So I came across this USA Today article about Grant Morrison's Batman R.I.P. storyline:
"The crimefighter is so shaken by a secret from his past that a new Batman must be found.
What makes this "death" go beyond the usual circulation booster is the talent involved. Helping to bury Batman will be best-selling novelist Neil Gaiman, who created the goth-cult Sandman comic 20 years ago. Gaiman is writing a two-issue tribute to the character, starting with Batman #686 and tentatively titled Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, due in February."
What makes this "death" go beyond the usual circulation booster is the talent involved. Helping to bury Batman will be best-selling novelist Neil Gaiman, who created the goth-cult Sandman comic 20 years ago. Gaiman is writing a two-issue tribute to the character, starting with Batman #686 and tentatively titled Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, due in February."
The article goes on to explain what Gaiman wants to do to sum up years of various interpretations of Batman. I'm disappointed that I haven't read any of the R.I.P. series. Jim, is it worth it?
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The Paul Deni/Hush storyline wasn't very good. The Grant Morrison run was fantastic, and I view that as the real RIP story. But the secret to this is to know or seek out the later fifties Batman stories to fully understand that Morrison is bringing all Batman stories, even the silliest, into continuity.
As for Gaiman, he's trying to do for Batman what Moore did for Superman (Whatever happened to the man of Tomorrow) before the John Byrne revamp. Big shoes to fill, even for Gaiman.
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