DCnU Bat-Family

Eh, I just don't see it that way. Seems more like bad luck of the draw than incompetence. If you told me that Barbara kept a key under the Welcome mat while living in crime ridden Gotham City, then I would Agree with you.

And poor Alfred is just doing his job. Butlers are supposed to answer doors and pick up packages. If anything he should be suing Bruce Wayne for not having a better security system, guards, attack dogs, cameras etc.

Failing to look out the keyhole when you answer the door on an otherwise uneventful day shows a lack of common sense?   Talk about holding fictional characters to higher standards than normal people lol.  Who hasn't opened the door without looking first because they were distracted, or were expecting someone, or simply don't live in fear?

Read Batman 13.

Nightwing, Red Robin, and Batgirl all calling Batman about Joker being back made me think of that scene in It.

The scene in the police department with Gordon was truly creepy. The "Tease" back-up with Harley was even creepier. Loved it.

Im pretty sure this isnt a crossover in the style of messiah complex where each book tells the next chapter. I'm assuming like BC said, this will be more like night of the owls where snyders book contains the actual story and batgirl, red hood, nightwing etc will showcase those characters interactions with joker.

Originally posted by Lorr You have a point there. I can't think of many comic stories I loved him in besides killing joke. My love of him comes from tv, movies, and cartoons. I am Kinda worried about this being a crossover though and if his portrayal by the other bat book writers will mesh with snyders take here.

Very true...but the bonus here is that with the way Snyder works, unless you really really care about or already follow those books, you can avoid them and get recaps here.

I don't even read Red Hood but there's no way I can miss a Joker and Jason Todd confrontation...and Batgirl and the Joker?? DUDE!!!!

You know what, I've never really...I guess..."respected" the comic book Joker. I mean I read Killing Joke and TDKR and loved it. But its just something here that really makes me afraid of this gun.

Originally posted by Lorr Death of the Family part one...whoa....that was kinda intense.....scary even.

Dude...it was incredible...like damn...

So I'd say its safe to say that Death of the Family is the biggest story of the rest of 2012...Snyder is probably the best writer at DC right now (tied with Waid at DC as the best in the big two) to me and I think with that and RottWorld he's going to own the rest of the year.

They should have gone with Lobdell's original plan and have Drake not ever be Robin... it'd have made more sense with his #0 issue to have him idolize Batman and figure out Batman's schtick and then try to emulate it... totally unconnected to Batman at all. Then there would be space for Dick, Jason, and Damian in the timeframe given.

I'm convinced that DC has decided that DiDio's baiting of fans about Stephanie Brown and Wally West and other items looked really fun so now on a massive scale they are baiting certain fans and waiting to see if their heads explode from so much fan rage at the continuity clusterf**k. Clearly they are demented people.

What's funny to me is that they started off with "Batman was perfect the way it was and very few changes will be made." Fast forward a year and suddenly everything about just about every Robin is different and the years added in make little sense at all for things. It's like they felt that Batman and company were left out of the radical changes so they just decided to change everything they could lol.

Dick gets the Tim "figuring out Batman through reading him" style of thing. Jason is the Robin apparently created by and destroyed by Joker who now seems to have always known who Batman is. Tim Drake is not Tim Drake, Drake is just his witness protection name and he was always Red Robin so as not to be taking Jason's Robin name. Guess in the next year we'll figure out how all this works anymore.

I'm beyond really caring about how off the continuity is now. It's going to keep being off and keep being messed with so no need to be pissed about it really I would say. It's just head shakingly amusing to see that DC has apparently just decided that keeping any sort of semblance of continuity in books is not important any longer. Just tell the story you want other books be damned. (See: Barbara Gordon as Batgirl in Birds of Prey one-year before NU-52's start when she was just becoming Batgirl again at the start of Nu-52.)

Anybody reading Batman: Odyssey? http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/08/20/batman-odyssey-neal-adams-review/ How does this expanding hollow Earth tie into Skytaris where Warlord lives?