Heavenside 1
The story so far... reconsidering issues 1-12.
A few notes on rereading the previous issues:
#1 - Did Reinhardt arrange death of DJ Amun? How?
(from #8, 'I arranged for him to have a little meeting with his conscience, that's all' - but he presumably wanted the result of that meeting to be DJ Amun going away enough for DS to take control of the radio channel. (But then again, he could have just hijacked it...))
1925 - which 'frightening events'?
#2 - Did The Event strip several Reinhardt-versions out of the timelines, or at least make Reinhardt-DS aware of them?
Who is the driver of the car that picks them up from the nightclub - are there any other Scartop staff?
Backmatter - Catastrophe Books 'What street is it located on? Who have you seen there?'
(Mirror-universe - traffic on wrong side of road for US? And therefore Mirror-Reinhardt is the 'real' one?)
#3 Whose hand-as-glove is Albert Cannon wearing?
I'm beginning to suspect that the Ur-text for Reinhardt's origin isn't (just) Batman - it's Citizen Kane.
Kane inherits great wealth (Wayne loses parents & does same).
Guardian (Albert Cannon = Walter Parks Thatcher) fails to influence Kane positively, Kane/Reinhardt rebels (Alfred, in contrast, does positively influence Wayne).
Kane wanders the world, buys into media empire... Reinhardt takes over a radio station.
(Later on, Kane sets out a Declaration of Principles, but he fails to live up to them...)
(And of course the third rich-man-affected-by-childhood-trauma archetype we could compare DS to is Mason Lang...)
Main subtext of Kane is the unknowability of public figures - always seen in flashback & recollections. May be why first half of Book 2 moves the focus away from DS directly...
Is The Darkening Sky Reinhardt's Rosebud??
#4 - Who did Max Cale get turned by, what did he reveal?
#5 - 'Things that exist in your head are deceptive by nature'.
How does DS know what Reinhardt-in-jail told Preston Stoker about Tulpas?
#8 - DS was able to thwart Preston Stoker's attempt to incarcerate him because "I'd already unlocked the code in The Darkening Sky" - Tulpa-creation? Access to parallel versions of himself?
I still think part of the Plan is to turn Sing into DS's nemesis - like Mister Glass in Unbreakable. What use is a supervillain with no superhero to oppose him?
#9 - Woman at station in St. Theresa's mask watching Sarah Berlin arrive has blue eyes. Nurse?
#11 - 'Chinese-British refugees from the flooding over there way back when' - reference to Freakangels? Probably not, but a lovely crossover idea!
#1 - Did Reinhardt arrange death of DJ Amun? How?
(from #8, 'I arranged for him to have a little meeting with his conscience, that's all' - but he presumably wanted the result of that meeting to be DJ Amun going away enough for DS to take control of the radio channel. (But then again, he could have just hijacked it...))
1925 - which 'frightening events'?
#2 - Did The Event strip several Reinhardt-versions out of the timelines, or at least make Reinhardt-DS aware of them?
Who is the driver of the car that picks them up from the nightclub - are there any other Scartop staff?
Backmatter - Catastrophe Books 'What street is it located on? Who have you seen there?'
(Mirror-universe - traffic on wrong side of road for US? And therefore Mirror-Reinhardt is the 'real' one?)
#3 Whose hand-as-glove is Albert Cannon wearing?
I'm beginning to suspect that the Ur-text for Reinhardt's origin isn't (just) Batman - it's Citizen Kane.
Kane inherits great wealth (Wayne loses parents & does same).
Guardian (Albert Cannon = Walter Parks Thatcher) fails to influence Kane positively, Kane/Reinhardt rebels (Alfred, in contrast, does positively influence Wayne).
Kane wanders the world, buys into media empire... Reinhardt takes over a radio station.
(Later on, Kane sets out a Declaration of Principles, but he fails to live up to them...)
(And of course the third rich-man-affected-by-childhood-trauma archetype we could compare DS to is Mason Lang...)
Main subtext of Kane is the unknowability of public figures - always seen in flashback & recollections. May be why first half of Book 2 moves the focus away from DS directly...
Is The Darkening Sky Reinhardt's Rosebud??
#4 - Who did Max Cale get turned by, what did he reveal?
#5 - 'Things that exist in your head are deceptive by nature'.
How does DS know what Reinhardt-in-jail told Preston Stoker about Tulpas?
#8 - DS was able to thwart Preston Stoker's attempt to incarcerate him because "I'd already unlocked the code in The Darkening Sky" - Tulpa-creation? Access to parallel versions of himself?
I still think part of the Plan is to turn Sing into DS's nemesis - like Mister Glass in Unbreakable. What use is a supervillain with no superhero to oppose him?
#9 - Woman at station in St. Theresa's mask watching Sarah Berlin arrive has blue eyes. Nurse?
#11 - 'Chinese-British refugees from the flooding over there way back when' - reference to Freakangels? Probably not, but a lovely crossover idea!
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