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I hope you enjoyed this series. Here are the long-awaited details about my next writing project. If you're interested, subscribe to my website, www.fredwattswrites.com . Here are details about my upcoming novel: - The novel's working title is The Hole in Philadelphia - It's an alternate history set ...

Author's Note: This is the final chapter of Batman 1939: Three's Company, and, in all likelihood, the final chapter in the Batman 1939 series. I will share some closing notes here in a few days, including details about my next writing project. If you're interested, follow my website, www.fredwattswr...

Author's Note: This is the second to last chapter of Batman 1939: Three's Company. This novel has been fun, and not only in disappointing the four people who want a Batman/Three's Company crossover. It was started in the early days of the Covid pandemic, in the hopes of offering a little distraction...

Author's Note: Dear readers, it is bittersweet to say, but I've finished writing Batman 1939: Three's Company. However, the final chapter was so long that I've decided to split it into three chapters. This is the beginning of the end. The middle will be posted in two days, on Friday the 25th, and th...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 20: Storytelling​ [/b] Sindella Zatara lost tonight. She was kicked out of her house; she was spurned by the only family she cared for; she almost lost her life. It was easy to cry over losing, but once she accepted the night was over, Sindella took the long vie...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 19: Estranged Affections​ [/b] Catwoman and Zatanna looked between Batman and each other. They were not at a loss for words so much as a traffic jam competing to be spoken first. Eventually, words gushed out. “You know him?” shouted Catwoman at Zatanna. “Were yo...

LadyTevar wrote: ↑2022-01-07 04:39pm Well well... took her long enough.

In her defense, they hadn't met since she was 12, and she's been distracted all night.

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 18: Discovered​ [/b] In the hidden room behind the fireplace. Lord Felix of Faust entered the illusory fire in pursuit of his final prey, an untrained mage and a mundane. Normally such foes wouldn’t warrant a tenth of his might, but he had suffered enough from t...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 17: Subtle and Quick to Anger​ [/b] The room beyond the auxiliary treasury. Sindella . Zatara’s mother was Sindella. Yes, Catwoman remembered the name from the talk in the dining room. She studied the resting woman’s face in the candlelight. Sindella’s hair was ...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 16: The Magnificent Zataras​ Over the Emergent Sea. Lord Faust no longer sensed Shadowcrest’s spirit. Its absence felt bizarre, even perverse. After the initial glee passed, a victory this simple made him uneasy. It was dangerous to have distractions when one at...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 15: The Goods​ Gotham City. Fourteen years ago. Bruce Wayne was backstage in a theater. On the other side of the curtain, Giovanni Zatara performed to a packed audience. Bruce ignored their applause. He was doing pushups with an open book under his face. Every f...

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Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 14: More Things in Heaven and Earth​ [/b] The life of a mage was full of surprises, and Zachary Cehennem quickly overcame his shock at being tied to a table by scary people. He decided that he had one problem. It wasn’t that he felt terrible; he could walk it of...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 13: Harm and Healing​ [/b] When the giant bat disappeared, Batman stood another moment then fell to his knees. His chest shook so rapidly that he couldn’t finish a breath. He began to pitch forward as he gulped for air, almost hitting the floor. He pushed back t...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 12: Brujaja​ Batman had thought about how to neutralize Shadowcrest since the moment they met, and he still didn’t have any ideas. Shadowcrest watched him with pure hostility. Sharp objects circled its hands like tame bees. Batman spoke very slowly. ” I’m not yo...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 11: The Sanguine Solution​ [/b] The Emergent Sea was a fortress disguised as a briny, measureless expanse. Measureless here did not mean infinite. Rather, the sea resisted measurement. Lengths and angles shifted with the waves, and the distance between two point...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 10: Support [/b] Batman, Catwoman, and Zatanna shared a look, reading each other in the flicker of the fireplace. Something had gone out in the women’s shell-shocked eyes. Even Batman’s stony face bent low. Shadowcrest was leaving. Their ghostly guide was the on...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 9: Lulu’s Back in Town​ [/b] The mystic cage containing the journals of Giovanni Zatara was bound by three metal bands, each built with twelve sturdy latches. It was an intimidating piece of security, though its fearsome appearance was diminished when the thirty...

I guess we'll see.

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 8: Straights Against Curves​ [/b] Catwoman was angry. The feeling had consumed her so quickly that she only realized her anger after she noticed that her cheeks felt hot and her stomach refused to unclench and her vision was tunneling and she wanted to break thi...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 7: Questions for the Chairman​ Batman clung at the edge of panic. There was sweat on his neck. He felt a buzz radiating through his limbs like feedback through a speaker. His fingers twitched, so he folded them into fists. His mouth was sandstone, so he swallowe...

Batman 1939: Three's Company Chapter 6: Homecoming Queen​ [/b] Gotham City. Fourteen years ago. Giovanni Zatara had never lived long at one address. He liked the traveling lifestyle, but it had its disadvantages. Being a single parent was more difficult on the road. Yet over the years he grew accus...

LadyTevar wrote: ↑2020-07-13 12:33am

Stewart M wrote: ↑2020-07-12 10:21pm Not to some Leno-esque magnitude, but it's pretty chiseled.

TBH, I've been seeing him as B:TAS. They went pretty 30s with a lot of the imagery, so that's where my mind went.

I consider B:TAS a core inspiration for the series. That's a fine mental template.

SpottedKitty wrote: ↑2020-07-12 10:17pm

LadyTevar wrote: ↑2020-07-11 10:58am

Stewart M wrote: ↑2020-07-09 08:28pm The curious thing is Selina has almost never heard his default voice...

Huh... never noticed that.

On the gripping hand... does he have a distinctive chin, like Judge Dredd?

Not to some Leno-esque magnitude, but it's pretty chiseled.

Who know, it might be meaningful.