Is The Damian Wayne Robin Coming Back From The Dead?

It certainly appears that the son of Bruce Wayne is refusing to even let death be the end of his story.

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I mean, maybe we should have suspected something was up when DC trotted out Robin Rises instead of Robin … Still Dead. But even though Damian Wayne was killed off near the end of Grant Morrison’s run on Batman Incorporated, DC is making it appear he’s on his way back early next year.

The big news came yesterday when writer Peter Tomasi took to Twitter that since the January solicitations were going to spoil the upcoming twist in the story anyway, he was going to beat them to the punch by tweeting out the full Patrick Gleason cover to Batman and Robin #38. He was true to his word:

The intriguing part is that DC had previously gone to some effort to avoid ruining how Robin Rises would turn out. Are Tomasi and company setting us up for a swerve, or does everyone involved believe that the buzz created by knowing that an apparently bulletproof Damian coming back would be better than keeping it a secret?

Damian has quite a few fans, and reaction to Tomasi’s tweets was almost entirely positive, so maybe this is a case of spoilers working to DC’s advantage. We’ll find out in January.