So the restructuring of the Batman Family must have played into this title being so long in coming as a solo. Issue #0 is our teaser. The title is still a few months from launching, but we just know Batman had to check out this new player with his family’s motif that has taken to Gotham’s streets. That is what this issue is about. It brings the Detective Comics stories into the core and sets up what Bruce Wayne thinks of the new Batwoman.
We watch Bruce basically stalk Kathy Kane to see if she is this Batwoman that has been seen in Gotham. There is the dual page storytelling that J.H. Williams III seems to like. I can be disconcerting for the reader. Not sure I like it myself, but the story is good so I handle it. I am disappointed in the art. I dislike Kathy looking like a Jokerized female Batman. The harshness is not nice to look at to me. I am not asking for the typical glamorized look, but it just looks grotesque to me.
Bruce does his thing and we get a nice look at the new defender of the weak in Gotham. Whether she will get funding and a permit from the Batman Incorporated empire is unclear. Sorry, the idea of Batman as a business tickles me. This is just a nice setup for the title to come.
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