Poor Batman.
Not only are his parents dead, but now his son is dead, too.
As comic fans learned recently, Damian Wayne ? one of numerous youngsters to wear the costume of Robin, the Dark Knight?s crime-fighting sidekick ? has been killed off.
Writer Grant Morrison says he has no plans to bring the 10-year-old back to life, but it?s not like the writers who will work for DC in the future are bound by Morrison?s wishes.
In our world, death is an inevitable certainty. It?s unavoidable.
To superheroes, death has a more . . . elastic meaning. Rarely does a character stay dead.
Look at Marvel?s Captain America ? in 2007, his fellow Avengers were mourning Cap?s assassination. Yet today, the guy is fighting baddies like always. He didn?t lose a step after dying.
On the one hand, killing a major character opens up all kinds of interesting story-telling possibilities.
The Death of Captain Marvel was one of the first-ever graphic novels.
And when Jean Grey died back in the 1980s, the popular Uncanny X-Men title became a more poignant and deeper book.
On the other hand, a superhero death just serves to increase fan cynicism because rebirth is inevitable. Death rarely sticks.
For further reading: Spider-Man: Death of the Stacys, X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, Batman: A Death in the Family, The Death of Captain America.
Free Press columnist Dan Brown moderates London?s L.A. Mood graphic-novel book club
dan.brown@sunmedia.ca
Twitter.com/danatlfpress
Source: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/03/28/brown-no-resurrection-in-stars-for-batmans-robin
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