Two pages from Batman, Inc #6

[paultmd]

Finally this title is getting to what I was hoping it was. I know people loved the recruitment of the first few titles, but this issue is all about Bruce Wayne taking control of Batman, Inc.



Old allegiances are reaffirmed(The Outsiders gains a new leader and the identity of the Hong Kong representative of BI, Blackbat, should make many people here happy), oaths are implied, giving membership into Batman Inc some gravity, seeds are planted, new villain Nero Nykto is not what he seems... in short, the issue is full of the kind of greatness that Morrison brought us in the early days of JLA.

But these two pages were my favorite(and leave two more for others to post later)

Comments

[darkblade]

Okay I'll give Morrison credit thats kind of clever.

[jaybee3]

When he does stuff like this (poking fun at himself with the whole "everyone will know BW is Batman" thing or in a round-about-way with the whole dumb - IMO - Hush masquerading as Bruce storyline) I really like Morrison.

And I was really betting that the first scans from this issue posted would be of "BlackBat" - probably my happiest surprise from DC of the year - especially coming from Morrison who's never seemed to be at all interested in using the alter ego of "BlackBat".

[misterbug]

Hush masquerading as Bruce was alllll Paul Dini's idea. It happened to fit with Morrison's story (i.e., no-one would be asking where crazy ol' Bruce Wayne had disappeared), so you could read Batman & Robin and/or Dini's book and they wouldn't hugely contradict each other.

But, yeah. Very stupid idea, I thought.

[keeva]

"People buying shares" seems to indicate that this is part of Wayne Enterprises and thus a for-profit venture, to go back to a previous thread.

[protogarrett]

Superheroes should have an "I am Batman Day" where they all dress as Batman. I imagine that would screw with so many heads.

[icon_uk]

And that's more or less the story of the most recent "Brave and the Bold" episode.

[icon_uk]

Not really convinced by it though. Conspiracy theories are fine, but if there is proof the truth tends to emerge, and with Dick and Damian in particular, their ID's are pretty poor. Plus it wouldn't be random online nuts who would be putting this together, respected reporters and media outlets would make it their mission to find out the truth and a few messageboards wouldn't make a difference.

[ebailey140]

Well, they've done it with other members of the Bat Family...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF_TC9T0Qo8

[drexer]

I've read it as 'People are buying shares in Wayne enterprises because they know that the money might somehow end up in the hands of a Batman and that's AWESOME'.

At least for me it would be to imagine that I contributed 0.00000002€ to the grapple hook that Batgirl used to do a somersault and kick some punk's teeth out.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Hah! Beat me to it. XD

Oh Dami, you are so smooth.

[cloud_wolf]

>EERCCH<

I love it when Damian acts like a kid.

[screamsheet.wordpress.com]

So...Bruce Wayne is a troll?

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

That, and spreading 'credible' disinformation would require more than just a few posts on some random message board.

At least edit wikipedia!

[jarodrussell]

1. A respected reporter did put it together, Vicki Vale. How's her tell-all in Vanity Fair coming along?

2. Messageboards put stuff together all the time, they only do anything about it when it's funny. Given the times Batman has saved the world, I kind of feel like Anonymous wouldn't call him out, though.

[jarodrussell]

It's too bad he doesn't have a hacker working for him like Tim does.

[jarodrussell]

I'm disappointed to see that Gotham's premiere chat site uses CBR software, not 4chan's style of image boards.

[icon_uk]

1) I don't know, I never saw how that subplot ended. And that was BEFORE Bruce went public with his links to Batman

2) BatTroll1873 probably would... the one with the IP address in Arkham Asylum if nothing else.

[jarodrussell]

1. Pretty sure Bruce hired her to work for him, but I'm not 100% sure.

2. Yeah, but, again, Anonymous would give Batman a pass, which includes DDoS's BatTroll1873's ISP into the ground.

[jarodrussell]

Not to disagree with you, but I think Yost also used the Hush thing in the early Red Robin books, so...yeah.

[skitster]

Has Bruce shaved his eyebrows into the Bat symbol at the start of the second page?

[icon_uk]

Now I can't unsee it! :)

[pepperspray101]

GUYS! GUYS! PLEASE SCAN PANEL OF WINGMAN, OMIGOD, I HOPE IT IS WHO THINK IT IS....

[skitster]

They're prettier eyes than normal too. Must be his internet eyes.

[darkknightjrk]

"respected reporters and media outlets"

Really, there are none of those anymore...except in the DCU, where said respected reporters are ALREADY superheroes.

[darkknightjrk]

Someone needs to edit that trollface to put some bat-ears and say "U MAD, JOKER?" or something like that. :D