The Tower
Part 5 of 12
I haven't mentioned the covers for this event book yet. They've all been painted covers usually dealing with Arkham's inmates. This issue's cover, by Irvin Rodriguez, is just baffling. Who is it even supposed to be? I'm not sure who the editor for this book is, but these covers are epically disappointing. Besides the weird, obtuse cover artwork, the covers all have "Shadows of the Bat" written on them even though the title of the story is "The Tower." I mentioned that before and still have no idea what that's all about. This issue is by far the worst so far. Excellent artist Ivan Reiss has finally left the book, and now we have Max Raynor on art. His stuff isn't terrible, it just pales in comparison to Reiss. Mariko Tamaki wrote this issue as well as the previous four. Unfortunately, her story is just getting even sillier. We learned last issue that the magical cure at Arkham Tower was actually just Psycho Pirate controlling the crazy patients through mind control to make them happy and docile. We get more of that backstory in this issue and learn that Dr. Wear is basically a conman and drug dealer who just happened to be friends with Psycho Pirate from childhood. I wonder if his name was Psycho Pirate in childhood? Even the backstory, "House of Gotham," is falling apart in this issue. There was an orphan at an orphanage that Scarecrow worked at...and now the kid is adopted by Penguin and has to work as his iceburg casino. I thought that perhaps this backstory was going somewhere but it's obviously not. *
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