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thanekosThat was the work of Victor Fries, in response to one of Batman's early-in-his-career civilian assistants shattering his wife's body, heeding his wife-in-his-head.
Batman, setting out to stop the man's work, stopped by the " office " he'd set up for his team.
They'd left something behind for him.
( It reflected how he'd left them, and where they were. )
Batman, setting out to stop the man's work, stopped by the " office " he'd set up for his team.
They'd left something behind for him.
( It reflected how he'd left them, and where they were. )
thanekos#194'd seen his early-in-his-career hand-picked team of civilian assistants in an op that'd gone bad.
#195 saw them on a follow-up, tracking the mobster Peter Scotta's meeting with Derek Parke, sole survivor of a cryogenic attack on researchers at his company.
The meeting was interrupted by the attacker, and former lead of that research team - Victor Fries, turned endothermic by an accident with technology similar to the freezing gun he was carrying.
The gun chilled and killed Scotta and his men.
Parke, his plan to sell that cryogenic technology to Scotta as a weapon scuppered, fled.
One of Batman's team broke cover to help him away.
Batman dropped out of the sky, putting himself between Parke and Fries.
( He landed in Scotta's pond. )
#195 saw them on a follow-up, tracking the mobster Peter Scotta's meeting with Derek Parke, sole survivor of a cryogenic attack on researchers at his company.
The meeting was interrupted by the attacker, and former lead of that research team - Victor Fries, turned endothermic by an accident with technology similar to the freezing gun he was carrying.
The gun chilled and killed Scotta and his men.
Parke, his plan to sell that cryogenic technology to Scotta as a weapon scuppered, fled.
One of Batman's team broke cover to help him away.
Batman dropped out of the sky, putting himself between Parke and Fries.
( He landed in Scotta's pond. )
thanekosHe'd had his origin - an attempt to save his wife Nora from her illness had frozen her and left him cold.
He remade himself with the cryogenic technology whose unexpected weaponization'd done that - the same dialed-up-behind-his-back tech that Batman and his newly recruited civilian support team had gotten an unknowing hint of.
His colleagues got something more, when he called them to the site of his beginning.
" How could this have happened? " one of them asked, surveying the cold and broken aftermath.
" I hope nobody was here. " said another.
( The first discovered otherwise. )
He remade himself with the cryogenic technology whose unexpected weaponization'd done that - the same dialed-up-behind-his-back tech that Batman and his newly recruited civilian support team had gotten an unknowing hint of.
His colleagues got something more, when he called them to the site of his beginning.
" How could this have happened? " one of them asked, surveying the cold and broken aftermath.
" I hope nobody was here. " said another.
( The first discovered otherwise. )
thanekosThe team was Batman's, early in his career, to give him what he wasn't getting from Jim Gordon and Harvey Dent.
Its members - a Green Beret discharged on a frame-up, a forensic analyst not getting professional fulfillment at the FBI, an electronics shop owner whose brilliant amateur work wasn't being recognized, a criminal psychologist frustrated at having only pop appeal, and an ex-con finding it hard to get and live on work that wasn't criminal - were all talented, and all open to the purpose and validation Batman was offering.
He brought them together at a meeting he didn't attend in person.
( He spoke from a screen. )
Its members - a Green Beret discharged on a frame-up, a forensic analyst not getting professional fulfillment at the FBI, an electronics shop owner whose brilliant amateur work wasn't being recognized, a criminal psychologist frustrated at having only pop appeal, and an ex-con finding it hard to get and live on work that wasn't criminal - were all talented, and all open to the purpose and validation Batman was offering.
He brought them together at a meeting he didn't attend in person.
( He spoke from a screen. )
thanekosThe first fall was Batman's, in his past in his cave.
Alfred found him and patched him up.
In bed, Bruce told him about his hunt of the criminal Peter Scotta, in which he'd fallen at the last hurdle.
" Master Bruce, when was the last time you had a full night's sleep? "
" I believe I just did. "
" Unconsciousness from lack of blood doesn't count. "
" I don't.. it was.. sometime in February, perhaps? "
( Bruce picked up the pencil and pad he'd been working problems out on. )
Alfred found him and patched him up.
In bed, Bruce told him about his hunt of the criminal Peter Scotta, in which he'd fallen at the last hurdle.
" Master Bruce, when was the last time you had a full night's sleep? "
" I believe I just did. "
" Unconsciousness from lack of blood doesn't count. "
" I don't.. it was.. sometime in February, perhaps? "
( Bruce picked up the pencil and pad he'd been working problems out on. )
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #65
Sep. 27th, 2019 12:00 amcyberghostface
"[This story] may be my absolute favorite of all the mainstream superhero stories I’ve written. 'Going Sane' featured a Joker who believes that he’s killed Batman. With his mortal enemy gone he has no reason left to live—and his mind snaps. Now, if we snap we go crazy—but if the Joker snaps...he goes sane. What came next was a tender love story—a tragedy, really—about a gentle man who doesn’t know he was once a homicidal maniac with a permanent grin on his face." -- J.M. DeMatteis
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The Beautiful Ugly
Dec. 7th, 2018 12:20 pmcyberghostface
"The punishment of crime is something everyone has some feelings toward. And I think by the end of the story, it will be interesting to see if the readers side more with Two-Face or with Batman." -- Derek Fridolfs
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Batman and Jim
Sep. 15th, 2018 03:51 pmcyberghostface
Didn't really have anything big to post for 'Batman Day' today but here's a nice character moment between two partners.
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