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Regarding BATMAN (2016) #57

Tom King’s “Beasts of Burden” concludes with a blistering blast of Bat-payback that’s more savage than the bite or bluster of any blizzard. Because what makes Batman’s actions here even colder than the snow-smothered Russian landscape through which he trudges (to exact vengeance upon KGBeast for the bullet he placed across Dick Grayson’s brain) is …

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Regarding BATMAN (2016) #56

Issue 56 begins as 55 ended, with a BANG! This time it’s banging on a door in snow-smothered Mother Russia, as opposed to the rifle bang that recently put a bullet across Nightwing’s noggin. But door banging soon begets shotgun banging; the knocker is KGBeast, the shooter is his dear old dad, and elsewhere, in …

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Regarding BATMAN (2016) #55

While Batman and Nightwing melee with mummies mustered by new nemesis Phantom Pharaoh, KGBeast arrives in Gotham City with a checklist that culminates in, well, you’ll just have to read and see it for yourself. It’s the kind of thing that’s big, but also isn’t, as we all know there’s no way it sticks, and …

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