OK, I know that I'm supposed to tremble in horror as we replay "The Dark Knight" and Batman becomes, as the title to next issue says, a public menace. But, really, all I can think is that Bruce is a huge fucking idiot.
At first, I was just annoyed that he left Alfred unguarded at the hospital; after all, if Hush was willing to attack Alfred at the Manor, it stood to reason that he'd be happy to continue attacking him at the hospital. But, now, he looks like all the more of an idiot. He knew that Hush was in the Manor. He presumably knew that Hush knows about the Batcave. (I'm not 100 percent sure of that, since my Bat-history isn't great. But, Hush clearly knew to go look in the Batcave for the database and it stands to reason that Bruce would know if Hush knew about the Batcave.) Bruce also knows that he keeps a DNA-keyed database to all his caches and safe houses in the Batcave. But, it only NOW dawns on him that it could be a problem? Higgins tries to excuse this oversight by focusing on the insanity of the previous few days, with Julia noting for everyone how it's been days since Bruce came to the Batcave. But, seriously, he's that incompetent. More than that, everyone in the Bat-family is that incompetent? Even if they didn't know that Hush was looking for the so-called McGregor database, it stands to reason that one of them would've realized that they needed to do some sort of assessment of the Batcave's security systems after learning that Hush was in the Manor. It seems likely that they would've found the incursion pretty quickly, given that Bruce himself found it almost immediately.
Bruce-as-bumbling-idiot has been a theme of Snyder's run in the DCnU. But, honestly, it's just getting harder and harder to believe, if we're to believe Snyder, that Bruce can even tie his shoes correctly in the morning.
** (two of five stars)
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