Originally Posted by
BatsUSA
For some readers Superman Jon Kent and Wonder Girl Yara (among other new characters) have a very different origin.
You wouldn't mind giving their origin stories to your children as "heroic" stories. We have a different situation here.
As a reader who tried to get interested in Future State, in the event Bruce Wayne decided to (deservedly) retire as Batman.
They lost me altogether with Tim Jace Fox's origin in Second Son. To me that was a huge disaster.
I am surprised there has been no discussion on Jace's origin as "Batman," as I thought it was very controversial to say the least.
I don't know how they continue with that path and be successful here in this series. They hint at it.
But at some point unaware readers will be curious, and some will be pretty shocked.
But for context, Saturday 9/18 was "Batman Day" on Twitter. There were at least 145,000 Tweets. I searched for some on Jace. I found 13 (total).
I don't think DC has thought this through the entire way. It is one thing to kill off Earth-Two Batman, as they did in 1979. Totally different to work to get rid of Bruce Wayne as Batman in mainstream comics.
I know there was that effort with Azrael. But those were different commercial times, and WB didn't have as much invested in major films/videos, as they do now, and are dependent on their success. I think it is the wrong change at the wrong time for WB.
I guess we will see what future sales are like on this series. If they are anything like digital only "Second Son," they might be going digital only on this series too.