Better break out your black arm bands guys
Apparently DC Comics are planning to kill off Bruce next summer and leave one of the Robins to inherit the mantle of the bat from him. Here's a link to the story below.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13
I'm sure this is just a stunt to coincide with TDK getting released next summer, the kind of media attention it will bring to the comic books couldn't hurt with the movie being out and it might even get non fans to pick up the book like with the death of Superman ten years ago and the more recent death of Captain America over at Marvel.
Nobody really dies in the comics so I'm assuming this won't be a permanent arrangement, but it will be a very interesting storyline and one I look forward to following quite closely.
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The Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect... but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly.... timey-wimey.... stuff.