From the cover it looks like Catwoman is back in Batman's life. She does indeed make a little cameo appearance in this book. She wants to let Batman know that she's back in town. Also she seems a little jealous, or hurt, about the rumors circulating about Bruce and Jezebelle and Batman and Zatanna. "I leave town for a little while and the witch moves right in. Sounds like she's no longer content to mess around with just your head." I would imagine, with the cancellation of her own title, that we're going to be seeing more of her in Batman's books. At least I hope so. Paul Dini introduces a couple of neat ideas in to this story. The first is that Batman frequents a detectives on-line chat-room to monitor if anyone else has ideas or theories about the cases he's working on. It's called "The Heirs of Dupin", in homage to Edgar Allen Poe. Also he asks a question in this issue that nobody's really asked yet. This issue focus' on a purported serial-killer, new to Gotham. It turns out he just trying to get the Riddler's attention so he can give him a little pay-back. When the Riddler was on the wrong side of the law, the man's wife was killed during one of his robberies. Of course Batman takes him down, but not before he ruffs up the Riddler a bit. And afterwards Batman asks him, "Riddle me this, Eddie. How many more shattered people are out there who owe their miseries to your antics?" So even though he's on the side of angels now, there's still repercussions and reverberations from his previous antics. Shouldn't he still be held responsible for that? I do appreciate Dustin Nguyen's art, however I'm not overly thrilled with it in this book. It just doesn't seem like the right style for these stories. Or . . maybe it's just me. At any rate, next issue we start in to the Return of Hush story-line and we'll have some Batman RIP tie ins. Hopefully then the book will get a little more exciting.
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