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[Trick Question]

pinderpanda

DANGER! DANGER! THIS IS A SPOILER THREAD AND, OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, SHOULD BE TREATED AS COMPLETELY RADIOACTIVE BY ANYONE YET TO READ FINAL CRISIS#6

So you're saying..we should read this before FC...or..maybe heat burritos over it...

maybe drop it on some ter'rists?

[Pinderpanda 600]

Trick Question

maybe drop it on some ter'rists?

I think that's Miller's Batman policy. 3nodding

[Trick Question]

pinderpanda

Trick Question

maybe drop it on some ter'rists?

I think that's Miller's Batman policy. 3nodding

so, you're saying Darkseid is the new batman?
isn't that how it works?
it's like "on a pale horse" (PA bookness!)or something..

[Tenzil Kem]

If I am bitten by this thread, what superpowers will I receive?

[Pinderpanda 600]

The power to organically spin chronologies. Though that might just be in the movie version of the thread.

[Trick Question]

Hey! that;s what people do NOW...
except they call it "the end to digestion"

[Pinderpanda 600]

Okay, okay. What else have we got?
The ability to stick to things where most others would have dropped off? (Favourite writers mostly)

[Trick Question]

let's see if I can get this out with a straight face...

The ability to know when something bad is going to happen, or when something is a bad idea?

OH..and prevent/avoid it

[Pinderpanda 600]

rofl

(Curse you for reducing me to the one-emoticon-post.)

[Ricochet Rita]

pinderpanda

rofl

(Curse you for reducing me to the one-emoticon-post.)

heart

[Master Bruce Wayne]

Now that your Third Man theory has been fulfilled, I have to read it. *Shakes fist.*

[Lord Fates]

Now the only question left is how seriously do we think people will take Bats in FC#6.

Its a last page splash people, thats the oldest and most-surest-to-be-a trick in book!

[Master Bruce Wayne]

pinderpanda

The Black Glove is something which might as well be the Devil.

For some reason I never recognize the Devil in Morrison's work. I didn't see The Black Glove as such until I read your analysis that pegged him as such, and I never recognized the Devil in The Invisibles until I read Anarchy for the Masses. What deep philosophical insight into my psyche does this reveal?

[Pinderpanda 600]

Master Bruce Wayne

Now that your Third Man theory has been fulfilled, I have to read it. *Shakes fist.*

Dunno, if it's been fulfilled.
It's just that other people have noticed it and FabNic isn't denying it.

Master Bruce Wayne

What deep philosophical insight into my psyche does this reveal?

Just that you need to run a Satan-O-Meter over your friends and collegues pronto. Just to check he's not sneaking past you anywhere else.

[Pinderpanda 600]

The obvious update.
I have resisted the urge to speculate that, if Batman's really trapped inside a false and degraded version of his life, that might give us an in-continuity explanation for All-Star Batman. twisted


What was the 'Final Fate of the Batman'?

With Darkseid fully incarnate, and destroying the universe with the mere weight of his unsustainably godly presence, Batman confronted him beneath the ruins of Blüdhaven.

In a scene which parallels and inverts Shilo Norman's confrontation with Darkseid from Seven Soldiers #1, Batman shot Darkseid with the god-killing bullet which came into his possession while investigating the death of Orion.

Darkseid's last act was to direct his Omega Beams at Batman. They made contact, leaving Bruce a charred and ruined corpse with burnt-out eyeballs.

But it's not all bad news.

Darkseid's last words were, "Can you outrace the Omega Sanction? The death that is life!"

'The Omega Sanction' was introduced in Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #4 where it's described as "The ultimate hell...trapped in an endless succession of synthetic lives [...] Each new existence more degraded than the last. More hopeless. More meaningless. Neverending."

That "death that is life" is presumably where Bruce Wayne is right now.

And Shilo Norman has already shown us that it can be escaped.

One scene of particular relevance from Mister Miracle #4 is the exact moment at which Shilo first began to realise he was trapped inside a synthetic life; It was while looking at the Bat Symbol.