So... yeah. We all knew it was him.
>>70605416
literally who
>>70605416
nigga what explain what happens.
and is that a dead cluemaster?
so its owlman who plotted it and cluemaster who had the funding?
makes sense
>>70605432
Thank god.
Massani is going to be pissed it isn't Dr. Hurt.
>not Hurt
And into the trash it goes.
>>70605463
what the fuck,owlman?I thought he was dead
>>70605416
>Next issue
>Earth-3 Owlman shanks Thomas jr.
>>70605478
Massani was always wrong. that club of villains shit was just a red herring. like they would spoil the reveal as early as issue 11 pfft yeah right dude had fucking dust in his brain. Hell, Riddler's clues and choice of location in issue 39 or 40 basically gave it the fuck away. you'd have to be a literal idiot not to get it
>>70605463
Radditz?
we're gonna need a court of owls storytime soon to see how well the story holds up
>>70605484
It was never going to be Hurt. All the fucking clues pointed to Lincoln March.
i assumed they were going to forget about bruce's lost brother once injustice owlman came through the pandora's box.
>>70605572
Hell, I'd say the whole nu52 Bats run would be good for Endgame, well, ending.
This guy is effectively immortal since he took that serum from the Court. He probably has a lot of it, too, given that he poisoned a whole lot of them and probably raided their labs.
By Endgame, Batman is tired of immortal enemies. Too bad the Joker has his own thing going (and probably from the same source, given what Crazy Quilt said).
>>70605416
Always seemed pretty obvious, especially since the riddler hint about the echo.
>>70605678
Also the use of Willowood Orphanage for a villain hideout.
>>70605564
Basically
His costume looks better when Capullo draws it.
Still havent read court of Owls but the brother thing is canon to the main earth too?
>>70605792
It's left ambiguous as to whether he's really his brother.
>>70605775
The Owl mask looks like a stupid kind of hat in OP's pic.
>>70605792
It's not clear whether he really is Bruce's brother or just deluded. The Court raised him. But he does look a lot like Bruce.
>>70605622
well endgame isn't the end of snyder's run
dude is on til #50 and after that he doesn't know
said his next story about the robo-bats bunny is a bunch of small stories leading up to something with a new villain
I really hope that after meeting his murderous older brother from another dimension, Bruce won't waste time going "IT CAN"T BE" about his murderous younger brother from this dimension.
A pity it's just this guy though, and not Double Owlman with special guest star Doctor Hurt.
>>70605463
>From the other side of the mirror
Getting so fucking sick of mirrors.
>>70605416
I am kinda happy we got a returning villain out of the court of owls though. More villains instead of the "it was the riddler/joker" all this time.
Feels kinda hushy though.
>>70605850
I guess it really depends on whether Tynion or Snyder wrote the dialogue. If it's Snyder, that will 100% be his reaction because that is simply how he writes Bruce reacting to villain reveals.
>>70605850
Well, Eternal is getting a sequel. I'd like to see Owlman vs Owlman.
You know, i'd be totally okay with this character actually being Bruce's brother. I actually liked the idea of Earth-One Batman having a (dead) brother who was crazy and all. Fucking Deadman, guys.
>>70605876
The Court themselves have been in Endgame. It's possible that Joker's "immortality" is coming from the same stuff they make their regenerative compound from.
>>70605876
Well yeah, in case you hadn't noticed, the idea behind New 52's Batman so far has just been to rehash prereboot stories for new readers but slightly disguised/retooled so that old readers won't be completely turned off. Eternal's no different. Also casuals fucking love Hush/Long Halloween/Knightfall, so any excuse to revisit the ol' "show off the entire rogues gallery while building up to the confrontation with the mastermind" is a-ok with them.
>>70605896
snyder doesn't even write eternal he was just involved with the bare plot goddamn people can't get this through their head
>>70605926
Yeah, i know about the court itself appearing again but i was talking about "Owlman" reappearing out of it again and being used by other writers.
