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| Title |
Batman: Tenses |
| Format |
miniseries |
| Binding |
prestige |
| Date |
2003 |
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Writer(s) |
Joe Casey |
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Artist(s) |
Cully Hamner,
Dexter Vines, Rodney Ramos |
| Collects |
Tenses 1-2 |
| Storyline |
After Bruce Wayne's first
year back in Gotham City, Wayne Enterprises began making some changes.
Mass layoffs occurred, and he reminded the board of directors that it was
to continue to be modeled in his vision. After his mother died, one of the
"downsized" employees (Ted Krosby) began having visions
detailing peoples' deaths. He hooked up with a small time criminal at a
bar, they formed a team hoping to cash in on his visions. When they
targeted Krosby's former employer, Batman stopped them. Krosby was
detained and psychologically evaluated. Batman continued learning what was
best in his line of work, training in all his free time. At a meeting with
his financial advisor, Bruce was hounded for the second time by a TV
reporter wanting an interview.
The reporter ran an expose on Ted Krosby, hoping to get back at Wayne for
continuously brushing him off. Bruce visited Krosby in jail, but the man
had to be taken away when he began babbling violently. In the parking lot,
the reporter approached Bruce again - he told him how he'd also lost his
parents at a young age. When Krosby was being transported to Arkham
Asylum, his partner broke him loose. Back at his place, Krosby began
killing and eating the people in his group. He didn't stop there - in all,
348 were killed in the apartment building alone. Bruce was visited at home
by the reporter; Krosby went to see his father for the first time in 26
years. He killed him and ate him. Batman arrived and stopped him from
killing his father's wife. After he got the woman to safety, Krosby
attacked him wearing his father's skin as a "costume." Batman
defeated him, and Krosby wandered off and died in the way he'd envisioned.
Bruce finally gave the reporter an interview. |
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