Showcase: The Clockwork Hero
by Christine Nightstar 
In the basement beneath a busy Gotham City deli, a highly advanced, human-like clockwork man built in the mid-nineteenth century is disturbed from his century-long sleep. Trenton “Ticks” Avery soon becomes one of the Deltonio family, even as he also begins to discover that his creator had built in amazing mechanisms allowing him to evolve physically, mentally, and emotionally. And with some of these new abilities Ticks inadvertently becomes Gotham’s newest crime-fighter, Clockwork. But with newfound fame comes danger to his adoptive family, even as an old villain called the Clock seeks him as a prize! Guest starring Batman and Platinum of the Metal Men!
Batman: Future Imperfect
by PDebord 
When the Joker steals a series of seemingly defunct scientific devices, Batman can only puzzle over the mystery at first. The pieces finally come together when the Clown Prince of Crime obtains the emerald energies of the Green Lanterns, using it to search for a world without a Batman! And as the Caped Crusader follows after him, Batman instead finds himself in a future world too dark even for the Joker, with a grim and gritty Dark Knight of its own!