DC comics recently announced that the Earth 2 annual will hit the stands on May 29th. The biggest reveal about ts announcement is that a new Batman will enter that universe! Anyone that has been reading the "Earth 2" comic knows that Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman of that world, died when the saved that planet from destruction The issue will be written James Robinson and the art will be provided by Yildiray Cinar, Cafu and Julius Gopez. (Earth 2 is an alternate universe or reality concept that DC publishes to bring fresh perspective to their heroes.)
So who will Robinson choose to follow in the footsteps of that world's original Batman? Even money is on Dick Grayson but the above illustration is decidedly dark in tone. So does that mean that world also had a Damien that we didn't know about?
My money would be on the Jason Todd of that planet. Why? Well, *spoiler alert* thanks to the recent solicit for "Red Hood and the Outlaws" due February 20th, if one Jason Todd dies in this universe then wouldn't it be fitting to resurrect that character in the Earth 2 universe?
Below is the cover to "Red Hood and the Outlaws #17.
DC loves the concept of Jason Todd and they may be more in love with the idea of killing him off which has been done several times. Hopefully if the Earth 2 version turns out to be Jason Todd he'll get a little longer shelf life to further explore his character. He is usually characterized as harder edged with a propensity for breaking the rules. Maybe the Earth 2 version will be a nice guy. But I doubt it and I doubt he will be allowed live past a whole year.
Goodbye in advance Earth 2 Jason Todd, we hardly knew ye.
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