The Tower
Part 3 of 12
Writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Ivan Reiss are back to do this issue. That's a surprise. I'm curious how long we'll get those two on this book and if it'll get better or worse when they depart. The one problem with this issue is that this story is a bit too slow of a burn. Really, this issue seems ultimately pointless. Batwoman disguises herself as a psychiatrist and gets a job at Arkham Tower to look into what's going on there. Yeah, so? We kind of already went through that in the last issue when she had a job interview. One of the patients at Arkham Tower is The Huntress. I'm assuming The Huntress is, like Batwoman, a superhero in Gotham City. The problem is I have no idea who she is nor why she's in Arkham. I might know who The Huntress is if I had watched the Birds of Prey movie but after five minutes of watching it I decided that it was unwatchable. And remember how the studio figured the reason the movie didn't make that much money was because of the title so they actually changed it the second week it was out? That was weird. As for the backup this week, we get more of the kid whose parents were killed by The Joker. He's now in an orphanage that just happens to be run by Dr. Crane. The boy wakes up in the middle of the night to find Dr. Crane dressed up as Scarecrow doing fear experiments. That was a pretty creepy page. Kind of sad when the backup is more interesting than the main story. **
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