artist Patrick Gleason talked to USA Today yesterday as part of the ramp-up to tomorrow’s release of Batman & Robin #18, the issue in which Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth (silently) deal with the death of Damian Wayne, the most recent Robin and Batman’s son.Along the way, he cited a number of influential stories that gave a sense of why, even though comic book deaths are rarely “final,” they still matter.While writer Peter Tomasi cited the deaths of Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborn in the classic Amazing Spider-Man #122, Gleason’s examples were even more interesting; he chose stories that were not only more recent, but more temporary as well.
