• you guys are dumb everyone knows batrex wins

• i say if you're gonna post an article on a seemingly accredited site it would be good to SPELL WORDS CORRECTLY!!! come on! it's STEEL not STEAL(as in "to pilfer"). being a frequent visitor to this site i'm a 100% sure it's NOT a play on words. tsk tsk. reign of the batmen is about 13 years too late if you ask me...:P

• ZeroCorpse: Deadpool's Funeral for a Freak storyline had many people vying to be the new Deadpool. Granted, They turned out to be physical manifestations of his personality, but it was the same idea.

• THE LAST ONE IS NOT JASON TODD. IT IS THE THIRD "BATMAN" THAT TRIED TO KILL HIM IN THE ARC PRIOR TO BATMAN R.I.P. LOSER

• the real question is _'what does batman do when he's not batman'

• As long as we're considering all forms of lameness here, maybe *none* of these are Dick Grayson? Maybe the dude in front of Alfred is the Tim Drake from the Future Titans, come back in time to take his "rightful" place? And Nightwing has to go around and clean up the whole mess before taking the cowl himself? Anyway, I'll tune back in when Dick and Tim are rocking the costumes together and kickin' Le Bossu's tail...

• the one under the crate is cassandra

• that's hush all the way to the left with damien. the white cloth tied around him is a big hint. as to why it looks like damien has him on a leash, i would say it might be something like using him to fuck with some people.

• What about Terry ... batman beyond..

• If the cyborg batman isn't Jason Todd it'll be some batshit crazy(pun intended) version of Bruce Wayne's personality downloaded into a cyborg body. Seems a pointless storyline when if they don't bring back Brucie, it'll only boil down to Nightwing taking up the cowl for half a year till some other stupid thing happens and Bruce comes back. Meh. On the plus side, cyborg batman looks kind of cool.

• This is why I hate DC. Am I the only one who things this is just totally batshit crazy and too ridiculous to be good? The last good thing that happened in the Batman Universe that I remember reading was the War games stuff. That was cool. Captain America dies and it's national news. Batman dies and no one gives a fuck. Why not? Because they do stupid shit like this.

• From reading what others have said, it seems like hush will be the new Bruce Wayne so that people wont know hes dead.(and keep Wayne corp from dissolving) It seems like Damien will have some form of control over him to keep him in step. Of the other batmen, i hope only one is real. But it makes seance for them to dress as him, his symbol is far more important than any of theirs. I don't know about Harley...but its quite obvious that her and the joker will play some part in this. Really with batman dead what does that leave joker to do, bully the sidekicks? i mean that's fair and all but i think he will be quite broken up over not being able to be the one who killed batman. Fuck they might even try to make him a hero, or do something to being Bruce back just so he can have the chance to kill him. what im trying to get at is...I hate DC =/

• Does this also lead to other storylines like "Who will be the new Nightwing?" and "Who will be the new Two-Face?" and the much-demanded "Who will be the new Robin?" Also, when should I be ready to read the next Crisis on Infinitely Final Earths series, which retcons all of this nonsense and makes Batman into the version from the movies?

• I just wonder which one will be played by Shaq in a straight to DVD film spin-off... This whole powdered milk from a dead cash cow notion sounds about as appealing as a ethanol enema. e

• This is all just window-dressing. Two years from now, Bruce Wayne will be back in the Bat-suit, having been resurrected or cloned or crossing over from another Earth, one or two of the wanna-be's will be dead (at least until somebody brings THEM back), and DC will have four scantily clad women all pretending to be Wonder Woman.

• Two other interesting "clues"(?) to note: In the bulk of the "duos" that Snacky mentioned, note that one of the partners has a gun - interesting, since Bats has always been so opposed to guns yet used one on Darkseid. The exceptions to this are the Damien/Hush and Two-Face/Batwoman pairings. Also, why/what is the cloth Damien is holding that is wrapped around Hush's leg? An homage to the bandages, I'd assume, to let us know this is Hush and not Bruce, but why is Damien holding it like some sort of faux leash? Don't know that any of this matters, just pointing it out. And I don't read comics regularly except in TPB form, but I'm actually kinda intrigued by this. Yes, it reeks of Supes' dupes, but Bats has enough various sides/histories/reputations to make seeing different individuals claiming different POVs an interesting showdown. Plus, based solely on this image, my money's on Hush not being Hush. Or the masked Bats just being the new gun-friendly Brucey. (A fate worse than death?)

• loved the superman joke . As for Harley it could be she is there because the batman on the casket is the joker . and Hush is standing by Damien part of some scheme of his. as for Bat woman who says it will be a man in the bat suit plus the broken wheelchair may mean Oracle is involved also

• Harley being there should be considered that maybe the batman on the coffin is the joker. as for Batwoman the broken wheelchair could mean oracle is in the suit. ad by Damien is Hush part of some evil scheme of Damiens

• And Cassandra Cain is under the box Jason Todd is crouching on.

