NS: New York Times Article Spoils Batman #50

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"The answers to the questions are found in letters the couple have written to each other before their wedding day. Mr. Wayne’s correspondence reveals an acceptance of Ms. Kyle, who in her time has been a jewel thief, a villain, an antihero and a mob boss. “You’re not someone who can be figured out. Or solved. And never will be,” he declares. He also writes that he can be “more than a boy whose parents are dead,” that he can be “the man who loves you. Who will always try to love you better.”

Ms. Kyle’s letter lays out the truth as she sees it: “You’re still a child, Bruce. A hurt child.” Their happiness, she speculates, would kill Batman, who rescues everyone and turns pain into hope. “How can I do that,” she writes. “To save the world, heroes make sacrifices.”

In order to keep countless innocents safe, she concludes that she cannot marry Mr. Wayne. “My sacrifice is my life. It’s you.”

In the final moments of their story, the bride and groom end up at different locations in the early morning hours. In a silent page, Ms. Kyle sits on a rooftop, contemplating. She discards her veil and leaps toward the street. At the Finger Tower skyscraper, after an hour of waiting for his bride, Mr. Wayne realizes she is not coming. He throws off his tie and takes a similar leap, but in the opposite direction. Theirs is a story that is forever to be continued."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/fashion/weddings/it-just-wasnt-meant-to-be-batman.html

Comments

[icon_uk]

Worthless? You'll pry the prettiest Dick Grayson has been in years (In Nightwing vs Hush) out of my cold dead hands!

And Selina and Damian's interactions in his special were lovely.

[zachbeacon]

Ok, maybe just "worthless except to the half of the readers that want to ogle Nightwing".

Having a bunch of one-shots that lead into something that doesn't happen reminds me of fandom's general annoyance that "Countdown to Final Crisis" didn't actually have much to do with Final Crisis and sometimes even contradicted it.

[shadowpsykie]

All of which means nothing now that they didn’t go through with it.

[kore]

Ooh, you don't say.