![]() ![]() Alfred, who had a good friend die two weeks earlier while living at Gotham Gardens, offers to go undercover as a new resident in an effort to find the true cause of the recent deaths. The Gotham Gardens assisted living facility has an uptick in deaths due to “natural causes,” which started around the same time as the Batman villain the Ventriloquist (also known as Arnold Wesker) took up residency. Set years in the past, the story “Some Things Remain” from Urban Legends #16 sees Alfred Pennyworth get in on the action to investigate a case of his own. I don't get it.Batman: Urban Legends is a monthly anthology series containing various stories about members of the Bat-Family and other Batman-adjacent characters. He blasted these out after his message went viral. What kind of demented son of a bitch does this to a person? Pete always liked to work out late at night, when no one else was around. ![]() Oh, you don't wanna talk about rats, huh? Maybe we can talk about what they did to my partner's face. Why don't you start harmonizing? There's only one problem with your little scenario, okay? I ain't no rat! You got any idea what Carmine Falcone would do to me if he heard this kind of talk? You must know about him.īoy, you guys are a hell of a duet here. We know she worked for you at the 44 Below.īut she got too close, right? Found out from Mitchell that you were the rat, so you killed her. They wanted to take over the drops business, too, but they needed a minor-league mope like you to run it. His drops operation.īut the cops, the city officials, the mayor, the D.A., they got greedy, right? Wasn't enough, a big, career-making bust. So you gave up a bigger fish to save your ass. They were gonna shut you down, put you away. [on a tablet, Batman enters the URL "Maybe it was a mistake. ![]() World's greatest detectives! Am I the only one here who knows the difference between "el" and "la"? Jesus! No habla espanol, fellas?ĭo me a favor, shithead, shut up! You think he made a mistake?Ī rat with wings? You know what that sounds like to me? A friggin' bat! Huh? You ever think of that? What, is this Riddler stupid or something? Jesus! Look at you two. Yeah! It's, like, the worst Spanish I ever heard. That's not you? The symbols in the maze, right here. Let's finish this.Ĭross that line, you'll become just like him. He's been the mayor for the last 20 years.Ĭome on, Vengeance. You think this goddamn election matters? Falcone's the mayor. He'd rat out his drops operation, make the careers of everybody that went after him, and then install them all as his puppets. So he orchestrated a play to take Maroni down big. A huge charitable fund with no oversight. It was perfect for making bribes, laundering money. After Thomas Wayne died, they all went after it like vultures. maybe we're not so different after all.įalcone is the rat? Falcone works for you guys? The mayor? The D.A.? He owes me that money.Īh, it's all right. Anyway, social services came to take me away, and he didn't say a thing. When I was seven, my mother was murdered. Then one night, my mother told me who he was. And I could never understand why he looked at me the way he did. I hid out in the dressing room while she worked. She used to take me there when I was a little girl. No! I want to know why a guy like Falcone would owe you anything.īecause he's my father! My mother worked at the 44 Below. You don't know what the hell you're talking about. What'd you have to do to set up that score? How close did you have to get to Penguin? To Falcone? We've spent our lives in this wretched place, SUFFERING! Wondering, "Why us?" Now they will spend their last moments wondering, "Why them?"Ĭompromising yourself for money. False promises of renewal? CHANGE? We'll give them real, real change now. The pigs will have me in their custody, but that's okay. Now, when the time arrives, I will already be unmasked. Those who are not washed away will race through the streets in terror.Īs breaking news hits higher ground in Gotham Square Garden, celebrations will turn to panic as the venue becomes the city's shelter of last resort. When the vans blow, the flooding will happen so fast, evacuation will not be an option. I've parked seven vans all along the city seawall. Its corruption, its perversion masquerading under the guise of renewal. ![]() But we know the truth, don't we? You've seen Gotham's true face now. what this community has meant to me these weeks, these months, let's just say none of us. I just want to say this will be my last post for a little while, and, uh. Uh, thanks for all the comments, and, uh, a special thanks to everyone for the tips on detonators. ![]()
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