Detective Comics #976: Man, Tynion is really playing a long game here. First, I love Bruce admitting Batgirl was right. He so rarely admits fault, but it's important he do so here, as he uses this fault as justification for shutting down the Knights program. Tynion goes beyond that, though. Bruce tells Tim he has Batgirl monitoring the city so he can talk to Tim, and it doesn't take an empath to draw the same conclusion as Tim, that Barbara has raised in Bruce's esteem over Tim. Tim responds as you'd expect an increasingly traumatized teenager would, fleeing the Batcave in a rage. Meanwhile, Kate is getting her revenge by taking over the Colony, creating exactly the sort of peace-keeping force Tim wanted the Knights to be. With Ulysses offering to show Tim his future self's history, it's not hard to see how dangerous these unstable boys feeling the sting of rejection could become. Tynion is possibly showing us the start of Tim following in the footsteps of Jason and becoming an enemy, and it's gripping to watch.
The Wild Storm: Michael Cray #6: One of the challenges of this series is that Cray is essentially unstoppable. As Dr. Shahi suggested, he begins to converse with his parasite here, allowing him even further control over his ability to detonate matter. (As we see with him detonating Curry's manor from the shore, he doesn't even have to touch it anymore.) But, it also means no one really poses that much of a threat; his fight with Aquaman is over in minutes if not seconds. He also continues to fail Trelane, as he refuses to turn over Curry's research to her. Trelane herself acknowledges she probably has to kill him now, as it's the second time he failed to provide her data (after the Flash destroyed his research before Cray could recover it). He seems to know he's on his own at this point, and he weeps over the creature he's becoming. We learn he's going to seek out Jonathan Constantine, who tortures a seer to death to learn more about Cray. It's just hard to know what the outcome is here. If IO and Skywatch have set Cray loose, where does he go from here?
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