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the more I think about it, the alfred-as-outsider being the black glove makes more sense. it was alfred who prompted burce to go to london where he met jezebel, it was alfred who started poking holes in bruce's persona, it was alfred who transcribes the black casebooks, and mysteriously loses one of them. alfred who insists that bruce record everything that happens to him so he can read it. presumably these black casebooks would contain any incidents of alfred turning into a pasty white other-dimensional monster, which bruce more than likely doesn't remember at this stage, and wouldn't unless he read it again.
there's too many intimations of the supernatural/alien/who knows what for everything to be explainable otherwise, so something like this fits, especially if you tie it back to some seedy occult history of the wayne family and friends.
on a related note, did anyone notice the pictures of who I presume are marsha lamarr, mangrove pierce and john mayhew in this issue? pierce could very easily be a younger simon hurt. I'm betting on it at this stage. I'm even willing to go so far as to say that Lamarr may be an earlier form of jezebel jet. This "I feel like I've known you my whole life" thing is a bit ham fisted unless there's some reason why bruce might actually feel that way. Recognizing a friend of the family from childhood is one explanation. The fact their whole relationship seems carefully orchestrated to strike at the flaws in bruce's personality makes me wonder.
I'm expecting batman to hit bottom in short order, with his reputation in shambles, his mind shattered, the cave in ruins, alfred and jezebel turned on him, his whole life thrown into question, teetering on the edge of oblivion.
...then grant will have him drop into nirvikalpa samadhi, snap out of it, and he'll dust himself off, do the "almost went totally insane...HH," and kick everyone's ass.
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