• From the image, it almost looks like each of the Batmen has a partner. For Tim, you get Harley, Nightwing has Alfred, Two-Face gets Batwoman, Hush gets Damian (lucky him), and Guns'and'Ammo Bats has the body in a box. Some of these make sense - Alfred spent a lot of time raising Dick, Two-Face and Batwoman have a love of Montoya and matching color schemes, Hush and Damian are both annoying brats. The only thing I can come up with for Bat-Todd & and the body in the box is a mutual respect based on being wormfood.

• ZeroCorpse- Bucky did go after Punisher to gets Caps mask back. And some tools did think that punisher was going to try taking over the mantle of cap. Frank made a Captain America/punisher hybrid outfit for 1 issue, and some fanboys were jumping on it saying he's the new cap, but they were wrong/dumb. I think that was plenty of a tease by marvel. But then Castle admittd to Bucky he couldn't do it, and didn't have too much of a problem with bucky taking it.

• Please God, don't bring back Azrael.

• Yeah, marvel would never have a bunch of duplicate Heroes running around and fighting for the right to the same super hero identity. Marvel just changes the costume a bit and gives them a new name, and gives them their own comic: Scarlet Spider, War Machine, U.S. Agent, Thunderstrike, etc. We all know most of these people won't be dressed like Batman in two years. But "and then everyone followed the clearly delineated line of super hero succession." would make a boring story. It should be interesting to see how this plays out, and really I'm slightly disappointed that Azrael isn't there to fill in for Cyborg Batman.

• They've done this SO MANY TIMES at DC!!! Superman (as mentioned) had all the pretenders. When Batman's back was broken (Brokeback Batman) they did the "Imposter- Who could it be?" thing for a while. They did the one year later line with the big three disappearing and having their places taken by others. What is it with DC and their whole "WHO will be the new ____?" thing? This sort of thing is why I stopped reading DC comics. Civil War and the skrull invasion were a bit messy, but at least they didn't move their stories toward some lame group of Captain America impersonators all vying for flaghead's job. In Marvel, it works one of two ways when someone dies: 1. There's a clear successor to take up the name and there's no argument. 2. They let the hero be dead and come up with their own, new hero identities. Captain America died, and it was no question that Bucky takes his place. Wasp died, and it was no question that Hank Pym takes her place. Goliath died, and nobody stepped in and fought to be the new Goliath. Mockingbird "died" and nobody tried to be the new Mockingbird (then she came back on a Skrull ship). I can't think if any time in Marvel history when a bunch of people fought to become the bearer of a superhero name, unless you count the (ugh) Clone Saga, but even then they all took different names that were variations of the Spider-Man theme. OK, so the fake Captain America from the 60s was reactivated for a little while, and claimed to be Cap, but he ALWAYS thought he was Cap because he's a freaked-out dude, and there was never any doubt that he was the fake Captain America and that Bucky was the real successor. As for Batman, I can't believe anyone would see a conflict here at all. It's obvious that Dick should be Batman. It's ALWAYS been obvious that he should be Bruce's successor, and it's pretty stupid to make a big deal about it because the others weren't anywhere near as close to Bruce as Dick was. Technically, Dick is family... Perhaps more so than Batman's real son.

• Well, maybe Harley's there to get into *Batwoman's* pants. Eh? Eh? Aaaand...they gonna be letting Alfred work some classic SAS-fu on people, with that dashing beret and pistol (what is that...a Beretta 418)? And I'm sure it'd be terribly gauche to point out that, between him and the Ebaticator, they could probably drop the world supermurder rate threefold in about three weeks if they put their minds to it, wouldn't it? ;)

• You forgot the most important one. Ba-T.rex!

• Two Face? Realy? I dont read Batman enuff to know why.....is he good now? I kinda like the idea of the Robins all going after the right to be Batman.

• I wonder why they chose to include these characters and yet leave others out. Do they care what Batgirl is up to at the moment? Would Oracle not have an opinion in the matter? And nobody has mentioned the arm sticking out of the crate. Whats up with that? It is supposed to be a wayne-corpse?

• Okay I will play the ignorant sap on this one... why does DC comics suck so hard? Answer: It's this nonsense! I guess when a comic has been around for 70 years you have to try new things once in a while, but what's with this cheesy Superman's Death knock-off? And why would Batman die at the hands of anyone but the Joker? If Bats and Joker had one final duel where both died I could live with that, not this Final Crisis Darkseid garbage. I kind of like Batman Beyond better where Batman just got older and had to step down. He's still a hardass that wants to take out criminal scum, but now he's more of an angry adoptive dad figure using his detective skills to help out Batman Jr.

• As interesting as this could be, I find it more along the lines of comical. I'm not sure that was DC's intent.

• "One assumes their names are Batboy, Cyborg Batman, Steal, and the Eradicator." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What does sprayed out coffee do to a flat screen monitor? Jesus I hope this story runs a little better than that awful Supe's storyline did.

• You forgot Alfred. Also, nice Death of Superman reference.

• The guy with Damien is Hush, he had his face redone to look like Bruce Wayne. I am sure Batwoman is there to try to take over the name or to try to get into batgirls pants. As for Harley Quinn I am sure she is just there to cause problems to make the Joker happy, as he will with out a doubt be depressed for not being the one to finish off Batman. Oh and nothing on Alfred Super Spy?

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