Today the penultimate issue of Grant Morrison & Tony Daniel’s “Batman: R.I.P.” storyline comes out, and with it, one would assume, the reveal of one or both of the storyline’s big mysteries: the identity of criminal mastermind the Black Glove and the fate of Batman himself. I actually have no clue what happens and my friends who do have kept mum, and I haven’t stumbled across any spoilers online, either. It’s been a loooooong time since I looked forward to reading an issue of a comic with the same anticipation that I looked forward to watching an episode of Lost or late Sopranos. I actually gushed about it to the Missus this morning, something I’m not sure I’ve ever done about a monthly comic: “Something really big’s gonna happen to Batman but no one knows what it is!” Maybe this is what reading comics feels like for people who don’t work at Wizard and find out everything in advance.
Don’t tell my boss, but I stopped working to read it! Gah!