The Universe's Mixer

Dear Editor,

I have heard many people crying out against what Mayor Jack Heart says when he talks about the vigilantes of this fair city, decrying his words as blaspheme, saying that he's wrong, saying that he's foolish to think that those caped and necowled crusaders are only there to make our lives safer and easier, but I'm here to tell you that they're wrong.

As somebody who has lived in a world where these people exist in nature, I can tell you whole-heartedly that these people are insane. They put on costumes and run amok, claiming to be a boon to society, when all they're really doing is putting innocent people into hospitals, wrecking havoc on innocent cities, not caring about what happens to bystanders, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage in their wake. And for what? To bring down a small handful of petty criminals?

The likes of Batman, Superman, Black Canary, Robin, Green Arrow and their fellows take the law into their own hand. We have a police force for this reason, everyone from beat cops to the FBI - or CBI as it were, here - people who are trained to make sure that our streets are clean of the scum. Vigilantes say they're working in the name of the People, all the while breaking laws themselves.

Is a life saved still a life if your neck was broken as you were being saved?

I, for one, call for an immediate unmasking of these foolish people! Make them face the reality of what they've done without their pretty costumes to hide their shame!

Sincerely,

Joe K. Earsworthy

First the graffiti, and now the letter to the editor. Dinah had searched after seeing the vandalism on the Clock tower and the Wayne building, but she hadn't found any further sign of him. If the Joker was somehow alive, he hadn't left his usual trail of bodies. He hadn't even pulled off any practical jokes besides the messages on those two buildings.

But the letter to the editor was enough that Dinah couldn't just keep telling herself that he couldn't be back.

She had to talk to those involved with the Justice League-assuming the League was still functional. And she also needed to warn Jen. She thought that they'd done a pretty good job of keeping Jen's connection to the League secret, but the Joker had a knack for ferreting out things like that. Jen might know the score about the Joker to some extent, but she didn't deserve to be in the line of fire without her knowledge.

Which was why Dinah had gotten ahold of Jen on the comm to set up meeting. Once she learned that the agent was at the police station after hours, she dropped by. Even if it was an 'official' meeting in a way, she chose to stay in plainclothes. There was maybe a bit of awkwardness at the prospect of meeting with the woman that Dean had been sleeping with just before she and Dean had gotten together, but she had wanted to talk to Jen eventually anyway. Not like this, but then again when did things ever go as planned?

Once inside the building, she tapped on the door to Jen's office.