New Batman?

[theNighteye]

How many of you would want someone else to be Batman other that Bruce Wayne? and if you didn't mind who would you pick as his successor?

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[Jack-In-The-Box]

Bruce Wayne is way more interesting than Batman, imo. So I have no interest in seeing anybody else in the BatSuit.

[Spiffy]

Hmm. Have to think on this. Because I've never heard this question... in the past 24 hours or so that is. :rolleyes:

[Chiroptera]

If anyone else actually takes up the mantle for longer than 3 issues I'd stop reading Batman. I did when Bane broke his back, and I have no qualms with doing it again.
Bruce Wayne is the only man who's ever made Batman interesting to me. The personality behind the Batman is far more important than the mask and the costume, and I don't have any interest in seeing someone else put on that cape and cowl.

[the-wolf]

The thing with these posts is that they're almost always one and the same. Bruce Wayne is the best Batman because he created Batman. Just like Peter Parker is the best Spider-man because he "IS" Spider-man. You can't just seperate them. It may be an alter-ego but it's still the same person and it's that person who made the character great in the first place.

That out of the way....a bio-genetically enhanced Alfred:eek: :cool: :wink: .

[Bazooka Jones]

A robot with a digital copy of Bruce Wayne's mind... but because of a computer error, it also got the mind of a foxy black schoolteacher teaching at a posh white prep school. It would really open the series up to discussions of race and gender, territory previously left largely unexplored. Also, the robot should have machine guns instead of hands and be able to fly.

[lepeos]

Imagine GM made himself Batman

[Lew Moxon]

The only way I read about someone else as Batman, would be if it was somekind of elseworld "generations" kind of story: and even then I would want Bruce to fight on until he was basically crippled, and then basically become the lead General in the war on crime for whoever his successors were. Until he dies. The thing is though, eventually Bruce Wayne, in story of course DC would never kill Bruce Wayne off, will die, it's a matter of when: so Bruce ought to have a successor of sorts planned for that eventuallity:In fact isn't that the whole point of Robin? So Grayson or Drake: I'd prefer Drake as I like the charector better.

[banana91]

If anyone else actually takes up the mantle for longer than 3 issues I'd stop reading Batman. I did when Bane broke his back, and I have no qualms with doing it again.
Bruce Wayne is the only man who's ever made Batman interesting to me. The personality behind the Batman is far more important than the mask and the costume, and I don't have any interest in seeing someone else put on that cape and cowl.

didnt like batman beyond?

[siberia77]

A robot with a digital copy of Bruce Wayne's mind... but because of a computer error, it also got the mind of a foxy black schoolteacher teaching at a posh white prep school. It would really open the series up to discussions of race and gender, territory previously left largely unexplored. Also, the robot should have machine guns instead of hands and be able to fly.

WOW this guy should be in charge of DC comics, lets start a major leafletting campaign

[Kelman]

I'd prefer to see Bruce Wayne as Batman. I don't know what the end result will be of the entertaining "Batman R.I.P." storyline, but I don't want to see DC looking at the death of Captain America as a blueprint. Cap's an iconic character, but he doesn't have the status that Batman has. If Dick Grayson or Jason Todd take up the cowl, it had better be temporary or I'll be finished with monthly Batman comics. Having said that, I am eager to read the future issues written by Neil Gaiman and Denny O'Neil.

[nepenthes]

why do people keep talking about Captain America when RIP comes up. You really assume that DC will be taking notes from Marvel just beause it's on the subject of death? This is comics, charaters die routinly. In DC you've had major stories like this with Superman, Green Lantern and oh yeah Knightfall

[Augusto]

Terry McGinnis

[lepeos]

I'd definitely like to see Terry become Batman, not now though, it'd be crap to just introduce him, and have him become Batman.

On that note though, the 'Batman Beyond Bruce' is the only version of 'Old Batman' I like. I don't like the idea of him just stopping usually. I think the best way to go for Batman would be in a blaze of glory

[Wind-Breaker]

Imagine GM made himself Batman

Well according to Warren Ellis' description of Grant, he would be getting stoned in the batcave, coming up with out of this world solutions for crime :evilsmile: .

[Chiroptera]

didnt like batman beyond?

Not even remotely.
I tried to like it, but the villains were boring, McGennis reminded me to much of a whiny angst teen hero instead of a worth Bat-successor and the whole future gotham thing really turned me off. I'd have been more interested in a show about Grayson or Drake taking the mask.

The one thing I did like was seeing how Bruce was blatantly still Batman even after he'd dropped the mantle, and my favorite scene from the whole story was him explaining how he figured out the voice in his head was someone else's projection because it called him Bruce.
"That's not what I call myself in my mind." was one of my favorite Batman lines in the entire DCAU.

[kalika]

Bruce is Batman and that's that. I don't like the idea of anybody permanently taking up the role. I completely agree with those that state its not just the Batman character that is interesting but the Bruce/Batman dynamic that attracted me all those years ago.

Now if somebody has to fill in for a bit while Bruce checks into rehab to work off the meth or whatever he's on, I'm okay with Grayson handling things for a bit. Tim's too young still, and clearly Robin. Rick is his own man and just freakin' badass. :biggrin: