#i also read your commentary in comic club. enjoying the grail discussions though i dont know much lore

[sharkjumpers]

[ID: a comic panel of a computer screen that has the illusion of wings stretching out to either side of it so it looks like an angel. a voice from the computer reads, "Then it falls to you, young Bruce. You are of the house of GeVain. It is a blood duty you take on. Your line has borne this responsibility many times." End ID.]

this is from Batman: The Chalice. i'm pretty sure that Gevain is a corruption of Gawain, but i don't get why... "gawain" already sounds a lot like "wayne". BTW, i don't believe gawain is typically shown as achieving the grail in english... usually it's percival (originally) or galahad (later), though there is at least one german poem where it is gawain.

though quite frankly the waynes being guardians of the grail going back hundreds of years seems to imply that they're descendants of the fisher king, not an arthurian knight? i'd have to actually read Diu Crône (the german poem where gawan achieves the grail) to be sure, though

the basic plot of the comic is that the previous grailholders are being killed off or something, so they send it to bruce wayne for safekeeping. here's him + alfred looking at the engravings on this weird bowl and realizing what it is:

[ID: a comic panel of batman and Alfred Pennyworth analyzing something. Batman says, "The first name is Josephus. The next is Brons and then Alainsohn." Alfred says, "Oh my-- oh, my." End ID.]

(BTW, one of the things i like about this comic is that the grail isn't a goblet. a grail is just a serving vessel, but "really fancy cup" is generally how people picture the holy grail.)

once people, like ra's al-ghul, realize that bruce has the holy grail, they start attacking him for it. he spends most of the book trying to verify that it's the real deal IIRC, and once he does he gives it to clark to keep in the fortress of solitude.

i don't like this comic. i'm pretty sure it's not canon though

this is so fascinating i love learning information genuinely. thank you for sharing this with me jamie. Obsessed with this random writer just deciding to give batman what is presumably the holy grail for some reason and also possibly changing gawain to... gevain? why...... commit to the bit. be brave.