Batman #660 - DC

I think we have one more issue, and then this Grotesk storyline will be wrapped up. I like John Ostrander, but it bothers me when the story has to be explained to the readers. The rest of this book is interesting, but the whole story, so far, is explained in the conversation between Batman and Gordon, in the final few pages.

Batman : "The guards were killed by a yakuza calling himself Johnny Karaoke. He travels with four young and lethal female bodyguards he calls his Geisha Grrls." "Strane, however, was killed by Grotesk who I now believe to be the "late" Dr. Wayne Franklin. Jaqui Tremayne dated him and stole his I-Gore plans for Mimic." "Recommend Franklin's body be exhumed for a DNA test. If, as I suspect, the body isn't Franklin, then it raises the question . . . . whose body is it?"

Gordon : "I've learned Franklin's parents were '60s radicals in a group that included Grotesk's other victim - George Williamson." "The group pulled a bank robbery and a security guard was killed. They all disappeared back into the middle class. Williamson's recent bank records suggest he was blackmailed."

Batman : "Lucido was a local loan shark, and Karaoke said he "underwrote" I-Gore's development. The Russian mafia boss, Rerun, acts like franklin owed him money too."

Gordon : "My god! Was Franklin insane enough to borrow money from all those rival sources?! How was he planning on pulling that off?"

Batman : "By faking his own death. But something obviously went wrong. Franklin . . . Grotesk . . . is talking about getting "justice". Somebody tried to kill him. It would explain his condition." "Perun thinks Franklin's sister Amina knows more than she's saying. Maybe she does. She still at Dr. Thompkins' clinic?"

Gordon : "No she's working the graveyard shift over at St. Eligius."

So . . . what more is there for the reader to figure out? That pretty much sums of the last couple issues. We then see Perun and his goons storm St. Eligius, hold Amina at gunpoint, and then Batman comes crashing in and tells Perun "Prepare to bleed!". So now that the whole stories been explained to us, what else is there to do, but wrap the whole thing up? I'm kind of disappointed with the way the whole thing unfolded this issue.