"My physical body may be momentarily impaired -- but my mind's always thinking ahead." Oh, COME ON!
[Sigh.]
All right, I'll try to start with something nice. Daniel does clarify some points in this issue. We learn that Hugh Marder, the scientist allegedly working on cancer research in Wayne Towers, did in fact create a type of Large Hadron Collider. He also has apparently been cloning himself, explaining why the henchmen last issue were willing to commit suicide (though not why he decided to taunt Batman by dressing them in Batsuits). The main purpose of the cloning seems to be to create test subjects, since the Large Hadron Collider is actually some sort of particle accelerator capable of forward time-travel. However, we seem to have the hint that "Mr. Toxic" is actually a future version of Marder, implying that he eventually figures out backward time-travel as well.
I'm actually fine with all these revelations, even though I don't like time-travel stories. They more or less make sense. But, am I really supposed to believe the ending, where Batman is so careless that he's experimenting with radioactive substances in nothing more than a Batsuit? He has a decontamination shower built into the Batcave, but he doesn't have a haz-mat suit? It's not a trivial point, either, since the whole cliffhanger of this issue revolves around the substance on which Bruce is experimenting attacking him. It's just one more example of Daniel screwing up an ending. Just two issues and an annual left...
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