[FlakBait]

PHILADELPHIA — Batman’s alter ego, Bruce Wayne, is going public about his role behind the Dark Knight.

After a lifetime spent wearing the cowl – and a scowl that’s made him the scourge of Gotham’s madmen – the fictional billionaire is taking full responsibility for keeping the caped crusader financed to fight crime.

The admission is unveiled Wednesday in the final pages of “Batman and Robin” No. 16 that marks the last issue in a run by Scottish writer Grant Morrison.

The acknowledgment in the final pages comes as Wayne holds a news conference where he asks those gathered: “Some of you may have wondered … how does a man like Batman afford to constantly update his crime-fighting technology? Where does his money come from?

“Well, the answer is me.”

The confession, Morrison said, is part of a detailed effort that puts into motion a plan for Batman Incorporated, a global network of Batmen from China to Argentina to fight crime worldwide.

Morrison told The Associated Press that the decision was made to protect Wayne’s secret identity by deflecting attention away from speculation it was he who wore the cape.

“We’ve sidetracked the media that he has actually been financing Batman all these years,” Morrison explained of the long arc he’s written that has seen the Dark Knight plunge through time and space and have his mantle taken up by former Robin Dick Grayson. “He is the man behind the Batman, but he is not Batman.”

In doing so, Wayne is free to take his crime fighting international by building what Morrison calls a “global, international army of Batmen. Batman in China, Batman in Japan, Batman in Russia. Expanding the Batman brand to areas where he really hasn’t been before.”

Those tales will unfold in full in the first issue of “Batman Incorporated,” due out Nov. 17.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39987755/ns/today-entertainment/

global international army of batmen??
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[fasola]

Each time I wonder why I have stopped reading mainstream comics, this type of news come out, and the answer is obvious.

No, on a side note, if batman is going global, wich is it going to be, a subsidiary of wayne enterprises, a “company” by itself, or what? And if so, will it go public in the market?
We all know what it means to go public in the market today. You will end up eventually being bought by Disney.

[BlackKusanagi]

Global Bats? Oshit.

[Ashlee]

well they never read Kingdom come.
If that true then he and everyone around him will be a target.
to stop “batman”
Bad move

[Danny]

And thus Bruce Wayne follows the American Way of Business… by outsourcing the goddamn Batman to foreign countries where he will build an empire based around two things

Ass Kicking

and merchandising

[musclelover2002]

As a fan, this has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I am not surprised that it came from GM though. To me he is hit or big miss. This is the later. As long as I am using superlatives boboy, you have the greatest comment I have heard on this subject, lol.

[Holiday]

Good Lord, is there nothing from Marvel they haven’t copied yet?

Granted, it does make more sense for Bruce Wayne to have a private army for his crusade, instead of doing it all by himself. But that’s already past that point of rationale. :unsure:

[Paul Schilling]

Uncle Paulie again, up on his soapbox:

Are you people THAT ignorant!!! This happened back in the 50’s in the pages of Batman. Knight and Squire aren’t new kids on the block, neither was the Gaucho (a south american “batman”). Bruce is just incorporating them now. I for one haven’t read nor collected a Batman or Detective since Infantino in the sixties. (let me retract that, I’ve collected Legend of the Dark Knight, several mini-series and elseworlds.) You youngsters today give up to easy on your comics. I wonder how many COLLECTOR’s we have left over INVESTOR’s nowaday.

[iromulus9]

I’m out of the loop, and this will most likely prove that. . . .but,

Isn’t Bruce Wayne dead in the mainstream comics and Dick took over?

If that is true, then this is some alternate timestream comic?

sigh

[fasola]

He is not dead. He got hit by Darkseid’s Omega beams, and got sent into the timestream like marty mcfly, and ended up banging his mother….

No, seriously (if that is possible) he did get sent back in time, and has been bouncing through time and now he is finally back, if that even makes sense inside a comic book.

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