DC’s Really, Really Long-Range Plans

The writer Paul Di Filippo brought to my attention a publishing project that puts all current "complete strip" series to shame: Batman Chronicles, a trade paperback series that promises, right in its ad copy, "Every Batman story in exact chronological order." As Di Filippo notes, since volume one appeared in April 2005, and volume two just made its appearance this month, and the fact that Batman's comics march on unabated, it looks like we're talking a three- or four-hundred year series with this one.

The bad news is that DC expects the same audience for Batman comics in 2148, a year when the disembodied head of Mark Millar will fly around the world raising a mutant army to assault the 350,000 surviving humans and finally let him write Superman; the good news is we'll all be dead long before having to experience the Batman Chronicles collection of stories featuring Orca.
 
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