>>70605937
Not precisely casual but I'm a sucker for these storylines, I dont really think they are bad but based on what /co/ says, I comsider them a guilty pleasure.
>>70605937
Hey, Knightfall is awesome. Just a little too over extended in the AzBat part.
>>70605841
i hope he's not really related
>>70606034
Why not?
>>70606020
Not saying any of those are bad - the only one I think of those is bad is Hush and maybe Eternal, I'll have to reread it in one go once it's all over - just that they're exactly the kind of comic geared toward casual fans that DC wants to target this book toward.
>>70606057
i don't like bruce having a brother
be honest how many of you actually read eternal week to week?
I did. It reminded me a lot of my favorite era of bat-stories i.e. the brubaker/rucka stuff and even brought back some stuff from that era.
snyder said eternal year two is happening and is very robin-centric to celebrate robins 75th anniversary or something like that
>>70606071
No worse than him having a biological son. Because he was raped. By a woman he'd willingly have sex with.
>>70606057
Personally I hate the "long lost sibling you never knew about shows up when you're an adult!" trope so much.
>>70605416
So is Lincoln March actually Thomas Wayne Jr., is he lying/insane, or is it ambiguous?
>>70606087
Been reading it every week, collected the first trade, writing reviews for each issue...
Damian is definitely going to be in the second Eternal. But I'd be interested in knowing what he was doing during the first one, since it seems like his resurrection took place BEFORE Eternal.
>>70606087
I did, only jumping some bbut generally as soon as the dl links were available I'd download it, just because i cant buyit in my country.
>>70606099
But Bruce having an autistic bother is nothing new.
>>70606087
There were stretches of it I enjoyed and stretches of it that I found unbearable. I marathoned the first ~25 issues then started reading weekly from there. I enjoyed it much more when I was reading it all at once - though I also think the story was stronger in the beginning since it felt like this last third was mostly filler just to make it to the magic 52 number. I did enjoy having a story to look forward to every week, though, even if it underwhelmed some weeks. I'll come back for year two.
>>70606112
Ambiguous. There technically was a second Wayne child that supposedly died in a miscarriage because of an accident... that happened on the corner of Lincoln and March.
The Court of Owls raised the sickly Lincoln March after the Willowwood Orphanage went into the crapper (the Waynes had funded it and their deaths caused it to deteriorate) and kept telling him he was the ignored, cast off Wayne son who was robbed of what he was owed, his lineage, his fortune. He grew up believing that. Whether or not it's true is up to the reader.
He certainly believes so. It's why he allowed himself to be "killed" as a loose end of the Court's, but took the regenerative compound, poisoned a lot of the Court higher ups, and confronted Bruce, but was lost in the battle.
>>70605621
wait so theres two owlmen in the DC universe now?
>>70606133
Yeah, this last part has been stretched out way too much, even if there are good moments.
I mean, anybody paying attention KNEW it was Lincoln March, but they kept feeding us all these fucking red herrings and it was getting annoying.
Like anybody would believe it was actually Cluemaster the whole time.
>>70606176
one is from Earth 3
Is this the same story where Joker is some immortal spirit or something? How'd it get to this?
>>70606176
Snyder probably didn't know Geoff Johns was planning to revive the old Crime Syndicate when he did the Court of Owls storyline. It was way before even Trinity War.
>>70606182
I was hoping it was clue. I mean what better way to elevate a d-lister?
>>70606192
This is Batman Eternal.
The Joker story is in Batman.
>>70605416
Futures End is even more of a wtf. Also firmly establishes where in the timeline earth 2 is taking place.
Owl Man of Earth-3 is still Thomas Wayne Jr. meaning the Court of Owls equivalent in Earth-3 has Bruce
>>70606195
Well, there's an ongoing theme of "the forgotten and ignored". Falcone, The Lion, Julia Pennyworth, Hush, the D-lister squad, Deacon Blackfire... people who've been cast aside.
