Batman Is Going To Do WHAT?!?

DC Comics continues to shake things up in their comic book series, but unlike Marvel, people are reading their comics!  One of the most interesting developments seems to be taking place in Batman #24, which comes out today.  If you want to keep reading, just be aware that there are ***SPOILERS!!!*** coming up for this issue!


So...what direction are they planning on taking the Dark Knight, and why?  First, the what.  Batman is going to propose to Catwoman!  I'm not kidding, he really does!  As for the "why" that they're going this route, I'll let writer Tom King explain it:


“Everyone’s done vengeance, everyone’s done ‘The night is so dark.’ Giving Batman more pain doesn’t reveal anything about his character because he’s taken as much pain as he can. But giving him love and joy, that combines with the tragedy of his past into something new and never done before.”


He's not wrong, you know.  They have pretty much thrown everything that they could at Bruce Wayne to break him even more than he was after his parents were gunned down.  They've killed his side kick, broke his back, and have even killed him...but how will he react to being happy?  And why Catwoman?


“Catwoman is someone who’s seen his pain and has been through stuff as bad as he has been through. She says, ‘Look, both of us are broken, but we can be broken together.’ "


While we get to see the proposal today, we'll have to wait quite awhile to find out what happens afterwards.  King is currently working on the story arc The War of Jokes and Riddles, and it follows Zero Year chronologically, which will cover the next eight issues of the series.  So we'll have to wait until this fall to see what happens next.  DC is such a tease!