At some point, I'm going to have to really assess whether I want to give DC money for this series.
I'll try to summarize the issue just to try to make sense of it. Bruce and Catwoman are shaking down some thugs connected to a gang that Bruce believes may be working with Hush, though it's unclear why he brought Catwoman with him on this job. He learns that none of the gangs left standing in Gotham is working with Hush, raising the question of how he's getting his materiel and support. We learn that Killer Croc is looking for Jade (the girl that he, Bard, and Batman saved a few issues ago) and that she's the scion of two Gotham crime families, the Ibanescus and the McKillens. The leader of the Ibanescu family (her uncle, Dragos), essentially sells her to some dude named Mr. Bone; Jade knows Catwoman (though we don't learn how) and Bone has a vendetta against her. Jade is forced to lead him to Catwoman, and we see him poised to strike as this issue ends. Also, the Flamingo appears briefly, because he's trying to get the bounty on Spoiler, and Batgirl drops Bard from a roof-top.
My main problem here is that we seem to randomly be veering from event to event. I get the fact that Snyder and Tynion are telling a long story, but, honestly, they have to put some sort of effort into keeping the narrative coherent from issue to issue. Although, in reality, Batman's life may be the chaotic jumble of events that this series has been so far, it's still draining as a reader to try to follow it. I can barely remember if we know that Batgirl knows that Bard was behind keeping her father imprisoned or whether Catwoman has previously appeared in the series. I just keep wondering why I'm still reading this series, particularly since, as we just saw in the most recent "Batman" issue, it seems like it's going to have little impact on the Bat-verse once it's done.
** (two of five stars)
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