Month: April 2013

Originally published July 24, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1288

“The TruBatman Show, Part 3 (Conclusion)”

He sits before me, looking at me with an assortment of emotions tumbling through him. I was sure of that. How could he not be feeling shock, confusion, anger, denial—every possible human emotion? Were I human, I could likely relate more closely to it.

Batman was surrounded by all his greatest foes and greatest friends. They were mingling with disconcerting informality, and he had an insane impulse to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

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Editor’s note: Part 1 of this story was published on this site December 28 and can be found here. We’re getting back to the regular schedule of posting classic BID columns. Part 3 (of 3) will appear on Monday.

Originally published July 17, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1287

“The TruBatman Show, Part 2”

The arctic wasteland stretched before him.

Bruce Wayne drew the white camouflage more tightly around himself, approaching the entrance he knew was waiting for him. He’d been there before, any number of times, but it had always been under carefully controlled circumstances. It had never been like this, never in some sort of skulking manner. And never, ever, under a circumstance where he felt that he could trust no one.

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