Dallas Adult Entertainment: Batman Is Reborn…With A Vengeance
Indeed, Dick Grayson is only seen “in character” as Batman, and Alfred is nowhere to be seen; I wonder whether this series will tend to downplay the behind-the-scenes aspects of Batman in favor of, well, the streets of Gotham. Still, Damian Wayne is given some time in the spotlight, and he’s paired with a most worrying new chess partner: the recently incarcerated Thomas Elliott, alias Hush, who has surgically altered his appearance so that now he looks exactly like Bruce Wayne. I’m interested to see where that particular dynamic takes the series, although I’m guessing it’s nowhere good.
The main thrust of this first issue is that even second-rate villains have become far more creative and disturbing in their schemes, as the formerly low-level bad guy Firefly starts remotely lighting people on fire using explosive nanites. The sight of people spontaneously bursting into flames is a horrific image, and the sight of Batman shooting the victims with a gun (even if it is just loaded with foam capsules) is off-putting in an entirely different way. Dini and Nguyen clearly aren’t afraid of disturbing content and imagery, something confirmed by a scene where this brutal new vigilante rescues a child prostitute.
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