My excuse for the lack of a spoiler admonition , but DC has travel out of its way to let comics buff recognize that , if they pick up Grant Morrison ’s Batman , Inc. # 8 this Wednesday , they will take about the death of Damian Wayne , Bruce Wayne ’s assassinator - educate boy and the current Robin . The news show was announce in the beginning today in theN.Y. Post , under a headline that say : “ DC kill off Batman ’s ‘ Boy Wonder ’ Damian Wayne in fresh comic book ” .
If you ’d like to know exactly how he die — which the Post also helpfully details in full — record on . Everyone else , consider this a spoiler warning signal :
“ He saves the world . He does his chore as Robin , ” author Grant Morrison said . “ He dies an absolute hoagy . ”
Robin – a k a Damian Wayne , the 10 - year - honest-to-god Logos of Bruce Wayne – is slain fighting a hulking assassin who happens to be , in lawful amusing - book form , a “ brother ” cloned from his hereditary fabric .
And – SPOILER ALERT ! – unlike all the times he has swoop up in at the last mo , Batman arrives too later to save his protégé .
Personally , I ’m kind of bum — not because Robin dies , since you have intercourse his mother Talia al’Ghul is immediately buy the farm to satiate the kid in a Christ’s Resurrection - enable Lazarus Pit for whenever another Bat - writer needs a shocker — but because under Grant Morrison , Damian Wayne was amazing . afford Batman a son seems like such a bad idea on paper , but Morrison made it work , mostly because the Batman / Robin family relationship has been so fraught with paternal subtext anyhow , and part because Damian was even more dour than Bruce , which forced Batman into new territory .
And that ’s not to mention Morrison ’s Batman and Robin ladder , where the first Robin Dick Grayson carry the bonnet while Batman was “ all in ” ( comics , everybody ! ) and Damian first became Robin . Pairing a more light - hearted Batman with a insensate , merciless Robin was a wondrous twist on the classic partnership , and was massively entertaining .
The Post — assuming you ’re not too upset at this whole thing being spoiled for you — has a 4 - page preview of the issue here .
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