Comments on: The Bat’s Out of the Bag

By: Kurt Fenreer

Kurt Fenreer — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:43:10 +0000

I thought it was going to be Bucky. :-(

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:36:16 +0000

Thanks, um, duckface.

Btw, leafed though the first issue of Oracle this weekend. Now I don’t know, but I don’t think so either – Really? Are people suffering from paralysis don’t look so, shall we say, fit from the waist down?

By: duckface

duckface — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:34:49 +0000

^ What Dave said.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:02:11 +0000

I’m another one of those folk who feel anyone other than Dick wearing the Batman costume would be a mistake, so I read this tonight and said “Whew.”

That said, Judd Winnick is writing the book – and I’m not going to buy it. I decided that after reading the June solicitations right here on Major Spoilers that I wasn’t going to buy ANY of the Bat-books after Cowl, and I’m only buying that because I’m a chump.

The addition of Damien, I think, has been nothing but a bad idea. Dumb when Morrison did it. And it’s not going to get better as DC adds 127 different writers to the mix. That many cooks in the kitchen will mean at least 50 or so different characterizations of the bad idea.

And they’re going to make Barbara Gordon walk again. How Alan Moore doesn’t enter DC with guns blazing is beyond me.

By: Ok

Ok — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:52:34 +0000

Maybe he just meant that the cape will envelope BATMAN’s dick. And not that Batman with BE Dick.

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:22:53 +0000

Unless there is a change in color scheme, that is not a drastic redesign. Like everyone else, the folks over at Project Rooftop ( a site dedicated to costume design, not the comic books per se) have correctly assumed who the new Batman is for months. They’ve held a “Batman 2.0″ redesign contest, specifically requiring the artists to design a costume for . They just posted the winners and various runners-up, and some of them are freakin’ awesome.

The artists came with different perspectives, and every single one of the top 10 redesigns is worthy of praise for some element. Frankly, I prefer 3-4 of them over what the new Batman will actually be wearing in the comics.

The site is at http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/ (I hope Major Spoilers doesn’t mind me mentioning it.)

By: Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:40:19 +0000

Anybody who has the variant cover for Battle For The Cowl #1 already knew.

By: Jovita

Jovita — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:39:43 +0000

What Mike Keller said. Thanks a lot @ssholes.

By: Ricco

Ricco — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:25:36 +0000

We know Robin = Damien, Batman = Dick, Red Robin = Tim, so what happens to Jason Todd?

By: CMonocle

CMonocle — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:02:07 +0000

I don’t think he needs to stop blogging… He just needs to stop posting work before the story is told. Just hold on to the sketches till the book is published. Easy.

By: ~wyntermute~

~wyntermute~ — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:55:25 +0000

I agree with the people who say that it is his responsibility for making a mistake. Now, one way to prevent said mistake from recurring is to disengage in the actions which lead to the mistake. In other words, it is “better safe than sorry” to withdraw oneself from the blogosphere, especially when you work in an industry where “secrets” can be accidentally disclosed or even “changed” so that what you thought was fine for posting yesterday is not anymore due to a managerial decision you weren’t even appraised of. Given all this, I don’t think it is an overreaction to burn his blog-bridge. Mr. Daniel wants to make sure he doesn’t screw up again, and, while it is a bit severe, he has taken steps to be more careful.

By: Mike Keller

Mike Keller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:09:07 +0000

My compliments to you Stephen for holding it. Too often people in the business (or the passion) of presenting news come across a story which, by presenting it, causes more harm than good. They hide behind the phrase “people have a ‘right-to-know’”, ignoring the harm they might cause. Sadly another creative voice is now silent.

By: CMonocle

CMonocle — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:48:51 +0000

Agreed. This is the internet and this mistake has been made by many. If you put something up, it is your fault.

By: Josh P.

Josh P. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:37:26 +0000

I think Daniel is overreacting. Seriously, it’s his own fault for posting the “wrong” image. Realistically, don’t post preliminary designs of a potentially spoilerific nature until after the story concludes.

By: Ricco

Ricco — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:25:45 +0000

I thought it was common knowledge that he was gonna be the next Batman.