Scott Snyder Reveals Batman's Death on Reddit

Scott Snyder, current writer of Batman and Justice League, did a no-holds-barred Reddit AMA yesterday in which he spilled the beans on how he sees Batman dying in the future! He cited a short he and artist Sean Murphy crafted for the anniversary special Detective Comics #27:

"Every writer’s Bruce Wayne has his own death, I guess right? They all die differently. Our version (and this is just ours) figures out a way to clone himself when he’s older. He initiates a program whereby a new bruce wayne clone wakes up every 27 years. the young bruce wakes with the memories only up to the point the bat(s) comes through the window. The old bruce welcomes him to the cave, clears out his own stuff in a furnace, and the new bruce faces his own gotham and designs his own cave. own enemies, own city, etc. we showed this (me and sean murphy) in our Detective #27 story, too. Sean and I have plans to return to this story sometime in the near future."

I have to say that I love Snyder’s broad vision for Batman. Much like Grant Morrison or Alan Moore, he takes into account the scope of the character’s past and future.

When asked why he’s not participating in the upcoming mega-crossover Convergence, Snyder replied

"I just have too much on my plate."

But he DID drop a small hint that big changes are coming, though out of the current Endgame arc.

"We have a lot happening in the Bat books right now, and that leads to big things in June."

Looks like we’re just going to have to wait. To check out the whole AMA, you can use this link right here.

Scott Snyder Reveals Batman’s Death on Reddit

By Skip Harvey | Dec 11, 2014