Batman: Death and the Maidens

[ratcreature]

I've just read Batman: Death and the Maidens #9 (written by Greg Rucka, art by Klaus Janson) and right now I'm not all that pleased with the series. Maybe it is because I haven't (re-)read all parts in one setting, as I suspected all along while reading, that it was better suited to be read as graphic novel than as monthly, but I don't quite get it.

For one, should R'as' death turn out to be permanent, and it looks like that from his corpse being burned, I don't like that. More importantly, why is Nyssa now heading his organization? I mean, I get why the brain-washed cultists now follow her, but as I understood it, she now follows in R'as al Ghul's footsteps and I have no idea why she would want to do that. We just have Nyssa and Talia as a kind of incestuous sisterly couple heading the genocidal eco-terrorist cult, and everything else is the same. Or am I missing something?

I liked Nyssa better as a challenger to R'as power and Talia as a somewhat independent player. *grumble*

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[fripple.livejournal.com]

Woah, just met the new lj comment box. Strange.

Anyway, it's funny you should mention clones, because part of the Legion storyline involves a big room chock full of naked Ra's bodies, and the implication that his consciousness sort of moved into new shells as it needed them. So in theory the DC folks can bring him back any time they want. Which is why even burial is a bit of an empty gesture; they've already explained how he's going to return.

Personally, I think physical ends to cerebral villains is kind of missing the point, but maybe that's me.