MORRISON BATM-ANNOTATIONS: RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE PART I

BATMAN VS ROBIN

Batman and Robin #10 - "The Haunting of Wayne Manor"

• Damian leads a board meeting to confront the financial irregularities in Wayne Enterprises.
• Charity fund for railroad victims set up in Thomas Wayne's memory, donations have been on steady increase.
• Finance bro Treadwell combative...
• All of the prior Black Glove members have been killed except for Texan businessman.
• Russian general who's neck got snapped found inside alligator.
• Oberon Sexton thinks Domino Killer is targeting Bruce Wayne, trying to kill Black Glove members, believes that Wayne was member along with Jezebel Jet...
• Dick, Damian, and Alfred do mystery hunting in abandoned Wayne Manor.
• No power post Sombrero booby-traps.
• JLA thinks Bats displaced by Darkseid Omega Effect, Tim thinks clues left in past.
• Wayne Manor exists for over 200 years, cave system beneath in use since Stone Age.
• WAYNE PATRIARCHS
• Mordecai
• Black Sheep Thomas
• Darius
• Joshua
• Solomon
• Alan
• Kenneth
• Patrick
• Silas
• Thomas
• Black Thomas led devil worshippers in 1760's, bat demon of Miagani tribe, bloody bargains...
• History of Gotham with Bat Gods, Bat Tribes, Bat Devils...
• Mordecai = Bruce?
• What is the book in Mordecai's hand...
• Casket in Joshua's hands...
• Constellation of Orion over burning ships, Orion over fire...
• Could Bruce be in the present... changed...
• El Penitente wanted Sexton to kill Dick Grayson...
• Mexican Train, 99 Fiends, 3rd hierarchy...
• Sweet Belial, Duke Zepar...
• Mordecai portrait rediscovered in 1800's, doesn't fit with genealogy...
• Joshua & Solomon were conductors on Underground railroad network...
• Three roses, three stars on Orion's belt, symbols of the Hunter hang over the fireplace...
• Talia machinations, she didn't even meet Damian until he was eight!?!?
• Secret passage not on Wayne Manor layout, knight armor with rose + bat...
• Damian new spine = motor control!?!
• Talia's executioner...
• Another secret Bat-Cave, candelabras, Batman symbol, writing of Barbatos and Thomas on walls...
• Alfred discovers hidden Corpse Road in Wayne cemetery along with lost Garden of Death...
• Damian and Oberon Sexton!

Return of Bruce Wayne #1 - "Shadow on Stone"

• Bruce in the Stone Age!
• Man, Boy, Surly, Giant, Joker.
• Lois Lane Rocketship from Final Crisis.
• Old Man Anthro dead from FC #7, cave drawings in wall of Metron's symbol and the Trinity logos
• Primordial Gotham, things happen here that can't happen anywhere else...
• Shining Ones = New Gods.
• Old Man's story of meeting Metron, gaining fire and knowledge.
• Deer people, Blood Mob.
• When Shining Ones comes it's the All-Over...
• Head scrambled from Omega Sanction, Bat-Signal and Superman cape in trunk of Lois-shuttle
• Necklace, White Fawn, passed from man to boy to man...
• Morrison's starting to set up the pearl-necklace iconography for Boy -- his dad's clutching it, and he's watching his father (and family) die.
• Vandal Savage, chief who scares death, so he got his immortality already?
• Giant Bat-Beast, skinned and killed by Savage...
• Fever dreams of Bat: night, terror, superstitious, omen, creature, black, terrible, bat, disguise, man, bat...
• Deer Tribe becomes Bat-People, Boy becomes primordial Robin.
• Solar eclipse looks exactly like symbol of Orion's helmet!
• Boy escapes but Bruce is gone...
• Supes, Hal, Booster, and Rip Hunter arrive in Stone Age, they are looking for Bruce; tracking Omega radiation.
• Batman has no memory, but if he makes it back to the 21st century everyone dies...
• Bruce awakens in Puritan times, speech improves.
• Girl, calls him Master Demon.
• Dead man in water...
• Leviathan in the water, she refers to as the horse he rode in on?
• Time travel across the history of Gotham!

