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scans_dailyThey, the punk who'd learned how to be Batman from Bruce Wayne and the punk who'd learned how to do magic from John Constantine, fell into themselves from the end of issue #3.
A Talon of the Court of Owls self-constituted Batman, a mystery from Gotham's history, harried them downwards alongside gravity.
Terry's fall took him first through the death of his father and the regret of his mother.
Then came his little brother as Robin.
" This isn't safe for you. "
" Ah jeez. Terry, don't be such a dreg!
The voice dropped Bruce's face to talk about " .. protect[ing] the little children.. from sin.
" The rot is your city.
(It's nice how this and the preceding Neo-Year've just let the tension between Terry's relationship with Dana and Terry's relationship with new character Beam Boonma lie implicit.)
Terry's fall landed him in Kyle's memories (' My psychedelic experience must somehow be bleeding into his. ')
(Paralleling Old John Constantine with Old Bruce is almost certainly the reason the former's in this story.)
Kyle relived learning from John the lessons from issue #1 - the first, then..
" That's a gun you put to your own head. "
The third came as John lay dying:
John stepped out to another end.
Down John went, into the Garden - down came the image of the Court of Owls' Batman, screaming the fear of death into two who'd just relived loss.
Terry, Kyle at his side, stood against what was growing on them.
They awoke at the end of their fall.
The voice's mouths landed in front of them.
(The Garden under Gotham is Green, and those are the missing kids Terry came in search of in those pods.
Writing's Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing. Art's Max Dunbar, colors're Rain Baredo, and letters're Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
Pagecount's 7 and a little more than 7/10ths of 24 from October 2023's Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #4.
Publisher's DC.)
A Talon of the Court of Owls self-constituted Batman, a mystery from Gotham's history, harried them downwards alongside gravity.
Terry's fall took him first through the death of his father and the regret of his mother.
Then came his little brother as Robin.
" This isn't safe for you. "
" Ah jeez. Terry, don't be such a dreg!
The voice dropped Bruce's face to talk about " .. protect[ing] the little children.. from sin.
" The rot is your city.
(It's nice how this and the preceding Neo-Year've just let the tension between Terry's relationship with Dana and Terry's relationship with new character Beam Boonma lie implicit.)
Terry's fall landed him in Kyle's memories (' My psychedelic experience must somehow be bleeding into his. ')
(Paralleling Old John Constantine with Old Bruce is almost certainly the reason the former's in this story.)
Kyle relived learning from John the lessons from issue #1 - the first, then..
" That's a gun you put to your own head. "
The third came as John lay dying:
John stepped out to another end.
Down John went, into the Garden - down came the image of the Court of Owls' Batman, screaming the fear of death into two who'd just relived loss.
Terry, Kyle at his side, stood against what was growing on them.
They awoke at the end of their fall.
The voice's mouths landed in front of them.
(The Garden under Gotham is Green, and those are the missing kids Terry came in search of in those pods.
Writing's Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing. Art's Max Dunbar, colors're Rain Baredo, and letters're Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
Pagecount's 7 and a little more than 7/10ths of 24 from October 2023's Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #4.
Publisher's DC.)
