Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #2

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Until the End of Time

Bruce Wayne) saves the woman named Annie from a tentacular monster), and she then nurses Wayne back to health. Just as he passes out, he notices she posseses necklaces with the Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman sigils he drew on the cave, back in the Paleolithic era. He finds himself in Gotham Colony, where he assumes the identity of the witch-hunter Mordecai and solves a murder, but clashes with the witch-hunting Brother Malleus). He also poses for sketches by artist Martin Van Derm. Bruce gives Van Derm explicit instructions that will ensure that a portrait will be made based upon these sketches. Bruce has also begun writing a journal containing the scant memories he has of his travels through time and his experiences in this time. Bruce entrusts Martin with the journal.

Meanwhile, at Vanishing Point, at the end of time, Booster Gold), Rip Hunter), Green Lantern) and Superman) consult the "archivist," who explains that time is like a tangled loom, continually branching off and intersecting.

With only minutes before the destruction of the timeline, the archivist reveals himself as an older version of Batman himself, who steals Rip Hunter's Time Sphere and leaves the heroes to experience the death of the universe, while Superman pleads with him to stop. Superman tells him that, when Darkseid sent Batman back in time, he erased Bruce's memories but turned him into an unspecified 'doomsday weapon', knowing that Batman's powerful survival instincts would lead him back to the twenty-first century, at which point Darkseid's 'trap' will be triggered.

In the meantime at the village of Gotham, Annie takes Bruce to the caves where she found him and soon they are confronted by the monster again. Bruce stays and fights the monster and Annie returns to the village, looking for help. However, she is captured by Malleus, who accuses her of witchcraft and her punishment is death by hanging. Before dying, Annie tells him he'll pay though, as she knows his real name: Nathaniel Wayne. She curses him and all his descendants until the end of time, and is then hanged to her death.

After a brutal match against the monster, Bruce emerges from a large body of water, loudly yelling Annie's name. He stumbles onto the shores of a beach, right under the boot of Blackbeard), the pirate.

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Mordecai) **Supporting Characters:** * Time Masters) ** Superman) ** Rip Hunter) ** Booster Gold) ** Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)) ** Skeets) * "The Archivist" * Goodwife Tyler * Martin Van Derm) * Annie **Antagonists:** * "Brother Malleus") * The Dragon) **Other Characters:** * Blackbeard) **Locations:** * Gotham Colony ** Dragon's Cave * Vanishing Point **Items:** * Green Lantern Ring **Vehicles:** * Time Sphere

| Notes = | Trivia = * Goodwife Tyler's murdered husband is named as "Matthew Tyler", but there is no apparent connection to Matthew Tyler). | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Grant Morrison

Interior art: Frazer Irving

Color: Frazer Irving

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