When I first picked up this book, I couldn't for the life of me, remember what the story was about in the first issue. It took me about half way through the book to figure out what was going on. Luthor and Wayne were both going after some defense contracts. On their way out of the building, they were attack by a Waynetech robot. At first they thought it was after Bruce, but it soon became apparent that it was actually after Lex. Long story short, Bruce had someone working for him that was feeding Lex secrets. Lex had him killed. What Lex didn't know though, was that he was the pilot to this robot. Somehow when he died a bit of his cerebral impulse got stuck in the cortex of the robot. Essentially the robot thought that he was the man. So he wanted to exact his vengeance on Luthor for killing him. Luthor escapes, the robot escapes, and Batman is left wanting better weapons. Eventually Batman does track him down though, at a waste facility, trying to feed itself radioactive waste. This time Batman doesn't fight him though. He just uses an overriding command from Waynetech and ejects the cortex. He doesn't feel very good about this though. And the issue ends with him going to pay a visit to Lex. Good story by Andy Diggle. And fantastic art by Whilce Portacio. We now have 4 books with this concept: JLA Classified, JSA Classified, Superman Confidential, and Batman Confidential. But that's ok. I like the idea of having an outlet to tell a story from anywhere in these characters rich histories. Plus you can use different characters on different story arcs. Very cool concept. I hope they all stick around.
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