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Highfive KimT, first review. You go girl!
You’re quite right that we haven’t heard anything about the Alfred/Anatole feud since Polishing Silver. At that point, as described by Alfred, it had pretty much settled into uneventful mutual-wariness, kind of like the TNG-era Federation and Romulans around the neutral zone. You can assume if you haven’t heard anything, there haven’t been any developments, or at least none worth mentioning. Of course with a Frenchman involved, that could change at any time.

Since I didn’t know about the Post story with an Arkham employee cracking up, I guess it hasn’t occurred in the catverse –so far. Of course with Joker around, that too could change at any time.

The autodownloads have been discussed before, but not recently. Each night, the batcomputer pulls massive amounts of information from all kinds of corporate and government databases, analyzes and filters them according to a very specific query matrix Bruce developed and constantly tweaks in response to new criminals and other changes in the Gotham landscape. Just between us, Bruce is astonished at just how stubbornly predictable and downright dense his enemies remain. Despite all the updates he creates to hone the filtering, most of the triggers occur from items like this Pomona and Demeter, that date back to the earliest set of parameters.

Hey Quinnce! Some writers do put considerable thought into names (Quint and Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw, John Burden in All the King’s Men, etc.). As it’s a mark of truly “literary” writers, we tend not to see it very much in popular media (although Han Solo was certainly a loner). But it’s always nice to notice names, and being aware that they COULD mean something, give it a few moments thought. Writers insert all kinds of easter eggs like that, which reward really active thinking readers. So Kudos for even raising the subject.

Now, the trivia. It sounds like a cop out to say I pick stuff up all over the place, like lint. But that’s pretty much the most accurate description. Walapang is something Dien mentioned to me in IM a couple months ago. I filed it in some dusty corner of my brain, and it jumped out here. I don’t know where I first learned about gemprints, it’s been quite a long time. But I was reminded recently when I saw a Law and Order rerun about blood diamonds. With the subject of diamond IDs fresh in my mind from that, I googled for details on the gem prints.


Jarissa! Hi darling. I destroy books too. You should see my first copy of Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feyman.

Deadpan, Yep, she can be taught-kinda. We saw in Fortune Cookies how she is biding her time on the Clayface/Harley situation because she (miracle of miracles) realized her impulsive acting out had a way of “not ending well” as the saying goes, bring on rampaging trees, berserkers, and Whitman samplers to name but a few. But then only a story later, she can get so drunk on her good press she brought about the very Cat-Upstaging she feared. All in all, I wouldn’t expect much in the way of material or lasting growth outside of a Pink Sapphire world. (Not so subtle reminder that Pammy is currently starring in her own Cat-Tales AU: Reap What You Sow, by Allaine. Highly recommended)