I gotta say, I wasn't really looking forward to reading this issue. Only, because I wasn't a huge fan of the original Red Rain storyline. It was ok. I'm just not a big vampire type of guy. Plus I know, when all is said and done, that this issue isn't really going to bring us any closer to finding Ray. But sometimes the trip is just as important as the destination. I do like that Kelley Jones actually did the artwork for this issue, and cover. But, as I said, after reading it, this was just a quick stop on our Challengers trip. Actually, you could take the Challengers frames out of the book, and this would be a self contained Red Rain story-line. Basically, Dick Grayson is searching for Batman. Batman's been turned in to a vampire, but is still using, his now literal, appearance to scare and hold Gotham at peace. He still considers it his town. But Dick can't get past the fact that he took his parents away from him. Barbara Gordon has survived a recent attack from the Bat, so Dick asks her out to try to get some information from her. Sensing what he's really after, she turns in to a vampire and tries to take him out. Instead, Dick ends up shoving a stake through her heart. But, from the little information he did get from her, he is able to figure out that the Batman is somewhere under Gotham. He goes to confront him. He finds him sleeping. As he's ready to plunge a stake through his heart, our Challengers show up and try to dissuade him from becoming that which he hunts. But the Batman uses the distraction to turn him in to just that. The Challengers take off for the next world, Gotham by Gaslight, and the final page is a Kelley Jones spread of the new vampiric Dynamic Duo. "Together. Forever." It was a decent issue. It just didn't really accomplish anything. Other than showing us another of the 52 universes. Number 43 to be exact.
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