Previous Post > Love him or hate him, Morrison has us all atwitter with the RIP storyline. I have re-read most of these issues and tried to figure this out, and it's either hiding in plain sight or buried deep. > I sincerely hope that Bruce Wayne is not being written out of the mythos. That would be the ultimate hubris. > > So, what do you think? I think Black Glove will be Bruce, he has brought all this on himslef, ( Bruce wayne is nuts you know) I do beleive that, any way, I believe he will be written out... for now.. I do think ( know he'll be back ) , you should always have faith in that as well when you read this. > > I think the Black Glove has to be Thomas Wayne. > Or, maybe, some relation to Jezebel Jet. > I thought she might turn out to be Bruce's half sister, but haven't they gotten busy? That would give me the shivers.

I have gone back to the RIP Batman issues.
Bruce did not drug himself. It seems we are meant to understand this, even with Morrison's disjointed(but talented) narrative.
We have never been told that Alfred, Robin, or Nightwing have seen him wig out.
Someone else programmed the 3 batmen in 673-675, and they awoke memories in Bruce about Hurt's actions in mind-scrwing all of them.
And Zur-en-arrh ssems to have awakened a defense mechanism in Bruce to reclaim some elemental and basic part of himself. A reaction AGAINST something, like the person that filled him with the drugs.
Bruce as BG does not seem to make sense from the past 6-8 issues.