Polygon:

“If you show a character’s birth and a character’s death, you own a version of that character," James Tynion IV told me, when I asked him about his plans for the future of Batman.

It’s something he was told by Scott Snyder, the writer on Batman from 2011 until 2016, who may have heard it from Grant Morrison, the writer on Batman from (with a few gaps) 2006 to 2010. Both Morrison and Snyder gave their own takes on Batman’s end within the pages of their runs.

Tynion is applying that adage to his own work, as he prepares to leave a Batman book that he’s been writing for nearly 50 issues, on a twice-monthly schedule that’s lasted two years. But if he’s going to make his mark, he’ll have to show us the end of not just Batman, but the assorted group of allies, proteges and surrogate children he’s collected.

And that’s what Tynion plans to do with “Batmen: Eternal,“ the final arc of his run on Detective Comics, which kicked off this week. He’s going to examine the end of the entire Bat-family. That’s somewhat ironic, considering that his run has also been all about recovering the past — echoing a lost era of Batman comics and repackaging its themes for a modern audience.

I’ve really enjoyed the Rebirth-era of DC Comics, specifically Batman, so I’m excited to see how Tynion intends to wrap up his run.