This issue continues on a theme of this series (and Snyder's run on the Bat-books in the DCnU), that Bruce's overconfidence leads to incompetence. In fact, at this point, DC should really change the title of this series to "The Greatest Incompetent Batman Stories Ever Told."
Snyder and Tynion engage in the now officially named pet peeve #3 in this issue, using a character to point out an illogical aspect of the story, as if doing so excuses the presence of said illogical aspect in the first place. Here, it occurs when Julia asks Batman why he never planned for the fact that someone could one day use the 17 ammunition dumps that he has seeded around the city against him. Bruce doesn't have an answer, but I guess we're just supposed to go with it since Julia took on the role of the reader in asking the question in the first place. If so, I would also like Julia to ask why he made the codes to open the dumps so easily reprogrammable, since it seems pretty easy for a villain in the DCnU to get his hands on something that could cause an emp pulse.
I gave last issue two stars because I had hoped that Snyder and Tynion would somehow give us a logical explanation for why Bruce managed to keep these dumps so poorly protected. (I wasn't sure what it could be, but I had hope.) But, we don't get that here. Instead, we get confirmation that he's just dangerously incompetent. At this point, I find myself rooting for the corrupt cops of Gotham to stop him, for the sake of Gotham's citizens.
* (one of five stars)
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