I cover a lot of different titles, with some particular attention to the previous runs of "Spider-Man 2099" and "Nova." Welcome back, Richard! Until next time, Miguel.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Batman and Robin #16 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)
I wound up enjoying this issue more than I did last issue, if only because Tomasi gave us a pretty tightly scripted battle between Damian and "Batman" and avoided some of the "Death of the Family" baggage in the process. I actually thought that it was Batman for most of this issue, given that it made sense that Joker could've injected him with a Joker serum after the events of "Batman" #16. The revelation that it wasn't him didn't do anything to diminish the story, though, since the whole point was to show a devastated and weakened Damian played right to where Joker wanted him. Snyder et al. are certainly playing up this mysterious platter, though this issue doesn't really give us any hints whose head might be in it. Joker does mention the family skeletons being removed from the closet and uses a quote that sounds suspiciously similar to Jack Napier's, "Ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?" quote from the original Batman movie. But, unless it's Jack Nicholson's head, I'm not sure what the connection will be. I guess we'll see.
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