Batman and Batfamily Solicitations for October 2017

[WontonGirl]

Don't get me wrong. If she says NO, I don't think that's the end for them. Quite the contrary. I think King is gonna try to tell a love story about them. I think he will do that.

[gwangung]

I actually think that would be very uninteresting. Batman not being able to be happy/in a committed relationship has 80+ years of comics I can go read. Only 1 of these paths is groundbreaking and it isn't the one where he is rejected.

Hm. This suggests to me, "Batman struggling to make a committed relationship work and be happy" as a storyline. I would definitely find THAT to be relatable.

[The Whovian]

Dang it DC! Just take my money!!

[millernumber1]

Hm. This suggests to me, "Batman struggling to make a committed relationship work and be happy" as a storyline. I would definitely find THAT to be relatable.

Agreed! I think it has real potential for great stories.

[WontonGirl]

Hm. This suggests to me, "Batman struggling to make a committed relationship work and be happy" as a storyline. I would definitely find THAT to be relatable.

Really? I would want the relationship to be part of what makes him happy, lol!

I don't want to see "I thought this would make me happy, nope, time to break up" Bruce Wayne either. That's just another way to say Batman has to be alone.

Look, I don't think people want to see dancing ponies and rainbows with these two, just I mean, I dunno, have them walk in the house together after a crazy night of patrol, lol!

[Aioros22]

She better say no



No ex girlfriend commits with the Red chicks-dig.me Hood in town!

[WontonGirl]

She better say no



No ex girlfriend commits with the Red chicks-dig.me Hood in town!

Huh? What are you saying?

[dan12456]

Hm. This suggests to me, "Batman struggling to make a committed relationship work and be happy" as a storyline. I would definitely find THAT to be relatable.

And luckily for you, there are dozens of Batman stories just like that, already released you can go read! It's the synopsis of literally every single romance arc Batman has ever had.

[Elmo]

"A Lonely Place of Living" - fitting title for the arc that will most likely end with Tim's death or removal from mainstream Batman comics (since he debuted in 'A Lonely Place of Dying') . Sad times, he's arguably the best Robin and best Batman supporting character, but I think everyone was just waiting for it to happen ever since Damian was introduced.

[Caivu]

"A Lonely Place of Living" - fitting title for the arc that will most likely end with Tim's death or removal from mainstream Batman comics (since he debuted in 'A Lonely Place of Dying') . Sad times, he's arguably the best Robin and best Batman supporting character, but I think everyone was just waiting for it to happen ever since Damian was introduced.

Yeah... I don't think that's what will happen at all.

[Elmo]

Yeah... I don't think that's what will happen at all.

What do you think will happen?

[Miles To Go]

Don't get me wrong. If she says NO, I don't think that's the end for them. Quite the contrary. I think King is gonna try to tell a love story about them. I think he will do that.

Yeah

Mary Jane turned Peter Parker down the first time in the core comics and turned down marriage proposals in the newspaper strip several times, and they wound up getting married in both continuities eventually [while the mainstream Peter and MJ eventually fell victim to OMD twenty years later, the newspaper Peter and MJ are still married to this day]

Lois Lane broke off her engagement to Clark a year or so before they got married too

[Alycat]

"A Lonely Place of Living" - fitting title for the arc that will most likely end with Tim's death or removal from mainstream Batman comics (since he debuted in 'A Lonely Place of Dying') . Sad times, he's arguably the best Robin and best Batman supporting character, but I think everyone was just waiting for it to happen ever since Damian was introduced.

Tim's not dying. If he was they would've just killed him to begin with.

[JBatmanFan05]

I think King is gonna try to tell a love story about them. I think he will do that.

I think we'll get this interesting exploration of Batman and love even without marriage necessarily at the end of all this. It will be groundbreaking enough if King just tells a definitive tale on why Batman won't find marriage in these non-end-of-career mid 30s days of his life. Some are exaggerating the lack of committed relationships Batman has had. He's had long enough ones in various runs.

[shadowsgirl]

"A Lonely Place of Living" - fitting title for the arc that will most likely end with Tim's death or removal from mainstream Batman comics (since he debuted in 'A Lonely Place of Dying') . Sad times, he's arguably the best Robin and best Batman supporting character, but I think everyone was just waiting for it to happen ever since Damian was introduced.

From a Tynion interview:

"How would you describe the situation Tim Drake’s in? It’s ingenious, because he’s effectively dead in the universe of the book, but we know he’s out there and coming back, which circumvents the typical anticlimactic superhero death-and-resurrection cycle.

The best way to describe it is having my cake and eating it too. We didn’t want to do the standard fake-out, okay the character’s dead and then three issues later reveal he’s alive. We wanted to show people right away that this isn’t something we did to shock readers, this is all part of a story. We wanted to make it clear that everything that’s happening with Tim is because we think he’s one of the most important characters in the DC Universe, not an expendable character that we’re going to toss on the fire to make all the characters cry. Now, at the same time, we get to use him to make all the characters cry.

One of the things that’s interesting about Tim being the one taken off the board is that he’s such a bright character. From what we’ve seen of Rebirth so far, it looks like it might be a referendum on dark, post-Watchmen superhero stories vs. a more optimistic ideal, of which Tim is kind of an avatar.

All I’d say is what Mr. Oz says to Tim Drake when Tim is pulled into the side world. All I can really do is point to the text at this point, and then say: This is all a bigger story. The fact that it is Tim, and Tim is central to all of this, that is relevant and important. You’ll be slowly discovering why over the next few months or years. Tim’s a character who I feel like in the New 52 got brought over to the Titans side of the universe, and was sort of taken away from Gotham. Being able to root him as a crucial Gotham figure before sending him off into maybe the biggest story Tim has ever been a part of in DC comics history, that’s something that is important to me and makes me happy that we were able to do."