.

[Arnoldoaad]

I think the biggest problem on this final part of the run is the death of Alfred
It is hard to recoincile what Thomas wants to do taking in what he did with Bane and the dead of alfred despite being unintended by the run does stick up like a soar thumb

[Nero]

The conclusion I got from this issue is that Flashpoint Batman should have been left alone instead of being shoehorned into becoming Darth Batman.

[Denirac]

The Conclusion I got from this- Eobard is now a Batman Villain. Can't wait for "I murdered your parents, Bruce." /s

[Batman Begins 2005]

The conclusion I got from this issue is that Flashpoint Batman should have been left alone instead of being shoehorned into becoming Darth Batman.

This. I'll stick to the Flashpoint event, the story by Azzarello and the Button crossover for Flashpoint Batman.

[Astralabius]

The conclusion I got from this issue is that Flashpoint Batman should have been left alone instead of being shoehorned into becoming Darth Batman.

Yep. Thomas Wayne is ruined in my eyes.

[BlueandGold]

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[johnpeelgothisgun]

I doubt there will be any fighting.

There will be on the cover. But only on the cover.

edit: Or maybe King will pull a real shocker and request a cover relevant to the manifest content of the issue. Or???!!! the cover will be tame and prosaic but inside will be an actual fight.

[Desmark]

I think Doctor Manhattan will cameo to whisk FB away leaving his fate uncertain

[Ansa]

There will be on the cover. But only on the cover.

edit: Or maybe King will pull a real shocker and request a cover relevant to the manifest content of the issue. Or???!!! the cover will be tame and prosaic but inside will be an actual fight.

The batfamily is on the cover so expect them to continue to not matter. They weren't even drawn in 84 even though they are present. Other possibility is King pulls an unearned "they are family" moment out of his ass like in 81.

[johnpeelgothisgun]

The batfamily is on the cover so expect them to continue to not matter. They weren't even drawn in 84 even though they are present. Other possibility is King pulls an unearned "they are family" moment out of his ass like in 81.

Maybe they defeat the monster dad through the power of friendship.