Batman

• Title: Batman #6
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• Writer: Tom King
• Artist: David Finch

In the final issue of the relaunched series’ opening arc, Batman must deal with the deteriorating mental state of Gotham Girl who struggles to understand and deal with her partner’s recent demise. A super-human with a thin grip on reality (she continues to talk to Gotham as if he is still present) but who is still continuing to serve the city and dispense fair justice makes for an unusual problem for Batman to solve.

Although the comic’s solution to this brings up several logical and logistical questions which put Batman’s secret identity at risk in public (both in his discussions with Alfred and in choosing to remove his cowl on a rooftop where any number of people, or satellites, might see), the emotion of the plot is quite strong and deals with Bruce Wayne’s own loss without delving the comic into grim and gritty territory or relying on the overused flashbacks of that night in crime ally.

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• Title: Batman #4
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• Writer: Tom King
• Artist: David Finch

The discovery of the bodies of 27 dead soldiers lead Batman down a dark path which will fill-in the truth about Gotham’s newest super-heroes Gotham and Gotham Girl and their origins as part of Amanda Waller‘s Suicide Squad. Solving one mystery, how Waller’s plan to help Gotham using the Psycho-Pirate and Dr. Strange backfired, leaves an entirely new problem for Batman to face: how to deal with a murderous unhinged super-being looking to stop the city he’s sworn to protect from ever hurting another one of its citizens.

As easy as it is for Batman to find Task Force X’s secret Gotham bunker it’s going to be that much harder dealing with the mess Waller has left in his lap. While Gotham Girl appears to not be a danger to anyone (at least not yet), Gotham is a loaded gun Hugo Strange has turned on the city all to facilitate his own escape.

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