Puppeteer 1

Arguing about gimmicks.

Batman, Spoiler, Black Mask, and Ventriloquist are entirely owned by DC Comics.

Page 1 – False Facers safehouse

1 Black Mask: “So. Status report. What the hell happened?”
1 Thug: “Our territory took another hit.”
2 Thug: “It was the holdings we gained from the Odessa losses after so many of them went to jail. But we’ve been paying some of the remaining Sabatinos to run it for us, and this new Scarface seems to have a particular nut against the Sabatinos. Her people shot ours up, and now they’re holding our territory.”
2 Black Mask: “Damn it, I’m not going to be bested by some bitch with a puppet fetish!”
3 Thug: “Uh, boss, do you really want to talk smack about her gimmick? Everyone in this town has one.”
3 Black Mask: “That isn’t her gimmick! She ripped it off from that Wesker chump! I bet she doesn’t even have a split personality.”
4 Thug: “It’s true. I’ve seen her with Scarface. He doesn’t even lisp his B’s anymore. No way she’s really channeling him. It’s just smoke and mirrors to trade off the real Scarface’s reputation.”
4 Thug: “Bullshit. There’s no ‘real’ Scarface to channel. Wesker wasn’t well, and hallucinated him. The new Ventriloquist is just a crass opportunist.”
5 Black Mask: “Damn it. I don’t need another freak trying to muscle me out. People are already forgetting about me.”
5 Thug: “We were overextended anyway. We can take it back, but not without making ourselves more vulnerable elsewhere. We should focus on strength, rather than size.”
6 Thug: “This is a big insult to just meekly take it.”
6 Black Mask: “Enough. Let me think on this.”

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