Batman and Robin #11 - "Boneyard"

• Doctor Hurt is back!
• So he took the guise of El Penitente to absolve himself from sin, a clean slate to commit more atrocity. Does Hurt believe in God? If he's the Devil... does he care?
• Dark Twin, Double You, claim what is rightfully his...
• Paint in secret Bat-Cave is new, within a year...
• Secret rail-way, the Corpse Road! Same location in Joshua Wayne portrait...
• 99 Fiends have come to the Wayne Cemetery.
• Damian's new spine is remote controlled, Talia hires Deathstroke to pilot and kill Dick!
• Stalactite in shape of Barbatos, devil bat of Miagani summoned by Black Thomas in 1765.
• Energy source blocks out transmission to Alfred, some kind of light ahead...
• Naeberius can sense Barbatos waking beneath the ground...
• Alan Wayne's crypt, center piece of Garden of Death...
• Domino found in Naeberius's lapel, Sexton thinks they were sent by the Killer.
• Damian knows Sexton's accent is fake, thinks that he's the time displaced Bruce Wayne?!?!
• Why did the Fiends come to Alan Wayne's crypt? Looking for something long buried...
• Dick emerges, ravaged, we don't know why, but he has the same casket in the Joshua portrait!

Return of Bruce Wayne #2 - "Until the End of Time"

• Leviathan dragon, sea monster...
• Annie, necklace with symbols of Superman and Wonder Woman!
• Vanishing Point! Archivists!
• Omega Energy trail leads there, needle in a cosmic haystack, somewhere in Space B...
• Infestation of Hyper-Fauna in the Vanishing Point, the Leviathan is the same...
• Bruce takes the guise of Mordecai, the dead man in the water when he arrived...
• Widow of Matthew Tyler, Tyler family/Hourman...
• Flemish painter Van Derm...
• Brother Malleus...
• Annie lost parents over sea from Bristol Bay. Is she from England, a pilgrim? Then how did she get the necklace presumably made from the images in Anthro's cave paintings...
• Martin Van Derm sketches Mordecai portrait. The book in hand is journal so he can record and remember.
• Memory loss from Omega Sanction...
• Eclipse of the Sun, Devil's false night-in-day. Old Dragon walks by night...
• Mordecai was sent to kill Annie, she prayed for a savior, Bruce came along with the Dragon...
• Hidden people, the Miagani, Bat people, Bat Tribe...
• She worships Bright Gods, old lords of the land and sky, gods of the wheel of time and the never-ending world, and all the space beyond... New Gods!
• Bruce wounds the Dragon, but something is happening...
• The Archivist is Bruce! Traps the heroes in a force field, steals the Time-Sphere back to the 21st century!
• Darkseid took his memories, relied on his will to survive, booby trapping him into a doomsday weapon to destroy the present!
• Annie puts curse on Malleus/Nathaniel Wayne and the whole family!
• Martin Van Derm keeps finished portrait and passes down book of Mordecai.
• The Devil was not yet done with Gotham...
• Bruce wakes up in Bristol Bay, burning ships...
• Referred to as the Black Pirate by...
• Blackbeard! (possibly Vandal Savage?)

Batman and Robin #12 - "Mexican Train"

• So adrenaline kicked in the neural link from #10.
• The Fiends get the casket.
• So Dick was attacked by a giant Bat creature in the bowels of the Wayne caves. Hallucination, or maybe a connection to the Stone Age Bat...
• Wayne Manor built by Nathan Van Derm for Darius Wayne designed like "W", add the lych-way and the paths of the Garden of Death and it becomes giant Bat Signal!
• Dick gets payback from Slade for Bludhaven back in Infinite Crisis.
• Talia reveals she has a clone brewing! Damian wants to stay as Robin, rejecting his Al Ghul legacy. Talia banishes him.
• Crime bosses in Gotham hear of arrival of Doctor Hurt, Gotham on its knees in two days time!
• Final member of the Black Glove with Doctor Hurt, who is the Domino Killer...
• So whatever attack Dick caused the energy and the radio interference...
• Bruce's Bat cowl! And an Eclipse symbol of Orion above it! Alert the JLA!
• Oberon Sexton, the Domino Killer...
• IS THE JOKER!!!
• In the game Mexican Train, unused dominoes are kept in the “boneyard”; the boneyard, of course, is a synonym for a graveyard, which relates both to Sexton’s last name and the name “Gravedigger.” 
• "the fact that all the Black Glove victims, as well (seemingly) as all of Hurt’s goons, wear domino masks."