The thing I like the most about this Battle for the Cowl story-line . . I'm kind of getting my monthly fix of Batman related stories. Right now . . I'm kind of missing that. This issue catches us up on what's going on with the seedier side of Gotham. Black Mask . . if it really is the Black Mask, the original I mean . . the Black Mask is trying to reassert control over Gotham. He's recently blown up Arkham, to free the inmates, and then made the mover to have them all working under him. We find out this issue, from Firefly I think, that the Black Mask has put some kind of chemical into them so he can control them. Not like 'remote control', but rather if they don't do what he asks he can kill them. Poison Ivy decides to burn the chemical out, so she's free. Anyways, the Penguin is so spooked by the Black Mask that he's actually gone to Eddie to ask him to find him . . so he can kill him . . 'eventually'. Eddie runs in to Harley, who's bored and wants something to do, so now . . I guess she's his sidekick. He has to gather information about the Black Mask so he decides to go to the woman who killed him . . Holly. Since Harley and Holly are still room-mates, she's not so hard to find. Since Ivy is free now, she also returns to Harley's apartment. There's no love lost between Ivy and Eddie, but it is nice to see all the girl's back together. We also find out that Selina is out there trying to aid in the fight to restore order to Gotham. She's been actively working with Oracle and Nightwing. But she's gets thrown off a roof-top by Jason Todd, who's running around in a Batman costume killing criminals. Batman is another character who has a great supporting cast . . both in character and sheer numbers. There's plenty of characters . . enough to fill a couple of books a month. Which is kind of where this particular issue comes into play. It gives us a bit of a closer look at some of the players in Gotham. I thought that Chris Yost and Pablo Raimondi did a great job with this issue. It was nice seeing all these characters in action again. Like I said, I'm starting to miss my monthly Batman fix. Hopefully all of that will be rectified soon. It won't be the same, but . . it's close.
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