It makes sense that Lincoln March was behind this all BECAUSE of the other characters involved. March wants Bruce to see what happens when you forget.
just read the issue. it was cluemaster's plan. owlman is just kinda of a last minute showup unless some shit gets revealed next issue
>>70606295
>>70606299
>>70606306
WHOthe fuck didn't know this, at least back to the Riddler issue?
>>70606311
selina's importance to the story ended like ten issues ago
>>70606323
>>70606327
hahaha time for villain exposition dump nigga
>>70606246
Dr. Hurt was buried in Bruce's yard, forgotten and ignored by all future writers.
>>70606337
>>70606343
>>70606355
>>70606342
shouldn't it be that way? would you want anyone other than Morrison writing him?
>>70606366
I hope Bard becomes a regular cast member in the main books
>>70606366
Snyder's already tried his hand at being Morrison repeatedly, so why not go all the way and botch that shit too?
>>70606377
So, what's this all have to do with Gordon killing the guy he was chasing down in issue one?
>>70606387
It's right fucking there in >>70606343
>>70606384
>>70606382
I don't see it other than they both have heavy-handed symbolism and metaphors that reek of pretension
>>70606395
Steph, you had one goddamn job
>>70606403
>>70606382
Except Snyder's stories aren't pretentious meta shit like Morrison's.
"hurf durf, final crisis is a story about stories!"
How about writing a story about BATMAN and not New God of Time Batdeity, you fucking Scottish cunt?
>>70606412
>>70606418
haha REKT
>>70606416
>not liking Final Crisis
>>70606428
last page is ops image and I can't post a duplicate file
>>70605416
Haven't been reading is this Earth 0 Thomas or Earth 3 Thomas?
>>70606446
earth-0 the costumes are different entirely retard
>>70606436
I like the art. The story is just a random mess of gobbeldy-guk and meta crap.
Shutting down the internet, the Anti-Life Equation being an actual equation, Batman using a gun at Darkseid, that bullshit 3D comic with Superman and the vampire Monitor... garbage. Well-drawn garbage, but garbage.
>>70606454
Don't remember Earth 0 costume and who says Earth 3 has to always wear the same costume?
>>70605416
So unbelievably lame.
>>70606446
It's New 52, Prime Earth continuity Thomas Jr, Lincoln March, from Snyder's Court of Owls storyline.
Geoff Johns has dibs on Earth 3 Owlman, who's got some kind of back room deal going on with Luthor.
>>70606393
lol sorry dude I had no interest in start reading from issue 2 & I wasn't going to read issue 51.
>>70606355
Well I'm glad that they used the monologue trope to give Bruce to escape. God forbid Batman writers who can literally do nothing wrong try something interesting
>>70606395
Who the fuck is this femblrina? New robin?
>>70605841
>>70606034
I think he is his Brother. The Olwman of Earth 3 is Thomas Wayne Junior after all
>it's Lame-Ass Lincoln
>not based Hurt
>>70606416
>Except Snyder's stories aren't pretentious meta shit like Morrison's.
Clearly you haven't read Death of the Family or Endgame.
>>70606550
Never liked Dr. Hurt.
"I'm your father!"
"No you aren't."
"Yeah, I know. I'm the Devil!"
"No."
"... yeah... I know... but... uh... OHFUCKBANANAPEEL"
>>70606462
>that bullshit 3D comic with Superman and the vampire Monitor... garbage
This has to be a troll.
>>70606582
Those are written like regular stories, though, and not full of beat poetry dialogue and obscure Silver Age references. Well, mostly.
>It's Owlman
Whats Owlman? It looks like Cluemaster set everything up and Lincoln just showed up at the end for a laugh.
>>70606676
Cluemaster has always been full of shit.
>>70606337
>ur human, bruce. ur just like us
Ugh
So Not-Owlman was the big bad like everyone thought.
>>70606676
My dad works at comics and the next issue is going to be Owlman monologue-ing about how he pulled the strings behind Cluemaster and the B-lister villains to set everything in motion for this one pivotal confrontation that will *CHANGE EVERYTHING FOREVER* just long enough for batfam to save Bruce or for deus ex batmanicha to save the day again
