Boston Brand --can anyone confirm he's Deadman? (looking at Lord of Nothings)-- says he'd saved Tim's life twice. I'm certain that one was when the bum broke the bottle on the woman-in-white-dress' head. But which was the other?


Does anyone know if Titania is Tim's mother or am I just being misled by a bad translation ("are you going to create worlds, too, my son?"), the mortal woman's face the Faerie Queen sees in the mundane egg (who was wearing the same red jewels she was in the previous picture) and the Empress card (the Mother)?


Does anyone else believe that Mister E. himself was the blind man from the future --who had walked looking for something but couldn't remember what it was-- who taught him the Walking into the Future Art?

1: according the the Encyclopedia Of Superheroes, Boston Brand is Deadman

2: Can't answer the question directly, but the quote IS the same in the English edition. The necklaces are similar though, not the same. Maybe someone who has read the ongoing series can answer the question about who his mom is

"Necklaces", that was the word!

Well, at least I was right about Deadman, though my question remains unanswered. Actually, both do.

One thing I forgot is that Merlin is son of Belial, one of the Dukes of Hell and father of Etrigan. Merlin was the most powerful mage of his era. It makes sense that the greatest conduit of power of this age had an uncommon parent, too.

Other, non-Neil books do say yes to your other questions. I believer the Mister E mini-series that followed BOM confirms the Mr. E question, as does the BOM series.

Yes, Bostan Brand is definantly Deadman - and he's Cool, read deadman/batman. I'll re-read it and let you know when I think he saved his life -- but I agree with you on the first instance the bum used the word 'Kiddo' which is one of Brands words.

Yes, the continuing series does confirm that Titania was Tims Mother - his father was Tamlin (not the fairy king).

I think yes, it's likely Mr E was the blind man from the future who forgot what he was looking for - at the end of time Death did send him walking back 'the long way' so it's likely that he would have fogot what he was going to by the time he got back to the present.

Actually, he passed over his present and reached his past, when he taught himself to Walk to the Future. Great paradox, eh?


And my guess is that Deadman (yup, he is cool, I know him, but I couldn't remember whether that was his name) warned Corrigan/Spectre about the sniper, which explains his/their sudden transformation.

Anybody else thinks the Spectre is Raguel?

*remembers another Neil's story where Raguel is mentioned and wonders how --if at all-- both versions fit.

I guess he could be, it fits with what I know of hime.

Is the stranger's story something to do with Christs crusifiction?

I love the BOM, both my last sigs were from there, and if I didn't like the current one so much I'd be temped to change it to
"Now DON'T try to bite me. There are things in my bloodstream you REALLY don't want in your mouth"

One of the reasons I love the book so much, apart from the great storyline in itself is there are so many little thing you find each time you read it, and the more that you read of the DC universe, it's 'oh,yes, that's so and so' or 'oh, yes, that refers to such and such an event' eg what the things are in John's bloodstream!

Also, Mr. E was, or so I always thought, the one that taught the green, sea-spider-eating things to speak in English (one of them says something like "a man that came walking form the future taught us your language" or seomthing like that).
of course this is probably obvious to mos,t since I ahd not realized Mr. E was the one who taught himself.

*feels slow*

I think the Spectre is offically the Wrath of God, slightly below God's power level.

For some reason, the Spectre isn't Corrigan anymore... its Hal Jordan, the former Silver Age Green Lantern. He tried to destroy all of time and was rewarded with almost ultimate power. Yeeha.

And no one can see him as Hal Jordan, not even JLA members.


LoN, you're right, the official denomination for the Spectre is the Wrath of God. I can easily relate Wrath and Vengeance, anyway.


Clover, I agree. I wonder though if he ever stopped walking.

And I also wonder why Death judged Mr. E and sent him walking back through time when she could have brought both of them back...?

Oh, my... how did she send Tim back? Is Death able to time-travel? Or any of the Endless, for that matter???

i think for the Endless TIme and Space doesn't exist as it does for us. Death, after all, is everywhere all the time, welcoming and taking lives, as she herself explains.
If you remember at the end of the Kindly Ones thaere's a part which describes "a day in Dream's life", and he visits strange worlds in strange, maybe, times.
I think the Endless choose to followw time in a given universe or plane, becaus eit's easier and tidier, and maybe those are the "rules". But they certainly have the power to go wherever and whenever they want.

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And no one can see him as Hal Jordan, not even JLA members.


LoN, you're right, the official denomination for the Spectre is the Wrath of God. I can easily relate Wrath and Vengeance, anyway.

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Hmmm... is it known if the current Dr. Fate, Hector Hall, can see that Daniel is his son?

And man... there's been some metaphysical shuffling going on at the DCU lately. For more ont the subject, kinda, Kevin Smith's QUIVER (his Green Arrow story) sheds some more light on both The Demon and the Phantom Stranger. And, i think, the Spectre.

I don't remember why, though.

Hector Hall???

*shivers*

That could turn in such big mess.

And no, Daniel is something beyond Daniel Hall so I doubt Hall can see his former identity, though he should feel a connection (although he was an absent, deluded father and never saw him alive).

Does anyone know why Dr. Occult calls and considers Phantom Strange a friend?

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Well... they're in the same line of work, they've been around since Superman (er, they were created around the same time... the characters have presumably been around much longer)... it just seems to make sense that they'd know each other, i guess. They'd bump into each other as mysterious mystical type people.

And if you want confusing DCU cosmology, the JLA had an angel on their team for a while... was that ever connected to Neil's Heaven? And what of Blaze and Satanus? I remember reading in the Companion that Neil had to make his cosmology fit DCU cosmology, so shouldn't it work in reverse-- DCU cosmology should include his stuff...

Oh... the Hal Jordan Spectre was suggested by people on a DCU messege board... so keep those posts coming... someone might be listening

The strange thing is that Phantom Strange has supposedly no friends and Dr. Occult would be the first one. If that's not a cosmic event, it's, at least, one of the most touching things I can think of.

More confusing DCU cosmology: When Saint of the Killers meets Old Nick, a red goat-legged, classic portrait of the Devil. In A rogue at Hell's doors Lucifer gets rid of Belcebu and Azazel, which seems to ignore the events told in Season of Mists. Maybe because Garth Ennis wrote both (I love his work, though)

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Er... Preacher isn't in DCU continuity. Its completly seperate. Only Vertigo series that interact with the DCU are Swamp Thing, Sandman, and Hellblazer... and their spin-offs. Preacher and Transmet and all that have seperate worlds.

OK, Saint of the Killers doesn't mess with DCU continuity.

But A rogue at Hell's doors is a Hellblazer arc, which means that Ennis did cause a mess.

Ah...

Well... i'm not DCU continuity expert, and the odd status of Vertigo means some of the stuff contridicts other comics and other mainstream comics... its pretty bizzare, i think.