Battling for Batman’s Cape
So last we checked Batman is still dead, except he obviously isn’t. Instead his numerous second bananas and assorted villains and loons are battling for it instead. And most of it is underwhelming. The new Azrael is exactly what you would expect from DC, and that’s a bad thing. Barbara Gordon or Oracle going to Hong Kong to stop the Calculator is almost as exciting as watching paint dry. Then there are the fun adventures of Jason Todd. Sure Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader was elegiac and somberly beautiful. The Secret Six issue wasn’t even that bad, though the only really good thing about it was Bane’s dignified tribute to Batman and Ragman’s occasional antics “Holy capital punishment!” The problem with having a battle for Batman’s cape is that hardly anyone is fighting and Gotham has a shortage of good guys anyone cares about.
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