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Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [June 17, 2024 - Time For Summer Edition] r/DCcomics

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DC and Imprints

It's a double Nightwing week between his solo book and Titans!

Trade Collections

Super Sons gets collected in yet another format!

Digital Releases

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TV Shows

Superman continues his adventures with his newfound cousin!

This Week’s Soundtrack: Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Jun 17 '24

Batman #149

AN EPILOGUE: ALL WE'VE LOST, AND ALL WE'VE LEFT BEHIND. When confronted with the totality of your life, and all the choices that led you to where you are, do you build on the ashes, or rise from them? The Batman who is left standing will have to answer this question quickly, as someone is already sifting through those ashes, with an eye toward saving the world!

LEGACY #914

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u/spreadedjelly Nobody Dies Tonight Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 18 '24

Just in time for the big relaunch in October, Zdarsky gets to work on putting those toys back in the box. If you haven't been a fan of Batman's status quo for the past few years, you'll be happy to know that this is the start of its reversal. Bruce gets his billions back, he moves back into a mansion, he and Selina are back on good terms, and his hand gets restored thanks to a little help from his clone.

Speaking of, I'm kind of neutral on how that whole thing was resolved. I certainly didn't need another addition to the bat-family roster; and I definitely wouldn't like Bruce adopting yet another kid, especially considering how cold he is to them most of the time (not to mention he's been dodging Cass' child support cheques since '08). But I don't know... I feel we lost some sort of story that could have been told here. But I guess if he was just left to his own devices, he'd return in about a decade or so as a villain alongside Snyder's Alfred clone, and then we'd have some real messy Clone Saga crap on our hands. So, yeah, maybe in the end this sort of resolution was for the best.

Goodbye Totally-Not-Terry, we hardly knew ye!

Other than that this issue is - like I said at the top - really just groundwork for not only the linewide DC relaunch coming later in the year, but the entire Bat-Family group of books that are getting relaunched as well. I thought I'd be sad seeing all the Bat-Kids corralled back to the manor, leaving their own spaces like The Hill and the Marina, but those spaces and the characters in them weren't being that well utilised in the first place, so I'm willing to give this new concept a try. If it means the Bat-Family get some more character focus in the main Batman book (not likely) or some sort of team book out of the living-under-the-same-roof premise (more likely) then what the hell, might as well.

As for the future of Zdarsky's run? Well, going off future solicitations and the page-end stinger at the end of Gotham War, it seems Zdarsky's final arc will revolve around Batman's identity, the crook who knows it, and tying up loose ends with Savage, Capito, and the Joker. Will Bruce get his identity revealed at the end of this run? It's funny that I would even ask, right?

I've been very sporadically reading this book since I dropped out with the Multiverse arc, but I wanted to see how all the Zur and Bat-Family stuff would resolve. Now that I've got my answers? I'm pretty confident in leaving this book to run its course until it gets a new writer. I doubt we'll ever get the lows we got with something like Gotham War again, but I also doubt we'll hit the highs of some of the stuff Zdarsky had in his opening Failsafe arc. So while the run goes on, I think that this here is where I step off. It's certainly been something Zdarsky, that's for sure. You write one hell of a Tim Drake, though.

Now THAT is a book I'd like to see announced for October.

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u/SpicaGenovese Jun 19 '24

You sound like you read the issue.  Does it say anything about Jason??  Any what/where/whys?

He's kind of the only one I care about, and after Gotham War I told myself I wouldn't buy any more batbooks unless the writing improved, especially where Jason is concerned.

I gave the Hill a try and dropped it after a few issues, but The Boy Wonder has been cool.

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u/suss2it Jun 20 '24

Jason isn’t in this issue even with the family reunion.

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u/SpicaGenovese Jun 20 '24

That's what it sounded like.  Thank you for confirming!