Okay, I woke up this morning and the first thing that popped into my head was, "The Black Glove isn't Alfred--that's too obvious. The Black Glove is Thomas Wayne, Jr.!"
I wasn't even thinking at all about Morrison's Batman last night. I went to my son's school concert. I read a bunch of this week's comics. Wrote a review for CBR. Watched CSI with my wife.
But my subconscious must have been working it out, because I awoke knowing exactly who the Black Glove would turn out to be.
The forgotten brother of Bruce Wayne.
Tonight, I'll try to prove it.
To be continued...
6 comments:
You're crazy!
that makes so much more sense than alfred.
i kept rolling my eyes when it kept getting suggested. but then i doubted myself. if it was so obvious that it could not be alfred, maybe morrison would have it be him.
then i thought better and was just happy to find out when it happens, but this idea does make some sense.
And as soon as I read that, the line from Sonic Youth's "Schizophrenia" came across my mind -
"Jesus had a twin who knew nothing of sin."
Don't know why, that's just what happened.
Morrison quotes that exact line in Doom Patrol #19.
Maybe that's why.
I've been waiting for someone to suggest this. I agree.
I'd also been wondering why no one has mentioned Morrison and Quietly's Earth Two book -- especially since one aspect of Morrison's recent DCU work is the drawing together and consolidation of ideas from his work into a Morrisonverse of shared reference points, for instance Solaris and Qwewq showing up in ASS -- and Thomas Jr. is there.
Now waiting to see what corroborative evidence you've found...
Well, now that's just creepy.
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