Midnightist

Really huh there must be some great new evil that has caused the oldy neutrals to once again lurk in the shadows and help the helpess little goody goodies lol

wat up COPS

Huh as much as I hate to say some character just can't have a character change. Trust me it's kinda hard to say because I'm black and I love different races or sexes in comics. Authority was such a great book to me because no one was really a WASP. The thing is the race can really only be changed when the character isn't well known outside the comics. I bet if the Green Lantern was black comic fans may have been mad but the common people wouldn't have been because of Justice League. Kingpin prolly worked because MCD was such a good actor but people prolly didn't really recognize Kingpin and weren't used to him. Nick fury is the same way outside comics almost no one would know who he is and what made it even better was he was based off of Sam L Jackson and then played by Sam L Jackson.

IMO this is just the next logical step to the Batman universe. We all now that Batman like characters have been building for years, sidekicks, replacement Batmen reformed villains etc. He's spent close to 80 years just collecting followers like a cult. Everyone inspired but what he had done.  I think that like a lot of people this may not last to long simply because it is such a drastic change from the is a possibilty but it may not have been intended to last in the first place. Maybe it's just the set up for a new tragedy in Bruce's life where everything he's doing is going to fall apart who knows. 
 
But in regards to Batman being just an urban legend honestly I think the time for that was over a long time again because although Batman may work from the shadows still everyone by now has to know he exists. He's apart of the Justice League and not just sitting at a desk he's in the fights with them and Richard (I hate calling him Dick) already revealed that their is a Batman in full view so really Bruce is just piggy backing of what Richard had done. Yet at the same time it doesn't really mean that they won't still have a type of mystery to the whole thing. Urban legends can be spread from city to city to different countries and people still not know they are real or not. Just because Bruce is collecting new members doesn't mean the whole world will know who they are. 
 
Also given that Batman is two people I doubt it will become obvious that either way may be Batman. One of the common ways to reconceal a blown identity was to have someone dress in a costume and pretend to be the hero. Well neither one has to pretend to be anything they are the real deal. Also I think this may add a new level of fear to the methos because instead of criminal thinking of Batman as just one guy now they have to contend with a whole "army of Batmen " and that alone may instill fear like the police.   
 
But lets not forget that this is just another idea and another something new to through in the pot of the Batman story. For Christ sake he's been around going on 100 years and he hasn't really changed much. This same principle was used on the Green Lantern to make him into something special and it allowed for multiple stories and a good well of ideas to come forward. but this is not a OMD BND type situation where the entire Batman universe is rewritten saying Batman's identity was never just one guy. If people don't respond well it will end and go back to the way things where and people will just try again no big thing this is totally something that can be fixed. I honestly don't see this lasting though not because the storyline will fail but just because it seems designed to maybe do so to create an even bigger and more amazing storyline.

" Grabs the plush doll then runs off with it. :P "