The Mind Mentor of Marvel and DC
Chapter 3257

The Gloom of Farainess (Final)

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The novel had already reached its ending, with only half a blank page left, but for some reason, another stack of pages had been added afterward, and handwriting began appearing at a rapid pace.

The earlier text had all been written in elegant cursive, with clear traces of handwriting, yet the spacing had been carefully arranged. The later writing started out cursive too, but eventually went completely off the rails, no longer caring about line spacing or letter spacing as it grew faster and faster.

Later still, certain words expressing shock became capitalized, seemingly to emphasize the impact. The capital letters were written larger and larger, then heavily traced over several times.

The entire work began to overflow with all manner of battle scenes.

First, Joker and Batman fought the Deep Ones. Then Batman awakened the ancient soul within the lighthouse and piloted the lighthouse straight into Fish God Dagon, killing him. Batman turned Fish God Dagon's corpse into a mechanical monster and battled Ibo-Zitel.

Seeing that he could not win, Joker summoned his army of clones. But at that moment, the church's army entered the fray as well. They brought out the evil bone dragons cultivated beneath the Holy City and fought Batman's lighthouse monster, mechanical Fish God, and Joker's army to the death.

Nyarlathotep went numb.

It was not that his mental fortitude was lacking. Anyone would go numb watching this stuff.

American comics were already chaotic enough in their storytelling. Turning them into a novel made them even more absurd—three times wordier than a storytelling version of Avengers Fighting at the Airport, and more repetitive than a rapid-fire comedy routine about Doctor Strange battling Dormammu.

The handwriting raced across the page. In little more than ten minutes, it had filled the entire extra stack of paper. Batman

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