Grant Morrison’s epic Batman era is over. The Batman, Incorporated #13 finale may have left you frustrated, freaked or extremely satisfied. No matter how you feel you can agree it was eventful and paves the way for darker stories ahead for the Dark Knight.
Why did the acclaimed writer end his run this way?
Before I continue I must give a…
SPOILER ALERT:
If you have not read BATMAN, INCORPORATED #13 yet stop reading this post now.
Seriously.
Here it comes.
If Morrison would kill Damian Wayne then no one is safe. The final showdown between Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul did end in death but it was Kathy Kane who took the kill shot.
Then in the final pages Ra’s al Ghul pledges vengeance against Bruce Wayne. With his grandson and daughter dead Ra’s vows to “raise an army grown in darkness.”
In the series’ final page Ra’s is shown commanding an army of Damian clones to release upon Batman. But why end the series on such a cliffhanger?
“Batman’s mission is really … almost a never-ending one and there’s a kind of terror to that I think that people may not necessarily want to see,” Morrison explained to The New York Post. “They might not want to understand that the Batman’s mission never ends. There’s a kind of hope in that Batman will ultimately win and I guess what the story is saying, really … is it’s taking a long-running franchise where this guy is going to be revamped forever and he will always be new, and he will always come back shiny and new, and bigger and faster. But for him there’s a kind of horror in that. That’s kind of where I was trying to get at: What if the Batman story never ends? What if you felt that for just a moment?”
The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul was one of my favorite Morrison Bat-stories. I would be thrilled to see how Batman writer Scott Snyder or Batman and Robin writer Peter Tomasi might use the immortal leader of the League of Assassins.
By Editor