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Ugh, for two reasons.

1: Dear Marvel, please stop making "mysterious" one word teasers for books/events. It's getting old now.

2: Awesome, so Slott can kill Miles Morales and replace him with, i dunno, Taskmaster or something. Sounds rad.

Hell yes Mal Reynolds!

The only problem I had with this issue is it felt like Slott was having a little too much fun with the 2099 slang. "jammit", "son of a glitch", and "shocking" being in what felt like every other line of 2099 dialogue started to rub me a little raw. Maybe it's an odd thing to complain about, but all things in moderation. Including future slang.

You realize his entire point was originally to be a parody of the 'badass' character type, right? It's just what the cliche badass was in the late 80s/early 90s and what it is now are totally different animals.

I would be totally okay with this being the way to reintegrate DickBats into the new 52.

Well, now that we know you were absolutely spot-on (great work, there, and good work on DC's part planting all the hints in a coherent enough way that it could be pieced together.), we can start theorizing on who their prisoner is, hahahaha.

I'm almost half sorta hoping for Earth 3 Joker. Or Jokester, or whatever they'd call him in the N52.

Most definitely. They're older, more level headed, more pre-new-52-ish versions of Bats and Supes. I love the moment of them shutting their younger selves up because 'the grownups are talking'. Plus, I really dig Earth 2 Batman's costume, and have since DCnU's Earth 2 was first revealed.

Double posting makes me feel like a total scumbag, just to make that clear.

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Eventually I'm going to start writing what all this art has to do with, but my own writing, much like my own art, keeps being not-quite-there as far as my personal standards go. Still, here's these. They're the first two in a set that will probably be of about five or six.

I don't even... wat.

I had that consideration a while after I posted my initial comment, and yeah, it makes sense. Ra's is harvesting Lazarus blood, so it would make sense for him to grave rob Talia and Damian with the intent of bringing them back from the dead. Maybe he intends to use Damian to lead the Sons of Batman. Too bad Grant sort of just left that wide open.