Didn't This Batman Twist Make News Months Ago?

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Fortunately, my DC/Batman universe has an ironclad endocrine system. Everything that does not work within the Default Batman Universe (mine) is forcibly expelled into the territory of Inconsequential Alternate Universes.

Ain’t mythos grand?

(Also, let’s see how long this irrevocable plot twist lasts, hmm?)

Comments

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Eh, he's not even dead, he's just Omega Sanctioned. Mister Miracle managed to escape; he can probably help Batman get out.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ah, so he's only mostly dead, huh?

That's actually my default assumption for most deaths in the DC and Marvel Uberverses, so I fail to be amazed.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

The Omega Sanction was established in Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle as a sort of trap, an infinitely nested series of miserable alternate lives. This was sort of a retcon, since before it was just assumed that Darkseid's Omega Beams just fried your ass.

At any rate, Batman was shown alive in the last issue of Final Crisis. Well, it's a shirtless guy in a cave, and his face isn't shown, but he puts a yellow utility belt down and he casts a Batman-shaped shadow, so it's pretty clear—it's actually the most obvious bit in the whole damn issue (Grant Morrison has a bad habit of packing too much stuff into the end of a big storyline, so narrative cohesion goes out the window and it ends up reading like a highlight reel of what happened).