Comic #4020: adopt-the-darkness
Description
Here's the transcription of the comic:
Panel 1:
- Batman: "You merely adopted the dark. I was born to it."
Panel 2:
- Villain: "When my mother lifted me from the nurse's trembling grip… she looked at my feet."
Panel 3:
- Villain: "Where she should've seen five squishy pink toes… she saw…"
- Text in a thought bubble: "A tube sock…"
Panel 4:
- Villain: "Milk white."
- Text (below): "Gold Toed."
- Text (at the side): "Encased in the brownest of brown sandals!"
Panel 5:
- Villain: "I was cast out. Made a pariah. Society scorns me, Bruce."
Panel 6:
- Villain: "My deformity is so much more than a curse. The increased comfort and dryness allow me to focus. To think. To piece together the scraps that others miss."
Panel 7:
- Villain: "All right! You win! You've killed the Batman!"
Panel 8:
- Villain: "Killed? Oh, Bruce. Oh, no no no! I don't plan to kill you…"
- Villain: "I plan to make you…"
- Villain: "…like me!"
Panel 9:
- Batgirl: "No! No!"
Panel 10:
- Text: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Panel 11:
- Scene showing a city skyline.
Panel 12:
- Batman: "Later…"
- Batman: "Alfred?"
Panel 13:
- Batman: "You know, I was against it at first, but these feel great. I just don't know what I was worried about, Alfred."
Panel 14:
- Scene showing Alfred lying on the ground.
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