so what exactly happened to batman in the final pages of failsafe the finale of writer chip zdarsky and artist jorge jimenezs first story arc in december 6s batman 130when last we left the caped crusader failsafe batmans robotic counterpart created by his own subconscious backup version of himself the batman of zurenarrh its complicated seemingly blew batman to smithereens on the frozen arctic tundra outside of supermans fortress of solitudeart from batman 130 image credit dcbut it wasnt that simple despite tim drake believing batman went kablooey it turns out failsafe actually transported batman in some manner to a rainy alleyway presumably in gotham city a response to the compassion programming the dark knight successfully uploaded to failsafe just minutes beforeso exactly what happened to batmanchip zdarksy warned us he was about to give the worst interview ever when we had a chance to ask him a few questions about the story arcs finale and the cliffhanger it ended onand it turns out he wasnt kiddingim going to tell you nothing zdarksy responded asked if readers were supposed to know or understand any more than batman appears to be transported to an alley maybe the gun has sent batman to heaven and his version of heaven is just having a nice lie down in crime alleyall ill say is batman isnt dead but failsafe completed his programwell thats a little something as for interpreting what the result of the compassion introduced to failsafes program ishe shot him with compassion says the writer a loving kinder ray gunzdarksy was a little more forthcoming about the fate of failsafe however confirming our speculation that when the robot turned from red to blue and said its program is ended it flew off to hibernate in a cocooncradle until needed again and will return to the pages of batman someday i think thats safe to say he says failsafe is out in the world but hes a changed robot isnt he what does giving compassion to a singleminded robot look like hell be back 100 it was too much fun writing an unstoppable machine to not have him be a thing in the futureart from batman 130 image credit dcso what happens to batman next zdarksy gave us a few hints while dc gave newsarama readers the first look at some pages from months batman 131 by zdarksy and hawthorne and adriano di benedetto check those pages which include some very interesting images well let you draw your own conclusion from and covers out belowtim has to deal with what happened in the arctic and not only that he has to deal with what he sees as a batman that isnt fully himself says zdarksy as for batman were really giving a lot of bruce wayne in this next arc as he struggles to move on from what failsafe did to him and mike hawthorne draws the hell out of it his bruce wayne is a movie star that could break you