[The news reports of the Bat being out and about while Thomas Brandon is in the hospital are numerous.
Claims and blurry images are rampant, allowing people to compare the current Bat’s suit to the former Bat’s suit, in order to determine if the new Bat is an impostor attempting to protect Thomas Brandon. Tumblr and Twitter are filled with such discussions. Demands for a new story from Job Arakkis are loud and numerous, and Thomas, Inc., and Monarch Industries are being asked to make official statements. Orin Monarch, having been seen prominently having a drunken brawl with an unknown woman on Pike street, is exonerated. And even Brandon’s son, Luke Henry, was sighted at a local strip club while the Bat was out and about, silencing the insistence of some fangirls that the handsome young heir is truly the Bat.
Intrepid young internet bloggers are beginning to document the appearance of all Seattle’s vigilantes, searching to see if anyone is missing from their numbers, and websites are popping up to document appearances. Reports that the Bat is being seen in the vicinity of a lesser known vigilante called Night cause rumors to flare that the two are working in tandem, and there is even discussion of Night’s suit being a derivative of the Bat’s.
Among all the detective work, there is also an angry contingent that demands to know who the Bat really is. There are websites dedicated to devising strategy to “catch” the Bat, including information on staging crimes that will catch the Caped Crusader’s attention.]