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scans_daily The issue begins with a flashback to five years previously, with Selina showing up at Carmine Falcone's apartment the night he lost the city to the Penguin. After beating up all of his guards, she slashes him across the face "to give him something to remember him by", and walks out the door with a valuable cat statue while gloating about what a loser he'd become...
...Which Carmine seems to have not forgotten, having captured Catwoman a couple of issues ago, and not is determined to have petty revenge on him for brusing his ego half a decade prior. He tells the restrained Selina that her disfiguring him actually taught him a valuable lesson, that she's really just a symptom of a problem the city has. The problem being that unless the city has a protector, then it becomes overrun by freaks like her. Yes, the man who ran Gotham through such indiscriminate violence that the Penguin of all people thought he went too far, considers himself to be the true protector of Gotham City.
Selina naturally considers this entire attitude to be insane, and rightly tells him soon, only for Carmine to smack her in the face, and start yelling that it's time for someone to start putting the bats, cats and other animals back in their cages... at which point Professor Pyg shows up with his new animal-based henchmen to exact his revenge on Falcone. Oops.
Over at Wayne Manor, new addition to the Bat Family Julia Pennyworth (yeah, turns out that she's the preboot character they were bringing back in the Hong Kong arc... yay) is being tended to following the injuries she suffered at the hands of Shen Fang last issue. She apparently has some issues with her father...
Huh, you'd think that Bruce would have more of a reaction to an unrepentant murderer just letting himself into his house whenever he wanted, but from what I've read Jason's many murders apparently isn't considered to be a big deal since the reboot. Evidently all the hostility and disappointment for a Robin that uses/used lethal methods was absorbed by Damian, even though he was attempting to change in order to make Bruce accept him, while Jason has made no such changes while still retaining his daddy issues...
ANYWAY, it seems that Pyg has taken Catwoman and Falcone hostage (yeah, a traditional criminal running afoul of the costumed supervillain crowd due to underestimating them? Should really have borrowed notes from the Black Hand there Carmine), with the press and the police helplessly watching.
Vikki Vale meets Lt. Bard outside the building, and still seems annoyed that Bard didn't just answer her questions without any prompting. It seems that although they know that Pyg has a female hostage, the police are under orders not to just rush in in case she gets hurt... when in actuality, it's Forbes not wanting to provoke Pyg into doing "things" to Falcone in revenge for his betrayal.
Elsewhere, Stephanie has started her career in superheroism after it became apparent that her mum and dad are actively trying to kill her.
Aww, poor Steph! Y'know if Babs was still a librarian this would be a prime opportunity for the two to meet and joing forces... Wait, does Barbara Gordon even have a job in the New 52?
Back with Falcone, Pyg has him strapped to a table and is about to perform amateur surgery on him in revenge for the gangster blowing up his labs. He also is about to sew a dozen cat heads onto Selina when Batman shows up to save the day (yay). Batman unties Selina, who then procedes to start beating up the restrained Carmine, but Bruce points out that since the GCPD are poised to burst into the building they really have to go NOW.
This turns out to be a good idea, as Forbes has heard that Batman is in the building and orders Lt. Bard to storm the building with every avaliable officer he has. Which Bard does... after deliberately waiting for enough time as he figures it'd take Batman to escape. Carmine icily tells the cops that they just missed Batman, but seems oddly resistant to saying that Catwoman was the hostage, saying that the woman hostage the cops saw was just a "petty thief".
A safe distance way, Bruce asks Selina if she's okay, which she admits is the case and then drops some plotbombs on him. It seemed that if anything Bruce has actually been overestimating Falcone all this time, in that although there is some elaborate conspiracy at work here, it isn't one by Carmine's design. She confirms what was implied last week, that some third party invited the Roman back to Gotham from Hong Kong, meaning that he's just a cog in someone else's machine. Batman is kind of disturbed at the idea of a hitherto unseen villain pulling not just his strings but also those of Falcone and his men (this is the same dude that Cluemaster is working for apparently FYI), which isn't helped by the fact that said person might even be watching them have this conversation...
- Overview: Good issue over all, I liked the artwork (sorry to say I'm not a huge March fan) and how the plot appeared to be moving forward in a meaningful way. I'm a bit confused as to how Pyg's new henchmen worked (apparently he just stitched animal heads onto some hired goons or something), but the idea of him being able to effortlessly breeze through Falcone's guards was kind of funny.
I am curious as to a number of things, such as who the main Big Bad is, what exactly is the trouble between Julia and Alfred, and the progression of Stephanie's online wikileaks approach to battling her dad to her going full Spoiler.
