Regarding BATMAN (2016) #60

“It’s Batman,” a grizzled Harvey Bullock gruffly tells a frazzled Jim Gordon of our increasingly unhinged hero’s savage assaults on Mr. Freeze, KGBeast, Bane, and, well, Jim Gordon. “Anything’s possible.”

Gordon doesn’t want to believe his friend has fallen this far off the deep end; across Gotham City’s rooftops, Batman brazenly brutalizes one Rogues Gallery goon after another for answers about The Penguin’s claim that Bane is running the entire town from a secret throne in the bowels of Arkham Asylum.

Beneath Wayne Manor, meanwhile, Alfred Pennyworth and Oswald Cobblepot discuss poetry and Oswald’s poor, murdered Penny over tea and sardines; Bane sought to assassinate the former and now needs to neutralize the latter, and we all know how far Santa Prisca’s Patron Saint of Back-Breaking will go to achieve his wicked ends.

You can read my review at Batman On Film!

Regarding BATMAN (2016) #59

Quack is wack! Or is it? You know things are going badly in a Batman comic when The Penguin is the only character you’re certain is telling the truth.

Bane is allegedly running things from the bowels of Arkham Asylum, but he cowers and communicates like a frightened child and literally begs for his mommy as Batman lays into him with everything he’s got. Is this what Bane needs the world to believe is all that remains of the Devil of Santa Prisca, or is there really more to this mystery than meets the eye?

Batman doesn’t care. And it only gets worse from there.

You can read my review at Batman On Film!

Regarding BATMAN (2016) #58

As Oswald Cobblepot waddles through the wake of a devastating loss, Batman digs more deeply into the mystery of who’s dismantling his family and life. Will these old adversaries discover they have more in common these days than identities inspired by things with wings?

You can read my review at Batman On Film!