Batman: Ghosts

[cyberghostface]

Disclaimer: This is 1/3 of a 48 page story.

The night before Halloween, Batman returns home after a lengthy fight with the Penguin. He feels something is strange. That night, he wakes to a presence in his room.





Thomas tells Bruce that he will be visited by three spirits. Later that night the clock strikes for the first itme and he awakes to find Poison Ivy in his room. Batman assumes that this is because of her.



They go back to a Halloween from Bruce's childhood, where his father had to work late and couldn't take him trick or treating.





She takes him to see the first time he met Lucius Fox, before he was Batman. Lucius is being mugged and Bruce stops the thieves. Lucius offers to work together with Bruce, but Bruce turns him down. Ivy asks Batman if this was how he honors his parents, and Batman responds that he made a promise to stop crime and that she wouldn't understand.

In his bed again, Bruce awakes to the clock striking a second time. He hears laughter in the halls and knows it can only belong to one person:





















"The spirits have done it all in one night."

Later that day, he meets Lucius Fox and makes a business proposal to help the less fortunate. 

That night...

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

Previous times this has been posted, I've said the idea Bruce didn't have any friends even before THE MISSION bugged me. This carried on to Clark Kent being a friendless outcast, and then we found out Barry Allen was a friendless outcast.

There was speculation of what was Bruce like as teenager and what Alfred and Leslie thought at the time. Teen!Bruce would try to "get involved" and it not going well.

"I don't mind being dismissed as a rich kid playing detective. I don't even mind getting the little card with the victim helpline. What I mind is the pity when they realize 'That's Bruce Wayne and his parents...' I will not be pitied."

[bradygirl_12]

Trick-or-treating cures everything! :)

[captainbellman]

"It's me, Bruce, your father. DOCTOR Thomas Wayne. I cannot stress that enough. Look at this bag. Look at IIIITTT"

[endis_ni]

While I'm not really feeling the writing, dear gods do I love that art. The panel with the Joker of Halloween Present has great composition, linework, colour, shading, everything.

Lovely.