Can you smell the fuming? I can. And it smells delicious.

Interview with Tomasi about Robin Rises

Apparently Batman has to butt heads with both the Justice League and Apokolips. I know I shouldn't be laughing, but I am. I really am.

Another cover that looks more like Earth-2's Thomas Wayne than regular Batman:

They're probably just going to bait-and-switch Damian's resurrection, buuuuuuut I can hope.

@saren: Fuming that Damian's (presumably) coming back? Or that the cover implies that no force on Earth can stop Batman from reclaiming his son?

Hopefully Batman can have more feats like this due to the stipulations:

Earth 2 Batman is going to die soon anyways.

Pretty cool cover (but please batfans don't try and add this to his feats) "Remember that time he pulled Not only Shazam but WW and Aquaman?" lol

I think it will be interesting to see how batman deals with huge threats like the league and Darkseid. Darkseid always seemed to have some kind of respect for batman and I always found that interesting to see. It'll be funny if Tomasi has batman take both the league and darkseid out but I hope it doesn't get to that point.

I also hope that Damian Wayne isn't resurrected. He was a brat and a killer and was always meant to die, and I hate the idea of batman actually having a real son (besides terry McGinnis). I would much prefer to see Carrie Kelley take the role and become the first girl robin in new 52. Lastly, Talia definitely needs to ressurected at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if Ra's already did that to her and then destroyed Damian's body in favor of a clone that will be loyal to Ra's. This arc sounds exciting.

@saren: Maybe Earth 2 Batman will make an appearance? I don't know. The forces of Apokolips after all, are attacking Earth 2.

What's a chaos shard? I'm guessing that crystal from Paks Batman/Superman?

Heh, I thought OP meant Batman's wacky anatomy with this topic :D

There's Kelley Jones vibe in it with insane lump of muscles and huge thighs. Foreshortening isn't that easy either, as we see.

And since when did Sgt Slaughter take up the Batman mantle? USA USA USA

Darkseid as Batman?

So are you basically telling me that Batman is going to kick all of the JL's candy asses...again? Take my money now!

That cover looks great but I think that means Batman will try to resurrect Damian but the league will make him see that its not the right decision and Damian will remain dead.

Expanding on this. Maybe Damian is resurrected and then travels to Earth-2. That would allow for coexisting Robins.

I can already feel the jimmies being rustled.

I can almost smell the PIS.

They should just stop beating around the bush and give Batman super powers and make him more powerful than any other character. Then we can have scenes of him taking his gloves off and punching Shazam, Superman, he can singlehandedly take down Darkseid, etc. I dont know who they are trying to fool at this point.

Oh boy yet another event, (because its not like there was a nearly year long event or anything) with Batman again.

I cant hold my excitement.

I was with you until you said Carrie Kelley as Robin. It would make no sense at all for Batman to jeopardize another teenage sidekick on his war on crime. im already pissed that Harper Row is following him around(which happen in the future issues at some point in time), Kelly has shown no feats of H2H skills at all, so that mean's he'll have to quick train a robin who shown no aspiration to fight crime. Now if Carrie was to be another Oracle type of character i can get behind that.

I kind of want Batman to beat the crap out of Shazam and Aquaman at the same time. Just for the reactions.

@saren: I don't get your snarky OP. Wit is usually meant to be easily understood. Why so salty?