I think we've discovered the new team to beat, creatively, when it comes to Batman. This team-up of Grant Morrison and Tony Daniel, is going to go down in history with some of the greats. Loeb and Lee, Moench and Aparo, Grant and Breyfogle, Starlin and Aparo, Miller and Mazzucchelli, Moench and Newton, Englehart and Rogers . . . . just to name a few. The stuff they're doing on this book is just fantastic. This issue we finally get the third man. The story started out a few issues ago, where these 3 bad cops basically went over the edge. They started dressing up like Batman and exacting their own brand of vigilante justice. Batman took down 2 of them, but he knew there was going to be a third. He shows up at the police station looking for Commissioner Vane, not knowing that Gordon is back at the post now. With the Commish being held hostage on the roof, of course Batman has to swoop in and try to save the day. But as Batman says, or thinks, "Any idiot can dress like a bat. But this one is trained . . motivated . . dangerous." And this guy seems to be ready for him. While he's trying to save Jim, he gets shot square in the chest. Of course he has his armor on, but still, the force of the blast is more than a normal human body is built for. So it starts to knock him unconscious. But there's 2 more complications. One . . . he also shoots Jim square in the chest, and I'm sure he's not wearing the type of armor Batman is. Secondly . . . as he's passing out . . . Bruce realizes that he's also going in to cardiac arrest. So is this the end of the Batman? And why does he envision what looks like Bat-Mite on the final page? This book, really, couldn't get any better. This run of Grant's . . . going on 20 issues now . . . is going to go down as one of the best the Batman history. At least that's my opinion.
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