The Tower
Part 6 of 12
I'm starting to think that 12 parts to tell this story is too long. This issue, as the last couple have been, feels like a morsel of story stretched out. In the last issue, Psycho Pirate, the villain that is using mind control to sedate the patients in Arkham Tower, fainted and the patients all broke free and went wild. Well Psycho Pirate wakes up and hypnotizes the patients again and the higher ups blame a "gas leak" on everything. Yeah, not much story to fill and issue. There is a weird tangent where the Bat gang go and bust up a drug bust that's going on with The Party Crashers. No, I don't know who the Party Crashers are. Here's a line of dialogue that Batwoman says: "One of them is Siphon, Cass. Siphon worked for the Party Crashers. Post-sorcery." What does that even mean? Cass is Cassandra Cain, aka Batgirl. I had to look that up. Why are there so many Bat people? I'm guessing the argument is that Batman is so popular, why not make heroes from his world? I kind of doubt any of the non-Batman books sell very well, though, especially the Batowmen books. As for the backup story: the boy is working for The Penguin but betrays him and gets sent back to Arkham. I'm truly baffled by this backup story and can't even fathom where it's going or what the point of it is. *
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