Batman Meets His Inspiration

[espanolbot]

This story comes from the Bruce Wayne: Fugitive event, after Bruce had escaped from Blackgate after being framed for the murder of an ex-girlfriend, and has decided to be Batman 100% of the time without having to bother being Bruce anymore. This causes the Batdick behaviour people have accused him of to reach boiling point, to the point where he won't even talk to Selina or his other friends anymore.

After much prodding from Dr Leslie Thompkins though, he finally visits her, and she informs him that a certain detective is dying and has asked to see him. Why should Bruce care about this detective you may ask? Well...



Batman arrives in the detective room, and he begins to explain the impact that Batman had not just on him, but also the GCPD and Gotham as a whole as well...









The case that Sloan wants Batman to solve is the death of the Waynes. He hands over all the paperwork that he has avaliable and explains to Batman that he'd made a promise to Bruce at his parents' funeral that he'd catch their killer, but now that he's dying he doesn't want to let him down. He explains that despite what the current GCPD and seemingly the whole world at large seems to think, he doesn't actually think that Bruce killed the woman he's been accused of murdered.




With this new perspective on himself, Bruce decides that he owes it to Sloan's faith in him to publically prove that he isn't a murderer, proving that the detective was right. So he calls up Oracle for help proving his innocence, which shocks her considering his previous attitude to the subject, and thus begins the warming up of Bruce's character once again (until Identity Crisis set him back into the Angry Jerk zone once again).

Okey, what would people like me to post next?

- Witchfinder
- Devil's Advocate
- Punisher: Born
- The Kents
- Gotham Central

And if people are interested, I talk about how police corruption is dealt with in Batman comics such as Gotham Central and the like,
http://espanolbot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/police-corruption-in-gotham-city.html

Comments

[silverhammerman]

I don't think I've ever seen much of Punisher: Born, so it'd be nice to get a look at that. Gotham Central might be nice too.
What's The Kents though? Is that the one that's just about the Kent family going back to the Old West and whatnot?

[darkknightjrk]

Yeah--John Ostrander wrote it, as I recall.

[espanolbot]

The Kents is more the history of the Kent as they move to Kansas from Boston, through Bloody Kansas, up through the Civil War up to the 1880s or some such.

It's good, though very dense.

[espanolbot]

Well looks like I'll be doing Born then Witchfinder and GC then. :)

[big_daddy_d]

Black Dynamite? O.O

[darkknightjrk]

See, when I was first looking at the page, before I started reading, I thought of Bruce's tenancies for disguises and for half a second I thought, "Is...is he running around in blackface?" O_O

[espanolbot]

He did that once before settling with the Matches Malone persona, Joker saw through it instantly.

[darkknightjrk]

...Seriously? Like, literal blackface?

...Scans? O_O

[espanolbot]

Well, more he disguised himself as a black guy for a panel, and the Joker compares him to Al Jolson. Scans up if I have the trade at my flat.

[icon_uk]

Dick used a black disguise (using a full face mask) on at least one occasion in his Hudson U days, to get into the mansion of a rich guy who was more than slightly racist, working on the assumption that being black, no one there would pay attention to him.

[eyz]

I need a scan of this as well!
The whole Joker finding out-thing.

Didn't he also pass as a black janitor once, around No Man's Land, in one of those gazillion side-books?

[espanolbot]

Found it, posting it soon. :)

[majingojira]

Interesting, but when I red the title, I thought it would be Batman meeting the Shadow.

[darkknightjrk]

Well, by now Shadow was probably licensed by someone else, but yeah, I was thinking along those lines, like maybe Alan Scott.

[icon_uk]

I was thinking Zorro, though Batman DID meet the Shadow on one occasion in the 1970's.

[starwolf_oakley]

Infinite Crisis had the whole "Joe Chill was caught" addition, which I guess is supposed to explain Batman being less Batjerk after pre-Infinite Crisis made him Batjerk.

Bruce is at his most Batjerkiness when other people don't live up to his standards. This is why he lodged a batarang in Jason Todd's jugular to save the Joker's life. This is why he created Brother Eye after Zatana's memory spell just stopped working on him. This is why he got mad at Wonder Woman for killing Maxwell Lord so Max wouldn't use Superman to kill people.

[shadowpsykie]

This is why he created Brother Eye after Zatana's memory spell just stopped working on him

welli always felt that that assy ness was jusifed to a degree..

[biod]

Was I the only one expecting the Grey Ghost?

[wizardru]

No, though I expected that it would be a scan from Batman Adventures, based on the animated continuity (which is the only place Grey Ghost comes from, iirc).

[icon_uk]

It is. There's also a terrific BTAS comic story where the Grey Ghost meets his biggest fan and who views GG as the inspiration for his lifes work... an actor named Matt Hagen.

It's a hoot! :)

[lieut_kettch]

I was expecting Alan Scott.

[q99]

It's always sad when someone asks Batman to solve the Wayne's case.

-Witchfinder-

I'll go with that :)

[lieut_kettch]

Y'see this cat Sloan is one bad mother--

[an_idol_mind]

Shut yo' mouth.

[lieut_kettch]

But I'm talkin' about Sloan...

[an_idol_mind]

Then we can dig it.

[runespoor]

I-I'm not crying or anything. I have something in my eye, that's all!

[janegray]

This is a real great scene.

[dahlia_moon]

This sounds like a very awesome story line. <33333 And I'm loving the art.