the-bruce

A color comic panel shows a well-dressed man in a suit, drawn to resemble Bruce Wayne, standing in a dim garage or cave beside a car, gesturing as he speaks. A large stylized 'B' logo decorates the wall behind him. He says: 'This is the Bruce-mobile. I park it in my Bruce-cave while wearing my Bruce-suit. Everything is Bruce's and people can't take that away like they took my parents away.' A caption beneath the panel reads: 'What if Bruce Wayne never invented Batman?' The joke imagines a Bruce Wayne who coped with his trauma by branding everything with his own name instead of becoming Batman. Votey (bonus panel): a simple black-and-white line drawing of the same man's face looking troubled and pensive, with the text 'I need to adopt a best friend.'