They. Killed. Batman.

Okie dokie so recently checked up on the what's going on in the dc comics world...specifically the batman area (hey, what else do ya do in summer?).....BE WARNED!  This is going to be a nerdy post! xP  Ok for starters I'm just going to say that Nightwing is my favorite dc character of ALL TIME!! Nightwing is the original robin....just grown up haha. 

Awesome?  I think so! :]

      Annyyway though this post is not about him... well not mainly, it's about Batman.  So apparently, DC comics decided to kill off batman.  Well Bruce Wayne - batman.... To give a little background on Bruce Wayne, when he was 8 he saw his parents shoot and murdered in front of him.  He vowed to try to rid Gotham City (his fictional hometown) of such crimes.  His number one poilcy was Never Kill anyone and Never bare firearms.  Yet, his dying act showed him picking up a gun and killing someone with it.   

       ok with that said...here's my point.  When DC comics killed off Bruce Wayne they destroyed a LOT of things.  Let's make a list! :]

WHY I DON'T LIKE DC COMICS:

1. They killed batman... dude...THEY KILLED BATMAN!  For years, Bruce Wayne has proven himself to be  THEE greatest escape artist in the world.  At the end of serveral issues, batman is at a near death state, yet he ALWAYS escapes.  That's just who Batman is.  He escapes death.  So to have Bruce Wayne killed by some lazer beam eye's from some evil super god (so no one has escaped this lazer beam thingy...so what? :P He's batman)....not cool.  

2. Bruce Wayne is the immortal batman.  When someone says batman, it's ALWAYS linked to Bruce Wayne.  Even people who don't know ANYTHING about comics know the simple fact, Bruce Wayne is Batman.  It's kinda like how everyone knows that Clark Kent is Superman.  It's just known facts ya know?  To change that is like....insane.  I don't like it. 

3. Bruce Wayne died breaking his most sacred rule.  This guy became Batman because he witnessed killing in one of he most horrifying ways ever.  He was grounded upon this rule his ENTIRE career.  These people made him go againest everything he stood for.  This makes Batman a hypocrite... The worst part about this is how the writer of issue of batman's death explained it.  and I quote:

"the root of the Batman mythos is the gun and the bullet that created Batman. So, Batman himself is finally standing there to complete that big mythical circle and to have the image of Batman up against the actual personification of evil and now he's got the gun and he's got the bullet. It seemed to me to work." - Grant Morrison

This guy apparently is saying that Bruce Wayne became who he is cause some bad guy had a gun and went "MWWHAHAHAHA" and made Wayne's life miserable.  So Morrison thinks it "works" to make batman's last act, one of revenge.  So batman points a gun at a symbol of evil and goes with his last breath mutters "mwhhahaha I have the gun this time" (not really but just follow me here).  This is a HORRIBLE ending.  I guess it's just cause as a kid I was taught that revenge gets you no where and it's not the right thing to do.  As the Bible teaches "turn the other cheek".  Their saying that batman's entire life career was centered around revenge... maybe in the beginning a bit, but he generally stands for justice and ironically mercy too - not revenge... haha at least in my mind he does.  No matter how evil the villian is, he never kills them, in this way he shows mercy.  However, he does make them face justice.  This is why i hate the end of batman. They made a mess of one of the greatest characters. 

4. Bruce Wayne's replacement is Dick Grayson.  Yah.  So first, DC destorys one of my favorite characters (Batman/Bruce Wayne).  Then they go after my favorite character.  awesome.  So Dick Grayson was the original robin.  For the longest time he was the comic contrast to the darker character, batman.  After a while, he eventually became Nightwing.  Personally, this is my favorite character cause he's witty yet serious enough at the right times he's round character compared to batman.  (BTW... DC comics also messed up his storyline...and made him look like a COMPLETE JERK!).  As skilled as Grayson might be, he's no batman.  The character differences just don't fit to me.  Grayson will always be better as robin then as batman.  He actually hated some of the ways that Bruce Wayne did things as batman.  I don't know...i really doesn't fit for me.  Plus, they put an end to the character Nightwing...which im SUPER bummed about.

5. The new robin is....interesting.  So the new robin is Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne's biological son.  He was created in a artifical womb and he shares Bruce Wayne's dna.  Yah.  anyway this kid is snarky, he talks-back and he's nothing like the other robin's (haha yes there were more than one...not going into details about that) were like.  Personally, I liked how robin was a lighter, happier character.  This kid...eww...

    Anyway, that's my little rant on the dc writers.  It's sad they create such good characters then they destroy them... :[  In my mind, these characters stand for a lot more then what the dc writers potray them as.  sigh... they've messed up a lot of my favorite characters.  Batman, Nightwing, Tim Drake ( the third kid to wear the Robin costume), Cassandra Cain (the second person to be called batgirl).  But there is one good dc writer that I really like... but maybe sometimes don't agree with.  Alan Moore.  "Superman: For The Man Who Has Everything".  Go check it out. ;]

btw...some of my facts might be a little sketchy?  haha idk