Robin #9

Setting: outside the gotham museum, take a few frames to show dick grayson sitting alone on the bus bored.

tour guide: Welcome to the best museum in gotham;Gotham heights middle students! I'm gonna be your tour guide today to our special event: the wonderous woman exhibit.

random boy in front of dick: what's really wondrous is if we could go home early

the boys snicker and dick glares at them.

dick: could you please be quiet im trying to listen.

tourguide: and remember to meet back here by 3 okay? now on with the tour!

the tour continues and show a montage of the different exhibits before opening up to the art gallery.

tg: wonder woman is Heralded as one of the worlds greatest historical mysteries. 

tg: many historians wonder about who in the world she is.

tg: is she one woman who lived throughout the centuries

tg: a undead creature or alien? 

tg: or is she a long line of women who simply dress the same to make a point?

tg: regardless of the answer there is one thing we know for sure: she is real

tg: and her last sighting was by a journalist in vietnam in 1965.

the frame is centered on a picture of wonderwoman leading women and children away from a battlefield.

TG: as we enter the exhibit proper i feel the need to remind everyone again that the exhibits are for lookign not touching beyond this point.

TG: the collection ahead is art

TG: and even some ancient weapons gathered throughout the years

TG: by the grecian wonder woman society who have graciously loaned the collection to the museum for a limited time.

TG: now please enjoy looking at the art and ponder the question of who you think wonder woman is.

The children scatteres with a solid chunk of the boys going towards the collection of weapons and armor, others seem to split between the tapestries and paintings a few go over ot pottery but grayson who prefers to be quiet at museums went over to the statue putting his earbuds in. 

graysons mind: the society must have been very dedicated to maintain even the paint on the statue.

grayson: now im up close though she looks kinda like hippolita.

center on teh wonder woman statue for a moment before diana inters the side of the frame.

Grayson looks at diana who is staring up at the statue of herself pondering.

grayson: hey. are you a part of the wonderwoman society?

she looks at him

diana: no im here to verify the exhibits. i was brought in because i am the forefront expert on wonder woman and the ancient history she is assosciated with.

grayson: okay. then whats witht eh look your giving the statue?

diana: its nothing much. i just noticed some paint peeling where the hair and the shoulder meets. 

grayson: really? i didnt notice.

diana: thats because it only just started to crack. its so small most wouldn't even see it.

grayson pulls out his phone (provided by wayne foster) and uses the camera to look closer to the statue.

there is in fact a crack in the paint. its teeeny tinnny.

dick: woah how did that get missed?

diana: corners like that is difficult to stick varnish to. it tends to slide off the paint or pool. 

diana: funny how not even statues cannot escape the gaze of time. and yet...

diana gets a far off look in her eyes as dick takes photos and pulls out his sketchbook.

diana shakes her head snapping out of her funk and looks at dick.

diana: you like to draw?

dick: its just a hobby to pass the time. helps me sit still on rest days.

diana: ah an athletes hobby.

dick: yeah though i have gotten out of practice. 

diana: well then might i suggest you go over to the pottery section. every piece tells a story though it is displayed out of order. start with the highest odd numbered one and go down, do the same with the following evens.

dick: looks over to teh pottery exhibit you know what. I think ill take you up on that. thanks for the suggestion miss?

diana: diana. checks her watch oh look at that i lost track of time goodbye son of man.

they part ways but the camera follows diana as she enters the employees only area.

Dick walks over to the pottery section looking at the pots and sketching them in his book.

dick: lets see following diana's instructions...

rado pair of dudes walking past: this exhibit was such a bust.

other rando: yeah i mean they dont even make sense.

rando: yeah this sucks.

Dick shakes his head and shrugs going back to focusing on the project.

Dick: lets see starting with pot number 15 ah okay. so her story starts with... women being enslaved. 

have narrator name the pots in the corner as he goes.

Dick: pot 13 okay so brutality and other things led to escape attempts.

dick: pot 11 but it seems every attempt fails. 

dick: pot 9 so in desperation they build something?

dick: pot 7 this part is cracked but it almost looks like its.... wonderwoman? huh? how do you build a person???

dick: pot 5. it fails. that tracks. but it looks like it got left alone by the men so thats good i guess?

dick: pot 3. who are these old guys? looks like praying. 

dick: pot 1. this is so cracked. who in the world is who. is that a heart or is a peice just missing....

dick checks the time

dick: welp time for me to head back to school anyway.

Dick walks out of the gotham museum. 

end of issue 9