DC Comics Asks: What If Jason Todd Lives?

It ’s one ofthe most ill-famed storiesin DC ’s long account : the fistful of public phone - in ballot that decided that the Joker shouldtake a crowbarto Jason Todd ’s look and go out him a bloodied , bushed pulp . It ’s comic strip of course , so Jasoneventually got better ( ? ) , but fans and the publisher likewise have long been fascinated with what could ’ve been — and now the latter ’s really imagining it .

We ’ve seen over the years infits and scratch line , the potential for what could ’ve happened if that notorious telephone set - in vote storylinehad move Jason ’s mode , but now DC will imagine it outright in Death in the Family : Robin live !

A unexampled four - issue miniseries from J.M. DeMatteis and artist Rick Leonardi will plunk up instantly off from the original alternate ending to 1988’sBatman # 428 — an looping of which has been in DC ’s vault for decades , and then actually printed last year in a facsimile re - dismission of the classic subject — and reckon a brutalized , but alive Jason Todd begin to plot his retaliation against Joker for nearly killing him .

Image: Rick Leonardi/DC Comics

“ Continuing this classic , and controversial , story and following in the footsteps of Jim Starlin and Jim Aparo , two Creator I greatly look up to , has been both a challenge and a delight , ” DeMatteis said in a press discharge accompanying the announcement . “ This is a nifty opportunity to tell a account that ’s big on action at law , but also takes a very deep dive into the heads of our main character as we ponder what would have come about if Jason Todd had survived The Joker ’s brutal attack . And having a master like Rick Leonardi bringing it to life visually ? I could n’t ask for anything more . ”

The first military issue of Death in the Family : Robin subsist ! is localise to hit shelf July 10 .

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Image: Rick Leonardi/DC Comics