Wow. So, uh, they did Superman's death verbatim. Right down to nobody much caring how the hell he even died.
DC's been doing these teaser images periodically for a few years now; how much of that pic is literal and how much is symbolic remains to be seen.
That looks like Dick in the gray costume in the middle and Tim in the blue one off to the left. I think that's Alfred in the beret. That's gotta be Harv in the two-tone suit; can't say offhand who the guy on the box is but I'm going to go with Jason because I don't see him anywhere else. (Could also be Azrael, but you'd think they'd want to play DOWN the similarities to Knightfall. There's also a certain resemblance to the fake Batmen from earlier in Morrison's run, and to the Damian version of Batman from #666.) That looks like Damian with Hush off to the right.
Don't know who's under the box, but it looks like a woman's hand and I don't see Selina or Babs anywhere in the shot.
I think I'm actually most curious what Harl's doing in the shot.
It's kind of a cool pic, but I still don't really intend to pick up Battle. Countdown had a cool teaser pic too, but it turned out to be a bunch of stupid crap that had fuck-all to do with the Morrison story it was supposed to be a precursor to. I think I'll stick with the flagship Bat-books -- I'll read the O'Neil and Gaiman interludes, and the Dini and Morrison stuff when they come back (and apparently Dini's doing a Zatanna mini too), but it's hard for me to get interested in the extraneous tie-in stuff.
