Batman #684

Another beautiful cover done by Alex Ross. Not “The Dawning of a New Batman” as I hoped. It was still a build up to which I question how long is this going to be dragged on?

More foreshadowing of Grayson forced to driving the Batmobile after his motorcycle is stolen. Gordon and Bullock working with what they got, as stating “He’s not Batman”. Yet.

The story was a straight forward fallout of what happened in Nightwing’s book. With a criminal running around in a Two-Face stocking looking for diamonds an actress that was disfigured by Harvey in a previous issue kept, in a wrecked theater, which was during the quake of No Man’s Land as I took the reference.

Overall, nice read, but until the defining moment of someone picking up the cape and cowl happens I don’t think I’ll be following the series.