Like , frankly ? You do n’t need to know more than that . Happy birthday , Brucie , we amaze you one and a one-half million bats .

This month differentiate 80 years since the world ’s greatest detective appeared in the varlet of Detective Comics , and to celebrate the social function , DC has unveiled a plethora of events it will use to celebrate its most darling Bat - Word . These range from the ordinary , like panels at SXSW and WonderCon , to the expected — a hardcover comics anthology and the highly expect release of Detective Comics ’ 1000th issue later this calendar month — to even the whacky , like Batman - theme celebrations at Six Flags , or even an full channel cater by AT&T web runningBatman - ground computer programing .

But then my friends , there ’s thebats . 1.5 million of them , to be accurate .

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The at-bat come up in , according tothe Hollywood Reporter , as part of the celebrations at SXSW in Austin , Texas . While the conventionality itself will feature the launching of exclusive Bat - merch , photo chance , and a elephantine wall painting by an undisclosed local artist , on March 15 a swarm of one and a half million cricket bat will be free over Congress Bridge . BecauseBatman . How many Man - Bats will be loose has yet to be reassert , but I ’m assuming some zero .

But regardless of there being so many cricket bat , and so few Man - Bats , I do n’t know how this will happen . I do not empathise the logistics of how it will happen . How do you wranglebats ? Can bats be wrangled ? What is this going to even wait like ? How do you get the bats to come back ? What if you ’re in Austin , Texas , on non - Batman - establish job and are just fucking petrified at the sudden blowup of bat descending on the city ! ?

I am very excited to find out though . Sorry , Bruce , your birthday bashes might be upstage by the gross nightmare that is a cloud of 1.5 million squash racquet .

William Duplessie

UPDATE 3/9 : It change by reversal out that the Bats are actually already in and around Congress Bridge , as partone of the largest Bat coloniesin Texas . Although DC ’s press material indicate they will “ unloosen ” the bat on March 15 to score Batman ’s special day , the Bats actually regularly go forth in grand fashion every night in Spring and Summer , so really , Batman ’s co - opting the great power of nature here . give thanks you to everyone who allow us know that Austin only has slightly less to revere as part of Batman ’s 80th Birthday solemnization .

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