A Remembering
Here’s a Skype conversation I had with my friend John a month ago. I was sharing a couple of theories I had about Scott Snyder’s current run on Batman.
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
[5/12/12 12:29:37 PM] Miguel Santos: Yo
[5/12/12 12:35:11 PM] Miguel Santos: batman is really good this week
[5/12/12 12:35:27 PM] Miguel Santos: snyder is possibly doing a retcon
[5/12/12 12:35:30 PM] John Amor: yeah read it
[5/12/12 12:35:33 PM] John Amor: DINOSAUR
[5/12/12 12:35:38 PM] Miguel Santos: haha yeah
[5/12/12 12:35:50 PM] John Amor: retconning what?
[5/12/12 12:36:01 PM] Miguel Santos: i have 2 theories
[5/12/12 12:36:19 PM] Miguel Santos: mostly based on the jarvis pennyworth second feature
[5/12/12 12:36:34 PM] John Amor: go on
[5/12/12 12:37:04 PM] Miguel Santos: the first and most likely one is that the court of owls was responsible for the death of bruce’s parents
[5/12/12 12:37:17 PM] John Amor: yeah
[5/12/12 12:38:16 PM] Miguel Santos: my other wilder theory is that because of the age of jarvis in the story, that the little boy in the second feature isn’t bruce.
[5/12/12 12:38:42 PM] John Amor: what makes you say that?
[5/12/12 12:39:03 PM] Miguel Santos: we see jarvis taking care of the kid
[5/12/12 12:39:10 PM] Miguel Santos: he’s never refered to as bruce
[5/12/12 12:39:58 PM] Miguel Santos: and as far as batman history is concerned, alfred has been taking care of bruce ever since he was born
[5/12/12 12:40:34 PM] John Amor: that second one’s a little weird.
[5/12/12 12:40:41 PM] Miguel Santos: i know
[5/12/12 12:40:43 PM] John Amor: but im with you on the first
[5/12/12 12:41:18 PM] Miguel Santos: but, don’t we all know that it was alfred who always took care of bruce?
[5/12/12 12:41:34 PM] John Amor: in the movie, thats true.
[5/12/12 12:41:46 PM] John Amor: but we also always knew alfred’s dad was a butler for the waynes
[5/12/12 12:41:50 PM] John Amor: we just never knew when
[5/12/12 12:42:19 PM] Miguel Santos: alred was already old when bruce’s parents died
[5/12/12 12:42:26 PM] John Amor: yeah
[5/12/12 12:42:50 PM] John Amor: maybe he’s already middle aged in the backups
[5/12/12 12:43:09 PM] John Amor: jarvis is pretty old lookin
[5/12/12 12:44:05 PM] Miguel Santos: it’s a wild theory
[5/12/12 12:44:16 PM] Miguel Santos: but so far, i think it still fits
[5/12/12 12:44:28 PM] John Amor: mine is that jarvis sold the parents out
[5/12/12 12:44:35 PM] John Amor: set them up
[5/12/12 12:45:10 PM] Miguel Santos: but wouldn’t it be interesting to find out that bruce had an older brother?
[5/12/12 12:45:33 PM] Miguel Santos: crazier things have been written in the batman mythos
[5/12/12 12:46:09 PM] John Amor: Lincoln. March.
[5/12/12 12:46:15 PM] John Amor: (looks like him)
[5/12/12 12:46:17 PM] John Amor: lol
[5/12/12 12:46:23 PM] Miguel Santos: lol
[5/12/12 12:46:30 PM] Miguel Santos: too bad he’s dead now
[5/12/12 12:46:43 PM] Miguel Santos: that thread would’ve gone no where
[5/12/12 12:47:53 PM] Miguel Santos: isn’t jarvis’ (the avengers butler) father’s name alfred?
[5/12/12 12:48:01 PM] John Amor: yeah
[5/12/12 12:48:04 PM] Miguel Santos: cool
[5/12/12 12:48:43 PM] John Amor: it doesnt make sense though
[5/12/12 12:48:55 PM] John Amor: why would the owls target jarvis pennyworth in the first place?
[5/12/12 12:49:12 PM] John Amor: he’s not a hotham “architect”
[5/12/12 12:49:15 PM] John Amor: *gotham
[5/12/12 12:49:48 PM] Miguel Santos: what if the court uses jarvis to kidnap bruce’s kuya
[5/12/12 12:49:49 PM] Miguel Santos: ?
[5/12/12 12:50:03 PM] Miguel Santos: dun dun duuuuunnnn
[5/12/12 12:50:54 PM] Miguel Santos: and all this time bruce’s kuya has been part of the court…
[5/12/12 12:51:00 PM] Miguel Santos: DUN DUN DUUUUUUNNNNNNN
[5/12/12 12:51:04 PM] John Amor: kuya
[5/12/12 12:51:05 PM] John Amor: lol
[5/12/12 12:51:47 PM] John Amor: it wouldnt make sense that bruce doesnt know about an older brother though. his parents die when he’s 10. they would have told him.
[5/12/12 12:52:06 PM] Miguel Santos: unless they kept it secret
[5/12/12 12:52:45 PM] Miguel Santos: my mom never told me that i was supposed to have an older brother until i was in high school
[5/12/12 12:53:05 PM] John Amor: how come?
[5/12/12 12:53:18 PM] Miguel Santos: my parents like to keep secrets
[5/12/12 12:53:29 PM] John Amor: well
[5/12/12 12:53:34 PM] John Amor: i guess we’ll see
[5/12/12 12:53:44 PM] John Amor: it’s a little far fetched for me right now
[5/12/12 12:53:46 PM] Miguel Santos: KUYA BRUCE
And then came…
It turns out that we were really onto something there. Now that Batman #10 is out, I have a few answers:
1.) That my first theory about the Court of Owls having something to do with the death of Bruce’s parents (the more likely one) was confirmed wrong according to one of the characters from Batman #10.
2.) I wasn’t too far off with my second theory. I was wrong about the little boy in the Batman #9 second feature not being Bruce and my deduction about Jarvis Pennyworth’s age went nowhere, but still, my wildest theory turned out to be ridiculously spot on. Even John’s playful shot at a guess of who it was turned out to be right on the money.
Reading Batman #10, I had almost forgotten about the conversation above, but it slowly came creeping back as the story went along. It was still surprising when the reveal came, and I have to say how masterfully it was executed.
What Scott Snyder is doing with Batman now is nothing short of mind-blowing.
