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scans_dailyFollowing Hush breaking into Wayne Manor last week and injecting a whole bunch of fear toxin directly into Alfred's brain, Julia Pennyworth has been leaving messages with Bruce to explain that he's been taken to the hospital to get medical attention (this is after Alfred told her to go to the Batcave for the cure, though she probably thought he was hallucinating). She does finally figure it out though, and wanders down into the "basement" through the grandfather clock in the library...
Meanwhile at Beacon Tower, the Architect (Zachary Gates) has broken into it with a bunch of equally steampunky henchmen, and are now working to seemingly dismantle/destroy it from within. Bruce gets word of this while trying to contact Alfred, only to get word from someone else instead.
Julia tells Bruce to drop what he's doing and go check on Alfred in the hospital, which Bruce says he can't do right now... which Julia takes as well as you'd expect. She tells him that Alfred getting hurt is probably Bruce's fault, and that he NEEDS to be with him, but while Bruce does admit that it is his fault her dad was injured, the Architect is the priority right now.
He explains that the last time the Architect was loose, he killed hundreds of people in a bombing campaign that targetted nightclubs, bridges and skycrapers (Meaning that, yes Gates of Gotham is still canon). Alfred would understand that preventing even more deaths takes precedent in this case, considering the limited timeframe they have.
Back at the Tower, the architect of the building, Andrew, tries to stop the Architect from destroying his "life's work"... not knowing that apparently the designs for the tower were actually run past Gates on the way to the planning office, who made his own "adjustments" to the building. Gates' scheme is now to use a device built into the side of the tower to cause it to fall apart under its own weight, mostly because Gates thinks that the building is really damn unpleasant to look at from an architecture point of view.
With the building swaying in the wind, and no clear layout of the building in mind, Bruce resorts to asking Julia for help.
After getting the surviving construction workers and Andrew to safety, Batman just jumps Gates and demands to know why he's doing this (Note: the Architect's wearing a suit of power armour, that resorted to Dick having to taggle him in high-tension wire before he could stop moving, here Bruce just throws some explosive batarangs at him).
Just as Andrew touchs down safely, Hush steps out of some shadows and kills him, saying that he promised the Architect that he'd do so if he were to escape. And just when Bruce realises that all the clues seem to point to Hush being the culprit of the Big Scheme against the city.
Overview, although there were some nice moments as Bruce and Julia begin to get along, this issue seemed to feel more like a "part two" of the previous one than a purely stand alone story. It felt a touch short and in-complete is what I'm saying. And with Julia seemingly taking Alfred's place as mission control while he's recovering, I think we know who the person in the Bat Cave was in that preview story they published prior to the series starting up.
On the subject of the Architect and Gates of Gotham, it does seem a touch strange to me that GoG has been so carefully wired into the New 52 version of Batman... considering it was originally planned as a Cassandra Cain story, only for DC to tell Scott Snyder to turn it into a Dick Grayson Batman-centric story with Cass as a supporting character. Having the entire story EXCEPT Cass just seems to be a touch strange. Considering she was there due to reasons of plot (the Architect bought a ton of explosives at her neck of the woods, and she followed the trail back to her old neighbourhood).
I know it's kind of flogging a dead horse at this point... it's just that in Future End they featured a cameo of someone wearing a (poorly recoloured) verison of Cass' Black Bat costume in it as part of Batman Incorporated.
Note: I don't blame Scott Snyder or the other Batman Eternal folks for this... it just seems a bit weird that they advertise how they have the approval now to use EVERY single character in the Bat Catelogue for BE... only for Cassandra Cain to be erased via recolouring in a comic that I'm pretty sure is meant to be taking place in the near future.
I don't know, considering an appearance by the Architect apparently was cause for an interview with the creative team several months back, I get a feeling that IF Cass were to reappear, DC would publicise the heck out of it a good couple of months in advance... which seems increasingly unlikely, considering we're nearing the half-way point in the series now.
Meanwhile at Beacon Tower, the Architect (Zachary Gates) has broken into it with a bunch of equally steampunky henchmen, and are now working to seemingly dismantle/destroy it from within. Bruce gets word of this while trying to contact Alfred, only to get word from someone else instead.
Julia tells Bruce to drop what he's doing and go check on Alfred in the hospital, which Bruce says he can't do right now... which Julia takes as well as you'd expect. She tells him that Alfred getting hurt is probably Bruce's fault, and that he NEEDS to be with him, but while Bruce does admit that it is his fault her dad was injured, the Architect is the priority right now.
He explains that the last time the Architect was loose, he killed hundreds of people in a bombing campaign that targetted nightclubs, bridges and skycrapers (Meaning that, yes Gates of Gotham is still canon). Alfred would understand that preventing even more deaths takes precedent in this case, considering the limited timeframe they have.
