It’s Batman! It can’t be Batman, though, because that’s against the nature of this entire series! Yes, Batman Superman and Wonder Woman are not to be part of this series at all, but that doesn’t mean that Clark Kent, Diana Prince and Bruce Wayne can’t show up.
That’s the deal with week 30 of 52. In the epilogue of Infinite Crisis, the big three of the DCU decided to take a little break from world-changing epic superhero battles and let the rest of the heroes take the lead. Now we pull back the curtains a bit and peek in on Batman, or Bruce Wayne, rather, as he picks up the pieces of his broken life.
“Why’s Batman so grim and dark,” you ask? Well, after a three-page spread of all the hell Batman’s gone through until now, I no longer have to ask that question. Batman wants to rid the world of crime, but when your adversaries are playing by their own wicked set of rules, some of your victories against evil are going to be pyhrric.
Bruce Wayne is in the desert trying to exorcise his demons, while Nightwing and Robin, two of Batman’s greatest proteges, get in some field training. All the while, Nightwing and Robin are curious as to what Bruce is up to. When Robin catches up to him in the desert, I wondered why this billionaire just didn’t find a less dangerous method of dealing with his demons. Couldn’t he try therapy over being attacked by men with ten eyes on their hands?
Bat fans will be distressed at the last thing Bruce says, and it leaves you to wonder if more of his year’s journey is going to be revealed before 52 wraps up. We all know that it’s status quo after this missing year, but who can imagine a Gotham City without a Dark Knight?
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