Everything Starts To Come Together...
This series is EPIC! I love it. It's filled with everything you need for a successful Batman comic! First of all Batman's a badass as usual, there are new deadlier and actually interesting villains, and it has a suburb great plot! The plot makes you dying to read the next installment of the series! But anyways after having not having written a review written in over around 4 months (very very sorry about that) here is my review for Batman #3!
The Plot: The issue begins in Gotham in 1992, in the wintertime with Alan Wayne, Bruce's great, great grandfather, running through the streets screaming for help. Two policemen stop him and ask him what's the matter and he starts ranting and raving about the thirteenth hour and how there our nests in his home and "they"' are coming for him. The policemen then start talking about what to do with him ,with their backs turned, when Alan Wayne jumps down a nearby manhole. Inside, he sees a train coming and puts his head out in front of it saying, "I will tell you where he will be!" Now, in the present day, Batman inside the train tunnels interrogates a man named Luka Volt who is the leader of a Gotham ranch of the Ukranian mob who "control" the underground train tunnels. Batman is interrogating him asking him if he has seen any kind of dark prowler passing by since Bruce was attacked by the assassin Talon in Wayne Tower but since there is no security footage of him, Batman assumes he is using the train tunnels.Volt's men attack but Batman easily outsmarts them and takes them out by putting a strong magnet on a passing train that pulls their metal masks into the train.Batman then asks Volt one more time and Volt tells the truth, saying that he really hasn't seen any "owl man". Later, in the batcave, Bruce asks Alfred if any of his ancestors died mysteriously since Talon said when attacking Bruce how he loved killing Waynes. Alfred tells Bruce that about his great, great grandfather Alan who had an obsession with owls towards the end of his life. He says that he died though not unusually, just fell into a manhole and drowned in a gotham sewer. Bruce then go's to visit Lincoln, the man running for Gotham mayor, in the hospital. Lincoln tells Bruce that he has been getting threats that seem connected with owls, but doesn't take them seriously. Bruce then suits up as Batman and having a theory, knowing that the thirteenth floor was never used back in Alan Wayne's time, just an empty floor, pays a visit to the fourteenth floor of Wayne Tower and cuts a hole in the ground that sends him down into the thirteenth. Batman finds Talon's lair on this floor with all of his equipment and a group photo of a bunch op people wearing owl masks. Batman then visits the thirteenth floor of each building established in the fund of Alan Wayne's name and find's a lair every time. He then visits then latest building built and while walking through accidentally hits a tripwire that blows up the the building while Talon and an owl on his shoulder watch from a distance.
Good Parts of this issue:
- The cover!(obviously)
- The shocking revelation that I bet nobody saw coming that all these lairs were right underneath Batman's nose this whole time!
- The epic cliffhanger!
- The strange introduction that shows that Bruce's other ancestors knew about the Court of Owls also!
Bad Parts of this issue:
- I would say that there is barely any action in this issue, but since it had such a terrific plot i'm am very okay if there was no action.
This series continues to amaze me in incredible ways with great storytelling and definitely shows why this series is the best of all of the new 52!
5 out of 5 stars!!
Pick it up to see Batman figure what's been under his nose this whole time!!!
