Bruce Wayne Held a Press Conference
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?If you haven’t read Batman & Robin #16, but want to, consider hitting the jump a massive, massive spoiler. Because it is a massive, massive spoiler about what happens at the end of the issue. (Via DC’s Source)
So Bruce Wayne has returned, but that’s not the news. That happened last issue of Batman and Robin, and besides, there was a comic called Return of Bruce Wayne. It was kind of obvious. No, the news is this:
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?Upon returning, Bruce Wayne held a press conference announcing that he’s been funding Batman all these years — a major, major change to the Bat-status quo (Batus quo? Sorry). Furthermore, he’s announced Batman is going “global,” which leads directly into Grant Morrison’s next Bat-series, Batman Inc. I figure this is big enough news that its worth covering on TR, and besides, if the last page of B&R doesn’t give your nerd parts a tingle…
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?…well, then something ain’t right with you.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.