Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #122, and Shadow of the Bat #90

[ozaline]

During No Man's Land Batman notices that the neon lights are still on in Chinatown, and attracting people to their sex trade even with the rest of Gotham bereft of power. He finds Lynx the only surviving member of the Ghost Dragons gang wiped out by a coalition of gangs and shows her the reason why...













Eventually she picks the wrong man's pocket which leads to her current circumstances.















Lynx insists that they go back for the Girl but Batman tells her that's not feasible and so she gives him instructions to take her to her doctor.






When they return they find Jade Faced Wu dead, pushed from the building, and signs that the slaves revolted. They also see some of those slaves acting as pallbearers for a tiny casket.

Lynx is told that Mei was inspired by her, and instituted the revolt pushing Wu out the window, but that she was killed. Before she died she asked her Grandpa if she was as brave as the one-eyed warrior, but didn't get to hear his reply that Mei was without equal.



Larry Hama often says that when he explains why he doesn't call himself an artist.

Comments

[kalanyr]

There were very specific editorial directives for No Man's Land I think. They wanted to make it very desperation and survival filled.

But they left themselves an out for why Batman isn't always threatened by a bunch of street gang mooks by limiting access to food, water and sleep so they could handwave it as fatigue.

[q99]

And he did have some nice moments.

All-in-all, I rather liked the approach.

[ozaline]

And to be fair while Batman was looking for a tactical edge he's not the one who needed a Doctor... there's also a part where a mook punches Batman in the back of his head and hurts his hand on the head armor.