Major DC Character DIES!

I had to just throw this out there simply for the little bit at the end (sorry 'bout the link - just copy and past the address):

"But don’t worry. This summer they have a book called Black Lantern. You know Green Lanterns? Based off will power? Now there is a spectrum of rings and powers.

- Yellow Lantern Corp is Fear based.
- Purple is love based.
- Blue is hope based.
- Red Lanterns are rage based.
- And Black Lanterns will be “The dead come to life.” (You get the idea? So maybe Bats isn’t dead.)"

It's bad enough they're killing off the Bat (yeah, I know they've been talking about this for awhile now), but to have him possibly come back a. undead and b. with lantern-like powers just don't seem... right. Bat's is cool because he's just human. To make him a zombie and give him a power ring seems like a cop-out to me...

Let's not forget he has that bastard kid who's been MORE than vocal about his claims on the cowl / mantle...

The 'heir' doesn't HAVE to do a better job (especially if they plan on bringing Bruce back) - just look at the basketcase Azreal became during the 'Knightfall' aftermath.

Welcome to the confusion... Maybe... maybe it's all just a dream! Yeah... that's the ticket! Maybe Bruce will wake up a little kid and his parents aren't really dead.... maybe the planet Krypton really didn't blow up and El and company are living happily ever after... maybe clan Grayson didin't bite the big one... maybe Darkseid realized that he was just having a REALLY bad day... maybe it will be sunshine, pretty flowers and ponies in the DC Universe from now until eternity... MAYBE I can bend over and shoot fireballs and laserbeams out my @ss!!!! This is BS - I'm going back to the indies until BOTH DC AND Marvel pull their heads out of their 'fourth point of contact'!

Touriquet, DC isn't the ONLY guilty party in this non-sensical BS. Marvel has been JUST as guilty (uh, can you say 'Dark Phoenix/Jean Grey' or 'Electra' - just to name a few?)! Oh yeah their 'resurrections' made a TON of sense, now didn't they (can you say "(MAJOR) suspension of disbelief" - I know you can...)? This is just another BS ploy that a corporation is pulling to get more reader dollars! DC did it before with 'Death of Superman' and his subsequent 'return'. Marvel's doing it now with Captain America (don't be naive, you all KNOW Steve Rogers is coming back - it's only a matter of time!). I'm off to the magical land of the indie comic, where at least the artists/writers have a smidge of respect for their readers - who's with me?

THEHAWK... but to possibly bring him back as some undead superhero in the 'Black' Lantern Corp seems like a cop-out to me. The Bat's 'charm' is that he's human (no power ring) and only has his intelligence and skills to rely on!

Bruce Wayne will come back as the first of the New Gods in the 5th world. Just an FYI.

You're right, he's not. HOWEVER, over the years he has shown many qualities that out perform some of the actual "gods" in the DCU. I do believe the original idea was to kill ALL THE MAJOR PLAYERS; i.e. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, GL etc so they can be resurrected as the new New Gods in the 5th world. But, they scrapped that idea since all except Bruce are pretty much god-like already. Wther that's the actual case now, is up for grabs. Also, if Bruce does come back in the Black Corps as an undead ring-bearer, he will be the ONLY person in the entire DCU to officially bear 3 seperate power rings. He had a Green one, He had a Yellow one (very shortly as he overcame it's hold) then he may have a Black one? I love the new Corps and colors etc. But, I think Bruce has done enough to not garner being a rainbow of rings. Transcend the mortal to goodhood where he belongs. I actually dig that.

Also, on another note, I have heard rumors about Bruces PARENTS coming back in the "Blackest Night" saga this summer as members of the Black Lantern Corps. Now, how F'ed up will that be for Bruce if he becomes an actual god-entity? Anyways, this is all just speculation, so we will have to see I guess.

Hawk, riddle me this - if he isn't dead and has 'travelled back in time' as you suggest, then why do they show the Big Blue Schoolboy CARRYING the Bat's lifeless body in the last panel (isn't he going to need it in the Stone Age, or wherever he ends up?)? Any way you slice it, (death or time travel), the is TOTAL BS!!!!!

Logan, according to Grant Morrison in an interview, the Bats not dead. Alright the Omega Sanction is what Darkseid used. What the Sanction does is it sends the victims spirit and soul troughout time. A the end of Final Crisis 7 it shows Bats putting his utility belt on the dying Anthros, The First Man, in the Stone Age. It took me 3 readings to realize what happened. He is ;ost in time, and the body, well that was probably so we would think he is dead. And it is BS and a cop out this way he can come back.

Dude I agree it was an awesome arc for him until that point. Grant Morrison was awesome in writing RIP. The two follow up issues that showed what happened in between RIP and his kidnapping in Final Crisis. I like how the two issues showed a recap of the carreer from Alfred's POV. And Bruce promising Alred that the whole conspiricy wouldn't matter after this one last case. It switches over from there to Bruce's POV. Bruce recaps Finalcrisis up to his breakout, by doing the impossible yet again, using his mind as a weapon to kill the army that darkseid was trying to feed his memories to. Then breaking free and grabbing the gun and Radon Bullet to kill darkseid with, and thus coming full circle.

Wikipedia has a new article sinc yesterday that explains it pretty well, if you still don't get me.

Trust me you aren't. I hate to say it but I liked him dying better. It was more true to the character, than displacing him in time.

Agreed, but then some fans bitch about their hero being dead. so tey bring them back.......somehow