The crocodile farm in the sky

A good friend of mine once made a remark about Batman’s ultimate fate. He reasoned that, should DC Comics ever decide to kill Batman, the character should not die at the hands of one of his maniacal arch-enemies…but rather, from a bullet fired by a random criminal in a random alley. Such a demise would be most fitting for the character, providing a very appropriate and ironic coda for his life and his mission up to that definitive, final point.

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