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This is a momentous day in Gotham. But Alex Knox doesn't know that. He knows that it's a sad day. CIRCUS TRAGEDY is spelled out in big letters on the front page of all the papers. Three dead, one teenaged boy left all alone. Sad, and (given Gotham) probably suspicious.

But as for how Dick Grayson is and who he might be, that is something Knox can't know.

Come say hi.

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"Artemis, 2010, also some version of Gotham."

"That's an unusual name."

"Mom and Dad were into myths."

"That's better than being into calling your kids Moon Unit, I guess." Ah, the 70s. "You go to school in the big city?"

"Gotham North. How about you?"

"Columnist with PM. Went to MacArthur High a looooong time ago." Seems longer than 14 years since they kicked him out and told him it was time to get a job.

"You know the Post has better comics."

Ah, priorities.

"See, that is proof we are from different Gothams. The Post merged into the Globe when I was a kid.

"But...don't tell me my bosses, but we don't have the great comics." He smirks a bit.

"Man, there's always these little things to trip you up."

He laughs a bit. "It's Gotham. Nothing is ever perfect there." He looks at the paper again. "Nothing even comes close, some days."

"If it did, we'd all thing we were in Metropolis."

"God forbid. I would go nuts there. Too clean, too nice, too...Super." He likes Superman. Who doesn't? But that is not what wants to report on.

"What, you don't want your bank heist to happen with power armor and lasers?"

"Actually, in our Metro, no one ever tries even that. People give Supes and that town a wide, wide berth. I think they're afraid he's like a big brother in the sky, listening to everything, watching everything from above." Alex's tone says that he doesn't think this is the case.

"'Big brother is watching. Man you're boring,'" quotes Artemis, "Really, it won't last. Someone is going to try and get around him eventually."

"Luthor tries. And never seems to have a clue. But otherwise...he's been at it for over 10 years now. Long before the other heroes. He's one of a kind.

"But the others...yeah, the super-villains are showing up more and more." Boring? Yeah, he knows that to any teen he must be, at some level.

When you can listen to everyone in a city the size of Metropolis, everyone is boring.

"No Captain Marvel yet? They're pretty close it looks like, on the TV anyway."

"That is a name I doubt I could forget. But nope.

"We have something around 30 so far. Maybe half are affiliated with the League of Heroes. And none except the Lantern and the rumored Martian are in Supes's weight class."

"League of Heroes, not Justice League?"

That's interesting. Separates Knox's out from any of the other versions of Gotham she's heard about here.

"That's what they called themselves. Or what the government did. They don't do many news conferences.

"I would have pushed for Justice League, but they didn't ask me." He knows that it's called that in other timelines. And figures the name will come back at some point.

"Now if that isn't a sign that they need a press secretary I don't know what is."

"Yup. But I don't think I would want that job."

"Share too much once you get going?"

"I bet they don't work together too well behind closed doors. Getting them to work with me would be that much harder."

"You don't think you could just wind them up and point them at the nearest disaster have have it work?"

It sure looks a lot like that from the outside.

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