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scans_dailyPareidolia is related to patterns, echoing this three-years-in Batman maxi-series' subtitle.
It's also related to perception, echoing the motifs of the two previous stories. We Are The Wounded concerned tactile feeling, and The Voice In The Tower was audial - it'd ended on the rejection and acceptance of guiding voices.
Pareidolia opens on the acknowledgement of another motif that occurred in those two stories: ' [Gotham City, y]ou have always suffered fires. '
Batman defined pareidolia.
' But tonight there is another fire in Gotham..
' .. and I've had enough.
Batman, taking a resident's advice, " follow[ed his] feet. "
He came eventually to the source of the fire.
" There's a body here. " he communicated to Jim Gordon.
The body was taken to Gotham coroner Dr. Sereika, who couldn't immediately answer questions about it.
The next afternoon, Bruce described the problem to Alfred.
There was criminal history in the library:
(Love that panel with Bruce sitting in the chair - great illustration of the physical effects of being Batman.)
(" Skinless skull with sloughed-off skin falling past the neck " is a wonderfully nasty evocation of the Red Hood's solid red featureless helmet and cape.)
(Bruce is seeing something like a smile and associating it with a Gotham gang that might've killed people in a disfiguring way.)
Batman went out to the Rookery to get evidence - and found a killer he thwarted on its borders.
That man, running away from him, stopped short of crossing into the Rookery.
Batman, pulling him up, asked " Why did you stop? "
Back at where he'd discovered the body, Batman called " Gordon. You there? "
(The Rookery makes murderous Satanists wary.)
(Pagecount's 7 and a little over 3/10ths of 22 from June 2025's Batman: Dark Patterns #7.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Hayden Sherman, colors're Triona Farrell, and letters're Frank Cvetkovic.
Publisher's DC.)
It's also related to perception, echoing the motifs of the two previous stories. We Are The Wounded concerned tactile feeling, and The Voice In The Tower was audial - it'd ended on the rejection and acceptance of guiding voices.
Pareidolia opens on the acknowledgement of another motif that occurred in those two stories: ' [Gotham City, y]ou have always suffered fires. '
Batman defined pareidolia.
' But tonight there is another fire in Gotham..
' .. and I've had enough.
Batman, taking a resident's advice, " follow[ed his] feet. "
He came eventually to the source of the fire.
" There's a body here. " he communicated to Jim Gordon.
The body was taken to Gotham coroner Dr. Sereika, who couldn't immediately answer questions about it.
The next afternoon, Bruce described the problem to Alfred.
There was criminal history in the library:
(Love that panel with Bruce sitting in the chair - great illustration of the physical effects of being Batman.)
(" Skinless skull with sloughed-off skin falling past the neck " is a wonderfully nasty evocation of the Red Hood's solid red featureless helmet and cape.)
(Bruce is seeing something like a smile and associating it with a Gotham gang that might've killed people in a disfiguring way.)
Batman went out to the Rookery to get evidence - and found a killer he thwarted on its borders.
That man, running away from him, stopped short of crossing into the Rookery.
Batman, pulling him up, asked " Why did you stop? "
Back at where he'd discovered the body, Batman called " Gordon. You there? "
(The Rookery makes murderous Satanists wary.)
(Pagecount's 7 and a little over 3/10ths of 22 from June 2025's Batman: Dark Patterns #7.
Writing's Dan Watters, art's Hayden Sherman, colors're Triona Farrell, and letters're Frank Cvetkovic.
Publisher's DC.)
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Date: 2025-07-14 02:01 am (UTC)