Well I'll defend Grant on this one:

Batman #677 (RIP part zwei) 8 of 10

After reading this, you're actually considering a number of just impossible situations and that's good storytelling.

Is Alfred going to die? He's beat to a pulp on that last page.

Is Bruce possibly a schizo and is the Black Glove himself????

Is Thomas Wayne 1.) still alive? 2.) the Black Glove? or 3.) as he always was...one of two reasons Bruce started on this path?

You don't know! Brilliant. I concede that there's no way they'd kill Alfred or pull a mystic totem Spider-God origin type thing on Batman here. So really....I suspect Jesebel Jet as the Black Glove at this point. Heck, there's one scene in the book where she stands in the back ground with no face, all black with the clothes and red hair and a pair of batwings in the back standing out like she has horns.

It's all these delicious possibilities. The one thing I'm looking forward to are the Club of Villians. I want to see them in action. And this is simply an exercise in how to bring in new blood to the Rogue's Gallery. Unlike Slott and company in ASM, these bad guys....you want to see what they can do. ASM???? Ho-hum. No background. Just fling #### at the wall and see what sticks.

I know Morrison is a bit of an odd duck but he KNOWS how to make history work instead of rewriting it.

And for this I'm thankful to be reading an engaging Batman. Unlike Spidey, who I can only shake my head at solemnly.

Sorry guys and gals. Went off on a tangent there. Hope you see the parallels.

You saying Black Glove is really the Tangent Universe's Batman?

Honestly, one of the things I'm liking about Morrison's writing on Batman is that he is taking campy old tales - be it "Robin Dies at Dawn" or the Ten-Eyed Man - and finding a way to work them as legitimate parts of the Batman mythos. Sure, he may be spending too much time on Damien (and why does Merlyn of all people have to know Bruce's ID) but overall, I have to give him credit here.

Batman R.I.P. makes me afraid. I don't like it, and yet thats why I like it. If that makes sense, maybe you can explain it to me...

I'm calling this right now, so if it happens... I'm claiming it.

Libra is...



Renee Montoya.



That book? That's the Crime Bible. And although there's not alot of people who would know this by the sales of "Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood", at the end of that series Renee was basically seduced by the Crime Bible and ended up in control of the whole damn church, who see her as "The Faceless" that would tear down the old order and show them the way. They never did wrap that thread up.

Also, on the DC Nation page from NYCC there was a board like Rip Hunter's and one of the things on it was "Who Questions the Question?"

Well... I do. I'm throwing my lot in with The Question being Libra.

Libra is Metron.*















(*I called first! just in case! )

That would be interesting, but Libra seems WAAAAYYYY too emotional to be Metron. Metron has never shown that kind of semi-religious fervor towards anything. If Libra had to be a New God, then I'd say that it's more likely Glorious Godfrey. But if that were the case, then Final Crisis is basically a re-telling of "Legends" and THAT would piss me off to no end.


I'm still sticking with Renee, though.

Ah, so you were the other person who bought the series.

(I have to admit, I do laugh a bit everytime I hear someone comment on how Batwoman hasn't shown up at all since "52" because I'm sitting here going, "But...but...wait, no. Forgot no one else read it." )

As for the theory of Metron, it would be interesting but for those who got the Final Crisis sketchbook - I did though not by intent - they show the new designs of Metron in it and that doesn't quite speak of Libra to me.

Libra is Arthur Curry.
I called it AND claimed it first.

we could BE so lucky. Then we'd at least see Doctor Fate again. That and near his actual power level, as opposed to the 47 random losers that have worn the helmet since the first Crisis.

Otherwise, whether he is or not, I think we're being led to believe that Libra is Barry Allen.

I haven't read the Crime Bible book, but that would suck. I like how she ended up in 52.

Oh no... don't get it twisted.

Crime Bible was ####in' great. In 52, she wasn't The Question. Crime Bible was a REAL Question story, like the kind Denny O'Neal used to do.

Crime Bible WAS very good.

Libra is definatly male, and Renee does not have blue eyes. Charlie on the other hand...

But no, my money is on Libra being Cobalt Blue. I called it and claimed it.

Renee is male to some level too.