Which, judging from the solicits, might be happening in September.
...Which Carmine seems to have not forgotten, having captured Catwoman a couple of issues ago, and not is determined to have petty revenge on him for brusing his ego half a decade prior. He tells the restrained Selina that her disfiguring him actually taught him a valuable lesson, that she's really just a symptom of a problem the city has. The problem being that unless the city has a protector, then it becomes overrun by freaks like her. Yes, the man who ran Gotham through such indiscriminate violence that the Penguin of all people thought he went too far, considers himself to be the true protector of Gotham City.
Selina naturally considers this entire attitude to be insane, and rightly tells him soon, only for Carmine to smack her in the face, and start yelling that it's time for someone to start putting the bats, cats and other animals back in their cages... at which point Professor Pyg shows up with his new animal-based henchmen to exact his revenge on Falcone. Oops.
Over at Wayne Manor, new addition to the Bat Family Julia Pennyworth (yeah, turns out that she's the preboot character they were bringing back in the Hong Kong arc... yay) is being tended to following the injuries she suffered at the hands of Shen Fang last issue. She apparently has some issues with her father...
Huh, you'd think that Bruce would have more of a reaction to an unrepentant murderer just letting himself into his house whenever he wanted, but from what I've read Jason's many murders apparently isn't considered to be a big deal since the reboot. Evidently all the hostility and disappointment for a Robin that uses/used lethal methods was absorbed by Damian, even though he was attempting to change in order to make Bruce accept him, while Jason has made no such changes while still retaining his daddy issues...
ANYWAY, it seems that Pyg has taken Catwoman and Falcone hostage (yeah, a traditional criminal running afoul of the costumed supervillain crowd due to underestimating them? Should really have borrowed notes from the Black Hand there Carmine), with the press and the police helplessly watching.
Vikki Vale meets Lt. Bard outside the building, and still seems annoyed that Bard didn't just answer her questions without any prompting. It seems that although they know that Pyg has a female hostage, the police are under orders not to just rush in in case she gets hurt... when in actuality, it's Forbes not wanting to provoke Pyg into doing "things" to Falcone in revenge for his betrayal.
Elsewhere, Stephanie has started her career in superheroism after it became apparent that her mum and dad are actively trying to kill her.
Aww, poor Steph! Y'know if Babs was still a librarian this would be a prime opportunity for the two to meet and joing forces... Wait, does Barbara Gordon even have a job in the New 52?
Back with Falcone, Pyg has him strapped to a table and is about to perform amateur surgery on him in revenge for the gangster blowing up his labs. He also is about to sew a dozen cat heads onto Selina when Batman shows up to save the day (yay). Batman unties Selina, who then procedes to start beating up the restrained Carmine, but Bruce points out that since the GCPD are poised to burst into the building they really have to go NOW.
This turns out to be a good idea, as Forbes has heard that Batman is in the building and orders Lt. Bard to storm the building with every avaliable officer he has. Which Bard does... after deliberately waiting for enough time as he figures it'd take Batman to escape. Carmine icily tells the cops that they just missed Batman, but seems oddly resistant to saying that Catwoman was the hostage, saying that the woman hostage the cops saw was just a "petty thief".
A safe distance way, Bruce asks Selina if she's okay, which she admits is the case and then drops some plotbombs on him. It seemed that if anything Bruce has actually been overestimating Falcone all this time, in that although there is some elaborate conspiracy at work here, it isn't one by Carmine's design. She confirms what was implied last week, that some third party invited the Roman back to Gotham from Hong Kong, meaning that he's just a cog in someone else's machine. Batman is kind of disturbed at the idea of a hitherto unseen villain pulling not just his strings but also those of Falcone and his men (this is the same dude that Cluemaster is working for apparently FYI), which isn't helped by the fact that said person might even be watching them have this conversation...
- Overview: Good issue over all, I liked the artwork (sorry to say I'm not a huge March fan) and how the plot appeared to be moving forward in a meaningful way. I'm a bit confused as to how Pyg's new henchmen worked (apparently he just stitched animal heads onto some hired goons or something), but the idea of him being able to effortlessly breeze through Falcone's guards was kind of funny.
I am curious as to a number of things, such as who the main Big Bad is, what exactly is the trouble between Julia and Alfred, and the progression of Stephanie's online wikileaks approach to battling her dad to her going full Spoiler.
Which, judging from the solicits, might be happening in September.
