This DCverse is Maddening

Hello everyone! I am proud to announce, that Volume 1 of This DCverse is Maddening, has officially ended! You have no idea how proud and glad I am to have finally achieved one of my many goals here! And thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you all for staying with the story for this long! Over 177k words and almost a fully year later!

I wanted the world and Albert to be in certain places in time. If you guy haven't found out, then I am here to verify that yes, this is a AU. This is a time just after the creation of the Justice League, but before Batman was known to be an actual member. And I decided to use this prison break as his entry to the world stage.

Now the most prevalent question people had was why Albert even stayed in Gotham in the first place, and for that I can come up with so many excuses trying to explain my reasoning but I won't bullshit you guys; there's no real reason. I like Gotham as a setting, it already has that Noir city vibe that I was going for and it was gritty as hell.

Sure I could've done Star City, with the Green Arrow, or just cross the river over to Metropolis. But I didn't. I grew up watching the old Batman animated tv show and it's stuck with me ever since. I like the villains, I like the conflict, I like the vigilantes.

I just like Gotham, a lot.

So yeah that's the answer to that burning question, just the author playing favorites.

Other than that, this isn't the end of Albert's story. There's a lot of hidden mysteries I've scattered all across the volume, little nuggets that'll lead into future cases. Like for instance, whose the illusory group that planned the prison break? Why did they take those particular villains? Who mutated Killer Croc and why did he attack? And many, many more! In fact, I plan for volume 1 to be the SHORTEST volume. The following volumes are going be cases after cases, with some of slice of life to break things up.

Thank you again for all your support, I couldn't have done this without you. I read all the comments multiple times per day and it acted fuel to keep me going, even when my writing felt like a slog. I hope you to see you all in the next volume!

[A/N: This is just an addon, but I decided to do a little Q/A down below in the comments!]