Bill Willingham is still writing this book, thank god, but the pencils are now covered by Steve Scott and Wayne Faucher. And they're doing a pretty good job. They suit this book quite well. This issue, the team is coming to terms with the fact that the rest of the world thought they were dead, after their year in Riverrock. Actually, it only seemed like days for the team, but for the outside world a year had passed. Blue Devil's lost his apartment, Ragman has lost his business and the Shining Knight has seemed to has lost, literally, his Oblivion Bar. It seems that his doorways, that while registering as usefull, are not opening for him. He finally gets in only to find out that someone else now owns his bar and has reopened it. We also find out this issue, that the team is using Joshua Colddrake, "the master of anti-magic" and his realm of the Dark Tower, to store the magical villians that they've captured. Somehow his powers negate the magic they possess and he makes them work off their debts to the universe, until he deems that they've rehabilitated adequately. Miss Fell, the pawn of Johnny Warlock, has served her year and is ready to go home, but that's not actually why Shadowpact came, so they have to leave her here a bit longer. I have a feeling this one's going to come back to bite them. They also find out that a memorial has been constructed in their honor. Finally, a dark entity arises from the catacombs of Gotham. It's a presence that has been sleeping in the bedrock, literally, for 1000's of years. He's calling himself Doctor Gotham. What's he's planning to do, hasn't been determined yet. But it can't be good.
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