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scans_dailyIn issue #1067, representatives of that family'd made their next move in Gotham City - the purchase of land rights in the city's Narrows, the burning of buildings thereon, and the taking of people therein.
Bruce Wayne, hearing about the last two as they were happening, drove off towards the Narrows.
Batman, above the fray of the Narrows, leapt into it. He grappled with the Orgham agents in issue #1068, fought an even enough fight until he was poisoned.
The situation was in the Orghams' favor, then - until Harvey Dent (forcibly pulled into the Orghams' orbit back in issue #1063) gave himself over to Two-Face.
Two-Face drove to a darkened destination.
He'd come expecting the ex-Arkham-staff-member Dr. Joy (a psychologist, but also probably the first " Doctor " he thought of) from Arkham City: Order of the World..
.. and found instead that mini's Ten-Eyed Man.
Issue #1069 opened on that man in fine Arkham City form, having seen the " worms " introduced into Batman and having plucked them out of him.
Under Two-Face's gun, the Ten-Eyed Man played his fingers over Batman's psyche - until his hand was caught.
(The seeming contradiction between " hands " and the injury to one of them the Ten-Eyed Man suffered in Order of the World was explained with another implicit expansion of his abilities.)
The Orghams entered as Two-Face exited.
Batman, partially fixed by the Ten-Eyed Man, slipped the Orghams' grasp and stumbled back to Jim Gordon (and Harvey Bullock)'s private detective agency.
Three days later, police commissioner Renee Montoya worried about those fires that'd burnt - thought that they weren't just normal Gotham crazy, that they were indicators of something coming.
(That tower's what the Orghams were having built over the destroyed Arkham Asylum in issue #1066.)
In the evening, Jim Gordon and Batman were on opposite sides of a door.
Jim'd done a little more to fix Batman up, told him that Barbara (Oracle) had something to talk to him about - and worried.
He reflected on that familiar situation.
Batman went to meet Oracle, who was thinking about there being a definite pattern underlying the recent goings-on in Gotham.
(Narratively, she was bringing the backstory talk of patterns from 2022's Detective Comics Annual into the present day, into Batman's part of the story.)
She'd connected the " substation fire " from earlier in the week with the power substation Batman'd fought the Orgham agent Gael Tenclaw at in issue #1066, the one Victor Fries (Mr. Freeze) had been working out of, the one that'd been graced by Gael because he'd been searching for Freeze.
" I've got a Batgirl down there as we speak.
" Just a reconnoiter.. collecting information and data on just how large a network Freeze has built. "
' There are worse things to run into than Freeze. '
(This is what the Orghams're doing with the missing people - and that's amnesiac Lian Harper, the Cheshire Cat, elegantly looped into this story.)
(And that's Solomon Grundy, whose appearance is a lovely usage of a point of continuity to create organic, unexpected plot development - Solomon Grundy's been established as hanging out underground in Gotham, so any plot involving underground work in Gotham has an even chance of him ambling into it.
Pagecount's from January 2023's Detective Comics #1068 is 3, bringing the total pages posted here to 7 of 22, and 7 & a little over 3/10ths of 22 from February 2023's Detective Comics #1069.
Writing's Ram V.
Art on #1068's Ivan Reis and Rafael Alberquerque. On #1069, it's Dexter Soy, Stefano Raffele, and Miguel Mendonça.
Colors on #1068're Dave Stewart - on #1069, they're Adriano Lucas.
Letters on both're Ariana Maher.)
Bruce Wayne, hearing about the last two as they were happening, drove off towards the Narrows.
Batman, above the fray of the Narrows, leapt into it. He grappled with the Orgham agents in issue #1068, fought an even enough fight until he was poisoned.
The situation was in the Orghams' favor, then - until Harvey Dent (forcibly pulled into the Orghams' orbit back in issue #1063) gave himself over to Two-Face.
Two-Face drove to a darkened destination.
He'd come expecting the ex-Arkham-staff-member Dr. Joy (a psychologist, but also probably the first " Doctor " he thought of) from Arkham City: Order of the World..
.. and found instead that mini's Ten-Eyed Man.
Issue #1069 opened on that man in fine Arkham City form, having seen the " worms " introduced into Batman and having plucked them out of him.
Under Two-Face's gun, the Ten-Eyed Man played his fingers over Batman's psyche - until his hand was caught.
(The seeming contradiction between " hands " and the injury to one of them the Ten-Eyed Man suffered in Order of the World was explained with another implicit expansion of his abilities.)
The Orghams entered as Two-Face exited.
Batman, partially fixed by the Ten-Eyed Man, slipped the Orghams' grasp and stumbled back to Jim Gordon (and Harvey Bullock)'s private detective agency.
Three days later, police commissioner Renee Montoya worried about those fires that'd burnt - thought that they weren't just normal Gotham crazy, that they were indicators of something coming.
(That tower's what the Orghams were having built over the destroyed Arkham Asylum in issue #1066.)
In the evening, Jim Gordon and Batman were on opposite sides of a door.
Jim'd done a little more to fix Batman up, told him that Barbara (Oracle) had something to talk to him about - and worried.
He reflected on that familiar situation.
Batman went to meet Oracle, who was thinking about there being a definite pattern underlying the recent goings-on in Gotham.
(Narratively, she was bringing the backstory talk of patterns from 2022's Detective Comics Annual into the present day, into Batman's part of the story.)
She'd connected the " substation fire " from earlier in the week with the power substation Batman'd fought the Orgham agent Gael Tenclaw at in issue #1066, the one Victor Fries (Mr. Freeze) had been working out of, the one that'd been graced by Gael because he'd been searching for Freeze.
" I've got a Batgirl down there as we speak.
" Just a reconnoiter.. collecting information and data on just how large a network Freeze has built. "
' There are worse things to run into than Freeze. '
(This is what the Orghams're doing with the missing people - and that's amnesiac Lian Harper, the Cheshire Cat, elegantly looped into this story.)
(And that's Solomon Grundy, whose appearance is a lovely usage of a point of continuity to create organic, unexpected plot development - Solomon Grundy's been established as hanging out underground in Gotham, so any plot involving underground work in Gotham has an even chance of him ambling into it.
Pagecount's from January 2023's Detective Comics #1068 is 3, bringing the total pages posted here to 7 of 22, and 7 & a little over 3/10ths of 22 from February 2023's Detective Comics #1069.
Writing's Ram V.
Art on #1068's Ivan Reis and Rafael Alberquerque. On #1069, it's Dexter Soy, Stefano Raffele, and Miguel Mendonça.
Colors on #1068're Dave Stewart - on #1069, they're Adriano Lucas.
Letters on both're Ariana Maher.)
Tags:
- char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon,
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: jim gordon,
- char: lian harper,
- char: question/renee montoya,
- char: solomon grundy/cyrus gold,
- char: two-face/harvey dent,
- creator: adriano lucas,
- creator: dave stewart,
- creator: dexter soy,
- creator: ivan reis,
- creator: rafael albuquerque,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: detective comics
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