"Something's wrong with Owlman."
Once the meeting ended, everyone returned to their own universes. Batman waited until he was alone with Brad before making that quiet remark.
"I know."
Brad toyed with the Space-Time Pen in his hand. After opening the gateways to the Three Parallel Universes, he hadn't put it away yet.
The silver-white metal shaft danced between Brad's fingers, its yellow crystal tracing a circular halo of light.
Batman frowned and waited. When Brad offered nothing more, he hesitated, then asked tentatively, "Is whatever's behind Owlman something I can't get involved in?"
"Yes and no."
Brad stopped twirling the pen and gripped it in his palm, scratching his forehead with its tip as though nursing a headache.
"To be precise, Batman had better stay out of this. Owlman has already been taken over. Judging by the traces of information density leaking out, the culprit is that disgusting thing I've seen so many times before-the hybrid produced by mixing Joker's information density with Batman's."
"The Batman Who Laughs.
."
"Aside from Joker, he's the embodiment of orthodox madness's lingering remnants in the Multiverse. The logic of madness is that there is no logic, and the Batman Who Laughs is the perfect example. Every unreasonable development will unfold exactly the way he wants."
"Madness of the Endless Family doesn't care about the Batman Who Laughs, even if he's the greatest beneficiary of the remnants of her power in the Multiverse. Other forces have gotten involved in this process. They're coveting the Endless's conceptual powers."
"They're just shooting themselves in the foot. But even though they won't succeed in the end, the process is still incredibly aggravating."
The Batman Who Laughs was a story with no logic, a creation that obeyed no reason, insanity taken to its absolute extreme. Without any