Back at the Tower, the architect of the building, Andrew, tries to stop the Architect from destroying his "life's work"... not knowing that apparently the designs for the tower were actually run past Gates on the way to the planning office, who made his own "adjustments" to the building. Gates' scheme is now to use a device built into the side of the tower to cause it to fall apart under its own weight, mostly because Gates thinks that the building is really damn unpleasant to look at from an architecture point of view.
With the building swaying in the wind, and no clear layout of the building in mind, Bruce resorts to asking Julia for help.
After getting the surviving construction workers and Andrew to safety, Batman just jumps Gates and demands to know why he's doing this (Note: the Architect's wearing a suit of power armour, that resorted to Dick having to taggle him in high-tension wire before he could stop moving, here Bruce just throws some explosive batarangs at him).
Just as Andrew touchs down safely, Hush steps out of some shadows and kills him, saying that he promised the Architect that he'd do so if he were to escape. And just when Bruce realises that all the clues seem to point to Hush being the culprit of the Big Scheme against the city.
Overview, although there were some nice moments as Bruce and Julia begin to get along, this issue seemed to feel more like a "part two" of the previous one than a purely stand alone story. It felt a touch short and in-complete is what I'm saying. And with Julia seemingly taking Alfred's place as mission control while he's recovering, I think we know who the person in the Bat Cave was in that preview story they published prior to the series starting up.
On the subject of the Architect and Gates of Gotham, it does seem a touch strange to me that GoG has been so carefully wired into the New 52 version of Batman... considering it was originally planned as a Cassandra Cain story, only for DC to tell Scott Snyder to turn it into a Dick Grayson Batman-centric story with Cass as a supporting character. Having the entire story EXCEPT Cass just seems to be a touch strange. Considering she was there due to reasons of plot (the Architect bought a ton of explosives at her neck of the woods, and she followed the trail back to her old neighbourhood).
I know it's kind of flogging a dead horse at this point... it's just that in Future End they featured a cameo of someone wearing a (poorly recoloured) verison of Cass' Black Bat costume in it as part of Batman Incorporated.
Note: I don't blame Scott Snyder or the other Batman Eternal folks for this... it just seems a bit weird that they advertise how they have the approval now to use EVERY single character in the Bat Catelogue for BE... only for Cassandra Cain to be erased via recolouring in a comic that I'm pretty sure is meant to be taking place in the near future.
I don't know, considering an appearance by the Architect apparently was cause for an interview with the creative team several months back, I get a feeling that IF Cass were to reappear, DC would publicise the heck out of it a good couple of months in advance... which seems increasingly unlikely, considering we're nearing the half-way point in the series now.
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Date: 2014-09-04 12:40 pm (UTC)Also, I did not know GoG was supposed to have Blackbat as the main character. Intel?
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Date: 2014-09-04 12:50 pm (UTC)I liked GoG, and I liked how Cass was written in the story... I just kind of regret we didn't get one last solo story from her (by a competant writer and fan) before she vanished into the aether.
No idea who was meant to fill her role in the new, retconned version of GoG though. Considering the story had a subplot of Damian trying to "prove" himself to Cass in the doucheyest way possible (calling her names, getting offended when she questions his competance etc), it does leave a lot of things questions.
Like, if Cass wasn't there, how did the Bat Kids find out about the Architect's South Asian purchase of explosives? Who saved Damian from getting blown up by his own overconfidence? Who did the detective work to replace Dick using Cass' bodyreading ability to deduce some things about the Architect?
I suppose that Jason Todd could have been used (HIS murderous attempts to kill his siblings appear to have been quietly swept under the rug as quietly as Cass' entire character), but still...
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Date: 2014-09-04 01:37 pm (UTC)I don't think it was really meant to be her story, and her story alone, even during this interview, but the most telling quote was this: "Yeah, Cassandra plays an important role in the story. She's not just a sidekick or anything. She has an emotional stake in solving the mystery that is central to the story."
As for the revised GoG, you hit it right on the head. Jason fits the bill:
- The Damian proving himself subplot fits with Jason as the impressee: Tomasi's War of the Robins can be seen as an upgraded, planned version of this.
- The South Asian Semtex deal is easy: Red Hood's been the unofficial core Bat-Family external liaison for a while now, and his mostly out-of-town status plus whatever Rolodex he and Tim are sharing could have taken him there.
- As for the bodyreading thing, Jason's experience in Nanda Parbat, plus his natural Bat-skills would have taught him a lot about gauging the enemy. Of course, it'd be massively less potent than Cass, but that's like differentiating between getting shot in the temple by a shotgun and a snub-nose.
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Date: 2014-09-04 04:41 pm (UTC)it must be where he got this
http://cdn.themetapicture.com/media/funny-Batman-dress-princess-pink.jpg
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Date: 2014-09-04 09:28 pm (UTC)Of course if it IS supposed to be Cass and she's been miscoloured/white-washed that's also par for the course by DC. Onyx, anyone?
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