In this scene, He's sitting at his parents house holding a beer, and chatting with his sister. Some of the things that conspired over the last 30 min may have been a little iligal, but not that much, oh, and just to clear things up a bit, not a bit imoral.

He was asked to buy the girls some beer, and other such things. Not the kind of thing a normal brother would do, but not that strange. When you think about it, who else would you ask first...the guy goes around wearing a big black trench coat, and speaks with a british accent (too bad he has never been to england). So, he's the first person people ask. He's bought all sorts of things for all sorts of people. Doesn't realy worry about the ramafcations of it, as long is it pays. Well, this time, the profit was 5$, out of the 15$ given to him. It's amazing how much he can jack the prices up, and still have people come back. But, to simpley answer that, others jack it up more, and have less deseriable results. Our 20th centuary batman is rarely suspected of doing nefarious things, even though he ususaly is upto them. Only when he travels to large cityes, where they are 'scared' of people like him does he ever get questioned. But, when he's in a position that he could get into serious trouble, he keeps his ilicited actions to a mininum so that he can't actualy get into any trouble.

So, anotherwords, aside from doing various heroic things, he also does some that are not so heroic. Though he also has to do the latter, it's how he funds his heroic things. It's an ironic catch 22 situation. He can't win for lousing. If he only does heroic, and good things, he ends up broke all the time. Too broke to upkeep his equipment, and is thusly forced to do slightly iligal things to get the fundage. This has been done more times that he wants to admit to. But, it's all in a days work. He misses working at pizza hut down in kansas, but in retrospect, knows that he did all the good he could there. Thier is a time to say goodbye.

Now he's just waiting, waiting for his mother to come home with his little brother. His little brother, and a mob of other people he doesn't know at all. Who are all going to sleep at the house in places yet to be decided. Lucley for out 20th century batman, he lives elsewhere, just visits here at times. Travels from place to place by two modes. Either a little red skateboard, or a big desial truck (semi). Either one works, but the mode depends greatly on the destination. Oddly enough, the skateboard is used the most.

The whole situation with his little brother is a bit perplexing, and truely deserves it's own chapter, but we will just skim the surface of it a bit in this one.

His name is john, a very common name. Quite similar to the name given to random unidentified bodies found, except his last name is a bit diffrent. Also the name of John the baptist, a holly person from the christian bible. Also quite simalar to the one of the main charecters in the cartoon 'garfield', except spelled a bit diffrently, and his last name is diffinitly not arbuckl. Ok, enough about his name

He is one of gods disiples, or more likely thinks he is, whatever. Realy, it's all the same. If god didn't exist, we would have invented him anyway, maby he does, or maby he doesn't. Works out the same either way if you think about it right. So, as the story goes, he went to something called masters commision. It is very similar to semanary, or more likely the same thing with a diffrent name. But, it's still pretty wierd.

All the stipulations that are put uppon him are rather odd. He can't watch disney movies, or anything over G while in the course. Also, he can't be alone with a girl for more than five minuits. This seems rather odd to me, I mean, I know that christans are not supposto have casual sex, but five min, is not very long. And, as a note of intrest, a guy can be alone with a girl, and have nothing sexual happen, or even have it suggested. I personaly have spent a lot of time with girls, and have proven this theroy. Spend time Watching movie, talking about the state of the union, or theoligy. Whatever. Even the ocasional game of chess. Rarely does a game of chess lead to hardcore sex, or even the inuendo of it.

While our editor is not a christian, he does think that they have thier place. Thier religion is a good way to control an otherwise unwieldy population. What better way to make people be nice to each other than to tell them that if they arn't, that they will burn in a place called 'hell' for all of eternity if they don't. Realy, this is the most efficent way to control the masses. One of the gloryous things about it, is the fact that they don't even know that they are being controled. They are blinded by faith. Blind to the thruth. Quite often they can't see the forest for the trees. Maby they just don't want to see, they live in thier little 'perfect' world, and never leave, never want to leave.

Sadness and pain, These are the things they clame come from the devel, and from god, but mostly from the devel. They say that god is all good, but how can someone be all good. Good is quite weak. And, on the flip side, Evil is quite strong. But, all for diffrent reasons. Good is very concerned about what it does, thinks about all the ramafacations, and possible outcomes from a simple action. Thusly, good is slow to act, and strikes very pricicely, and carefully. Evil on the other hand throws caution to the wind, and never thinks past the next act. They strike often, and randomly. But, with great force. Quite often hurting themselves in the process. Quite hard to calculate, Evil tends to be very inteligent, it that kind tends to live longer, but good on the other hand protects all of thier kind, even the useless ones. Hence some of thier weakness. It's a truely confusing problem.

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