In this issue, we are again treated to seeing Gotham react to the new Batmam. It's getting a little old for me to have each book hammer home the point that everyone realizes Dick Grayson is not the real Batman. It makes me worry, to be honest with you, that DC is setting my favorite character up for failure.
Last issue ended with a cliff hanger. Scarecrow was holding a bridge hostage. This issue completely ignores that and I guess we're to assume that Batman resolved the issue without any problems. I would have liked to have seen that, to be honest with you, because this issue starts with Batman getting his butt handed to him. If you're going to show me a loss like that, at least show me a win too.
However, this Bat-butt kicking moment is actually 3 weeks in the future. We then shift to now, and see Batman take down some thugs, on video, smiling the whole time. A great scene follows with Dick and Alfred, and then with Dick and Damien training. The issues closes with Two Face realizing that the man in the Batman costume now isn't the same Batman he's used to.
It's a decent set up issue, but so far, all we've been getting is set up. Battle for the Cowl was a set up for the new status quo. Batman 687 was sort of an epilogue/set up for Dick as Batman. Streets of Gotham #1 was a set up issue... Thank goodness for Morrison. At least Batman and Robin reads like a runaway roller coaster, with the passengers screaming and vomiting on themselves, while being shot at by crazy gunmen.
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