When the Dark Knight himself, Batman, appeared seemingly out of nowhere in Lively yesterday, social media went wild in Sudbury.
Batman (or more accurately Brampton Batman, a.k.a. Stephen Lawrence, was on his way to the City with the Heart of Gold for the Timmins Comic Con when he stopped in Lively to fill up his gas tank — the gas tank of the Batmobile, no less.
Predictably, a man clad in an impeccable Batman costume driving a vehicle that looks like it leapt off a movie screen or out of the pages of a comic book drew a crowd.
Batman chatted with folks at the gas station and posed for photos before jumping back into the driver's seat with a sweep of his cloak and vanishing into the afternoon.
Sudbury.com reached out to the Batman about his stop in the Nickel City. The Dark Knight said he very much enjoyed his visit, as brief as it was.
"I was in Sudbury, enjoyed it. Landed in Lively, was greeted warmly," Batman said.
In the comics, Batman is not just a crime fighter, but also considered the "World's Greatest Detective." Sudbury.com's sleuthing to uncover his identity impressed the Brampton Batman.
"Now, how did you find out all of that? Time to use the Internet and find out," he wrote to us.
Just another day in the Nickel City.
