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scans_dailyIssue #2'd revealed their Tomb to Terry McGinnis and Kyle the cat (who knows magic).
Terry was under Gotham searching for children who'd gone missing - Kyle was along because Terry'd enlisted his aid.
Above them, Terry's ally Gestalt called in about the other problems facing them - geographical instabilities and the acquisitions of corporate tech-jerk Donovan Lumos.
Terry and Kyle landed in the Tomb of Owls.
They were.
" .. you've finally come home. "
" I'm so proud of you, Terry. "
" .. to the Batman. "
The Batman of the Owls lunged. He and Terry fought.
Terry punctuated his repudiation with a kick.
Kyle threw up a shield to protect them from the flocking Court members, then revealed who'd taught him how to do magic like that: John Constantine.
(Terry's abruptly - and correctly - connecting the " garden of light " to the Garden the fungal Bat mentioned.
Kyle being " the boy who fed [the children] to [the Garden] " describes the opening of #1, where his trying to profit from it backfired. The unnamed narrator in that issue is indeed John teaching Kyle.
As for the structure of what's happened so far, it's sequential - the first was monstrous Killer Croc, left by old Bruce to guard against the Court of Owls' resurgence. The second's the Court, who've been stewing in their locked-away Tomb - and have been co-opted by the third, the Garden.
The Batman of Owls is a Court mindgame that the Garden only made worse.)
The Court members gathered around them - Terry struck with blows and Batarangs.
The Batarangs exploded, opening a hole into which Terry and Kyle and the Owl-Bat fell.
As they did, Terry's ally Beam received a call he'd put in to her earlier, an echo of Gestalt's call to him.
" It's pure trauma under these streets. "
(Pagecount's just under 8 of 24 from September 2023's Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #3.
Writing's Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing. Art's Max Dunbar, colors're Sebastian Cheng, and letters're Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
Publisher's DC.)
Terry was under Gotham searching for children who'd gone missing - Kyle was along because Terry'd enlisted his aid.
Above them, Terry's ally Gestalt called in about the other problems facing them - geographical instabilities and the acquisitions of corporate tech-jerk Donovan Lumos.
Terry and Kyle landed in the Tomb of Owls.
They were.
" .. you've finally come home. "
" I'm so proud of you, Terry. "
" .. to the Batman. "
The Batman of the Owls lunged. He and Terry fought.
Terry punctuated his repudiation with a kick.
Kyle threw up a shield to protect them from the flocking Court members, then revealed who'd taught him how to do magic like that: John Constantine.
(Terry's abruptly - and correctly - connecting the " garden of light " to the Garden the fungal Bat mentioned.
Kyle being " the boy who fed [the children] to [the Garden] " describes the opening of #1, where his trying to profit from it backfired. The unnamed narrator in that issue is indeed John teaching Kyle.
As for the structure of what's happened so far, it's sequential - the first was monstrous Killer Croc, left by old Bruce to guard against the Court of Owls' resurgence. The second's the Court, who've been stewing in their locked-away Tomb - and have been co-opted by the third, the Garden.
The Batman of Owls is a Court mindgame that the Garden only made worse.)
The Court members gathered around them - Terry struck with blows and Batarangs.
The Batarangs exploded, opening a hole into which Terry and Kyle and the Owl-Bat fell.
As they did, Terry's ally Beam received a call he'd put in to her earlier, an echo of Gestalt's call to him.
" It's pure trauma under these streets. "
(Pagecount's just under 8 of 24 from September 2023's Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #3.
Writing's Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing. Art's Max Dunbar, colors're Sebastian Cheng, and letters're Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
Publisher's DC.)
