"I didn't think he was real -- just a rumor running through the Gotham City cartels to effectively scare themselves silly.

But here he is -- standing in front of myself, someone calling himself "The Flash", and that flying woman who occasionally pops up on international news websites during skirmishes involving terrorists factions or Third World dictators.

He's the Batman, and he's walking, talking, and barking out orders to the rest of his "Justice League". If I wasn't fused with alien technology and bleeding-edge cybernetics, I would think this assemblage utterly absurd.

Batman gave me a t-shirt for "trying and not dying" -- it's the Batman Compression T Shirt