Batman killed by his Own Dad!?

WTF?! It wasn’t Alfred after all? Here’s the buzz roundup on Grant Morrison’s Batman RIP conclusion in the DC comic book series — the death of Batman aka Bruce Wayne at the hands of his own father?!

The world’s most famous comic book hero has breathed his last Bat breath.
Bruce Wayne – who by night is Batman – gets murdered by a man claiming to be the father he thought was dead.

In a highly controversial new storyline Bruce, who first appeared in 1939, is killed by Simon Hurt – the leader of the shady Black Glove organisation.

Simon claims he is really Dr Thomas Wayne, saying he faked his own passing when Bruce was a child.

The superhero dies when he tries to stop his foe escaping by helicopter in the new comic Batman R.I.P.

Writer Grant Morrison said: “This is so much better than death. People have killed characters in the past but to me, that kind of ends the story!

“I like to keep the story twisting and turning. So what I am doing is a fate worse than death. Things that no one would expect to happen to these guys at all.

“This is the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman.”

- from Sun

“It’s great that it stirs up such passion,” he said.
“Nobody loves Bruce Wayne more than me, and I hope everybody understands that this is part of the great ongoing adventure of Batman.”
The caped crusader first appeared in comics in 1939, and has spawned a 1960s TV series and a host of films.
The “death” of Wayne’s father – shot alongside his mother by a robber when he was a boy – was the catalyst for the young industrialist to become the vigilante crime fighter Batman.

- from BBC

That’s the official word, Bruce Wayne is to be killed off in the latest Batman comic – Batman RIP, by Simon Hurt who claims to be Wayne’s father Dr Thomas Wayne.

Thomas Wayne was shot alongside Bruce’s mother by a robber when he was a you boy, this was the catalyst that drove Bruce Wayne to become the vigilante crime fighter Batman.

In the final scene of the comic, Hurt is trying to escape by helicopter after shooting Batman, but the wounded superhero throws himself at the helicopter causing it to crash.

This would seem to signal the end of Batman, but the story ends without showing Wayne’s body.

Scottish writer Grant Morrison said earlier this week: “This is the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman. But, like I say, it’s so much better than death.

“People have killed characters in the past but to me, that kind of ends the story. I like to keep the story twisting and turning.

“So what I am doing is a fate worse than death. Things that no-one would expect to happen to these guys at all.”

Morrison would not reveal who would be taking up the role of the new Batman but characters at the forefront are Tim Drake, who has been Robin since 1991, and Dick Grayson – the original Boy Wonder – who now protects Gotham City as Nightwing. – from Dish