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Spoilers follow for Tom King's Batman #50 ...
2. Bravo to Tom King for a story that completely turns on its head the entire fifty issues that came before. I mean, between Gotham Girl, the Flashpoint Batman Thomas Wayne, and Skeets, there's almost no part of King's last forty-nine issues that that last panel doesn't totally revamp.
3) As you know I switched to singles for the issues that'll eventually make up Batman Vol. 7: The Wedding so as not to have Batman #50 spoiled for me (and I'm equally proud of the fact that I did manage to avoid the spoilers, thank you very much). To that end, to make up a little time, I started to jot down some review ideas for that book based on Batman #45-49 ... which I then had to almost entirely throw away once I read Batman #50, so completely did the fiftieth issue change my understanding of and perspective on those issues. Almost 750 words, kaput. See #2; this is not a little thing Tom King pulled off here.
4. People are mad, I know, because they feel DC promised a wedding and did not deliver a wedding. I wonder particularly about the title at the top of the cover, which says "The Wedding." But then, I don't know, thinking about title vernacular, like there was an episode of Agents of SHIELD this past season called "The Honeymoon" that was not actually about a honeymoon; rather, considering the title after the fact, there's an implication that the title means "A Question of the Honeymoon" or "About the Honeymoon." Possibly we could interpret "The Wedding" as "What Happened When They Got Ready for the Wedding" or "On the Day of the Wedding ..." (I know, I know, that doesn't mitigate six "Prelude to the Wedding" specials, I know.)
5. That said, if your money wasn't well spent on that Bruce/Alfred scene, I can't help you.
6. Someone out there just said, "... and Bruce couldn't even get off his phone!" Dear reader, if the grand conspiracy just revealed has taught us nothing, let it cause us to pause long enough at least to wonder, what is Bruce doing on his phone that's so important?
7. I don't for a second believe Bane is the mastermind here.
8. Bane has got both Skeets and the Flashpoint Batman Thomas Wayne in his arsenal. Is it more likely that Bane is so clever as to have caused Skeets to cause Booster Gold to create an alternate timeline where the Waynes weren't killed just so Booster could reverse that timeline so that he could then go tell Batman and Catwoman about it and that Bane can trick out Flash's cosmic treadmill to cause both Batman and the Flash to see a specific vision of Flashpoint all just to influence Catwoman to leave Batman -- or could it be (cue Dana Carvey's Church Lady) Dr. Manhattan?
9. If Batman #50 is not Batman and Catwoman's wedding but is a low-key Rebirth/Watchmen/Doomsday Clock tie-in, will that help soothe some of the upset over the early spoilers?
10. Why aren't we talking more about the fact that King's Batman #50 brought his Batman/Elmer Fudd special into continuity? I think the DC Trade Paperback Timeline just exploded. And if the Porky Pig in King's special isn't the same as in the forthcoming Lex Luthor/Porky Pig special, are we headed for Crisis on Infinite Looney Tunes?
That's all, folks!
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