What Could Detective Comics #940 Mean For An All-New Watchmen? (SPOILERS)

Published Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:30:49 -0500

Last updated Sun, 18 Sep 2016 04:00:58 -0500

Could this be where DC Rebirth is headed?

We've been pointing out for a few weeks now, how the Detective Comics series had marked Tim Drake, Red Robin, out for death.

From a disappearing presence on a cover…

To the establishment of "Retirony" in the plot…

And a major, serious showdown with a fleet of flying guns…

So it has come to pass. A dead Red Robin.

An acceptance he will never be able to take up.

And a crying Batman. That's the ~~fourth~~ fifth Robin he's lost (though two ~~three~~ came back and one didn't really die.)

Sorry, I mean two didn't really die. Because Red Robin is, instead… elsewhere.

As we guessed. For Batman readers who haven't been reading Superman titles, that's Mr Oz, established by Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr, and revealed in DC Universe Rebirth to have something to do with this whole Rebirth nonsense. Until now he's been concentrating on the Big Blue, seems to have something to do with the creation of the New 52 versions of Superman and Lois Lane, has something hiding behind some big doors, and has captured Doomsday. His name, his use of the OZ symbol that resembles that of the perfume bottle Nostalgia and his habit of using nine-panel screens to watch everyone, is intended to suggest that he is Ozymandias from Watchmen, a reality that has encroached on the DC Universe in Rebirth. It is also believed that Dr Manhattan is responsible for the universe losing ten years.

Well, now he has Doomsday and Red Robin. Could this be the beginnings of a new team?

An All-New Watchmen?

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