A Horrible Business Model For Comics
How do you gain popularity for a successful movie franchise? Why, just kill off the main character horribly in the series the movie was based on!

In case you haven't heard, by the way, DC killed off Batman. Not just sort of killed off either, but killed off in such a way that involves the term "charred corpse". I'd be more pissed if it weren't for the fact that I know it all to be a huge marketing ploy. Wherever would DC have gotten the idea to kill off a cannon character that is at the core of fandom just to bring them back at a later date to make a few quick bucks?

Gee, I wonder.

That's not really what ticks me off however. What gets me is how the character died. It wasn't enough to kill him, but that they basically shoved a spiked dildo into his ass as they did. Sure, he may come back, but he'll still be Batman-The-Guy-Who-Had-That-Spiked-Dildo-In-His-Ass-That-One-Time. The dildo in this case was a GUN THAT HE SHOT A GUY WITH.

Have the writers ever even fucking READ Batman, or are they all just kinda going off the Schumacher films? This is somehow worse than nipple-suits because they've set precedent. Batman doesn't use guns... oh except for that one time he killed a guy.

The retard in sheep's clothing that wrote this genius plot arc, gave the following as his reason:

"Morrison notes that Batman's use of the gun is symbolic as '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.' "

So... Batman has come full circle... to be the guy who shot down his parents in the alley?

THAT'S IT! I HAVE FUCKING HAD IT!

You want comics to be edgy, gritty, and doing challenging new things with moral fortitude? Make your OWN fucking books like Moore did! Complexity does not mean contrary! Captain America got killed off, but at least he didn't mow down a truck full of infants when he fuckin' did! Not all heros need to become flawed people at their core! THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED SUPERHEROES! THEY SAVE PEOPLE FROM ALIENS AND BURNING BUILDINGS, YOU WATERY SHITS OF HACKS!

If Nolan ends up not doing the third Batman movie, I am blaming these people beyond all evidence to the contrary. Blaming them with forks in their EYES.

That said, I am aware that I have just railed at the death of a fictional character like some kind of nerd-fanboy of epic proportions. But let's be honest, some shit you just don't do to good fiction. It's like "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" except the androids turn out to be midgets in exo suits.