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Bummer... but frankly, nothing's going to bring me down today. ; )

I, for one, am looking forward to it. There are more than enough Bruce as Bats stories, and Captain America and the Flash have both proven that these things can work out well if the execution is there.

The really funny thing is, the solicits for the upcoming Batman, Detective, and Nightwing issues really aren't even trying to hide what is going to happen. And wasn't there an interview with Morrison that outright said there was going to be a change? Things are being handled far differently than how Marvel does things.

Birds of Prey never recovered from the departures of Simone and Black Canary. I'm sure we'll get a "Batman and Robin" book and maybe a relaunched Nightwing.

Robin and Nightwing titles being ditched, at least for a while, makes sense. But Birds of Prey being dumped doesn't really make all that much sense.

Unless they intend on launching an Oracle solo series. Which would really STILL be BoP, since Oracle can't really operate solo, but it could serve as a relaunch/repositioning---with Oracle interacting more with other DC heroes (not necessarily just women anymore) on an issue by issue basis.

Ah, so basically nowhere to see Manhunter at all in a few months. That's a downer. It was bad enough likely never seeing Chase again, but now Kate too, that sucks.

Yeah, I'm still waiting to actually see what happens, though. Cancellations are meaningless if, say, they all start over with new number ones. Not that I think that's what's going to happen, necessarily, but I'm pretty sure that this isn't really the end for any of the relevant characters.

Cripes. I can actually remember buying Robin #1 fifteen years ago. And loving it.

I've dropped the book several times since then, and it was never as good as when Dixon and Grummet started it, but it's still a little sad to see it go.

I'm sad for Robin. The other I dropped some years ago.
They'll return, but if they go to 3.99, I think that I'll not return.

I'm not fussed. Simone had a great run on BoP, but that's already over. I'd rather see creatively struggling titles cancelled so that the overall standard can be raised a bit.

Don't fret so - http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17496

Exactly, Rich, like I mentioned, this story seems to basically confirm the Batman RIP rumors!

I'm really sad to see Robin go. Ever since Dixon took on the title, it was going really well. Tim also happens to be my favorite character. But I have faith that DC is just shaking things up due to "RIP."

Due to those RIP rumors, I'm not terribly concerned about Robin and Nightwing; I'd have liked to see the numbering kept at least long enough for Robin to reach #200, but whatever.

Birds is a little more concerning, since it's been separate enough from the Batbooks that there's no obvious reason it would need a relaunch following RIP, and it's trailing the others in sales by a fair amount. Best-case scenario for it is probably a relaunch as more of a Bat book, likely focusing on the "other" Bat characters who aren't going to have their own book, who do happen to be mainly female (i.e. Oracle, Batgirl, Catwoman, Huntress, possibly Tim Drake depending on how things shake out.

At this point I feel that Birds of Prey being cancelled is a mercy killing. The book has been floundering horribly since Simone left. The recent "new direction" set up the book has going isn't helping at all, and this "are Misfit and Black Alice really sisters?" subplot Bedard has cooked up just reeks of bad fanfiction. I only hope that, once the dust settles, Huntress ends up somewhere good (and written by someone without a penchant for melodramatic exposition).

This is not a good day for me. Nightwing is my favorite character and I was really starting to come around on the Robin comic. So now I shall keep wondering "What's Next"

Wait...Batman is going to DIE? I, a faithful reader of Batman RIP, had no clue!

Oh, wait...the title of the book...oh yeah.

Looks like Batman, like Duffman, can never die...only the actors who play him.

i'm not surprised. i've been saying this for what feels like a month now: Neil Gaiman told MTV that he was writing the last issues of Detective Comics and Batman. so i think we can expect those to get canceled too. http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/10/15/neil-gaiman-writing-batman-as-we-speak/

So that's me crossing Birds off my list as well as Legion - although if $3.99 is going to become the standard comic price, that'll be maybe the whole order going bye-bye...

I remember back in 1994 all the X-Men comics were cancelled...but not really, since they were all renamed and renumbered for the Age of Apocalypse story. (Which was quite cool, and let them spin off X-Man into his own book whilr bringing Cable back at the same time...neato.) I mean, they brought back Blue Beetle. And Booster Gold. And friggin' Jason Todd. I'm pretty sure BATMAN is still going to show up on the spinner rack.

Geez, that's a good way to give me a heart attack. Three of my favourite books, gone in one fell... pardon the pun with all the bird imagery... swoop.

Re: Manhunter - she makes more sense as a JSA cast member, even if the absolute last thing JSA neds now is another cast member.

Looks like the list of DC books I still read is significantly lessened

I'm really sorry to see Robin go. The Tim Drake minis were pretty much what got me to start picking up DC books as a kid and the characters one of my favorites, probably my favorite DC hero. Not to mention he's pretty lame in Teen Titans right now and Robin was the best book featuring him.

I can't believe people are really falling for this. It's just a marketing stunt a la Age of Apocalypse.

Well, I enjoyed Age Of Apocalypse, and this one's got a solid writing team, so it all sounds good to me!

Well...shoot. I just lost Manhunter and now Birds Of Prey...*grumble*

As long as Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and The Boys come out every month, I don't care what gets cancelled.

You forgot the most important part: They're being replaced by three new titles: Spoiler, Spoiler Confidential and The Spoiler Chronicles.

They're lying. It's all a ploy to get us to believe that R.I.P. has lasting impacts.

[...] been trying to tell everyone about this for a few weeks. Now I’ve decided to go on record with this futuristic Batman vision in light of the three [...]