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

[beyondthefringe]

Fuck all of this.

Fuck DC and Tom King for wasting a year's worth of issues on a storyline that doesn't even have the guts to go through with its potential, and which ended up spinning its wheels just so it could happen in #50, and which necessitated, somehow, a bunch of one-shots ahead of time which were equally pointless.

Fuck everyone involved for then proceeding to SPOIL the goddamned resolution days before it came out, just to make sure that not only was this a waste of time, but we don't even get the enjoyment of being at all surprised or satisfied.

As a reader, I feel rather letdown by everything involving this entire mess.