Dark Knight Movie Shooting Forshadowed in Comic Book

 

I remember in the days following the attack, there were some stories in the news that it was predicted in Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns”, where a madman opens fire in a theatre.

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What they didn’t report on was Flash Vol 2 #30 from September of 1989. The story starts out with the Flash getting into an argument with his mother, then he takes his best girl to a movie. remember, this was 1989 and the first Batman with Michael Keeton had just came out.

You can see on the marquee behind her that one of the movies is Batman. Underneath Batman, you can see that “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is playing as well. That film starred Jack Nicholson as an inmate in a mental institution. Nicholson would go on to play the Joker in the first Batman film. On July 20th 2012 in Aurora Colorado, a man believing himself to be the Joker opened fire on a crowd who had come to see the premiere of the new Batman movie.

When a bullet presses against Wally’s neck, his super speed kicks in. He is able to run around the theatre at super speed and pluck all the bullets out of the air, and then dispose of the gunman. So in this comic published in 1989, the Flash stops a shooting in a movie theatre that is showing the new Batman movie.

I do think there is something supernatural at work here. Comic Book writers are sometimes able to pick up on future events and publish them before they happen.

Comic Book Death

Killing off comic book characters isn't a new thing. Throughout the history of comics there were many issues where you would believe a character had died, only to find out by the end of the comic that it was a fake death.

The first character I can remember staying dead for awhile was Robin. The fans actually voted to have him killed off, and yet they brought him back a few years later. There have been three Robins, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake. It was Jason Todd who took the big dirt nap for about ten years, but he was resurrected when the DC universe reality decided he should live and reasserted itself.

Comic Book Deaths are interesting stories, but they have become a cliche. You can't read a story where a character dies without wondering how they will return to life. Does this mean that superheroes are zombies? Yes, it kind of does. At least DC Comics is giving this idea a poke in the ribs with the upcoming "Blackest Night" event. In this storyline, every major character who has died in the DC universe will return as a zombie. I'm betting that it ends with a mass resurrection.



Lots of fans freaked out during the recent Batman "RIP" storyline, but the truth is Batman has died many times before. I'm not sure why Robin is accusing Superman. If Supes had anything to do with it, couldn't he just crack Robins skull like an egg?



Captain America died in 1968 during the war in Vietnam. He was resurrected and killed off again in 2007 for refusing to register his secret idenetity with the government. (Why is there always a full moon when a superhero dies?)



Mister Miracle was killed in the mid 1990's, was brought back to life and killed again last year.



Aquaman was killed off in the seventies and in 2006. He was replaced with a sword and sorcery type character, and I hear that sales of the Aquaman comic were so horrible after this they were cancelled. Aquaman will be back as a zombie in Blackest Night. I wonder if he will be able to command dead seafood? I just had an image of being attacked by a boiled lobster.


The entire Legion of Superheroes have been killed off and rebooted so many times I don't know where they stand today. Superboy survived, died as Superman, and came back.

So, the next time your favorite superhero bites the dust, hold on, chances are they will come back and die again.

Apocalypse

I was doing some comic book cover browsing a couple of days ago, and I found a couple of interesting comic book covers. Both these covers had the WTC on them, with the word "apocalypse" printed underneath them.



This image was taken from Batman Chronicles #21. I don't have the exact date of publication, but it was either in 96 or 97. Here is the full cover.



This is an image taken from Daredevil #227, Febuary, 1986.



The full cover.



Of course, there was no "apocalypse", but it was an apocalypse type event. Interesting that I should find both covers on the same day.

Edit: I apologize about the confusing text next to the images, my regular image host is down and I had to use an alternate of which I am not familiar.