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...
You're crazy!
ReplyDeletethat makes so much more sense than alfred.
ReplyDeletei 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 -
ReplyDelete"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.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's why.
I've been waiting for someone to suggest this. I agree.
ReplyDeleteI'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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