Wasn't that Owlman?

Personally, it should be a "Death of Superman" type of thing. Several people taking up the mantle. Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Azrael, Damien, etc. Then let the fans kinda vote on their favorite. Maybe even a robot Batman or something. Make it interesting & complex.

No matter who officially took over, I vote Slade dons a batsuit (you know he has one) of his own and wreak all kinds of havoc for a while...>= )

I'd like to see captain cold, aka len snart take over the role of batman.

Picture this: SNARTARANGS

No. Nonono. Nooo!!!
Things that get voted on rarely make good stories.
Have some faith in the writers.
And if they do kill Batman, the story should not at all be identical to The Death Of Superman.

But, but Cap's death wasn't built up to at all, it was completely arbitrary. His death actually had nothing to do with Civil War at all.

What can be said? You're like Psycho Pirate, only, Black Adam hasn't punched a hole thru your head. Well, not yet.

I remember a story of Earth-1's Batman going to E-2, after that Bats died. Spooked Robin, who wasn't too happy about working with E-1 Bats. I think Hugo Strange was in that tale.

my thoughts exactly

And we now have another fine example why grammar on the realms is important.

I would like to commend the thread for, by and large, not going the tee-ball route with this quote. You are all better men than I.

Maybe it's because we're better Men that we don't agree with the quote, by and large?

And I didn't follow Civil War at all. I followed Captain America. Civil War certainly gave it some impetus to happen when it did, but ultimately, if not foreshadowed, per se, it felt "natural." It came across as a natural part of the ongoing story at the time, rather than just a rampaging alien falling from the sky.

Umm... what do you mean "by and large" ???

I would also like to point out that wolvedevil's post here was #4 on the thread and I commented on it in post #5, so, I wanted it known that I commented first.