Batman: Detective Comics #1101 – Tom Taylor, Writer; Mikel Janin, Artist
Ray – 9.5/10
Ray: Tom Taylor devoted the first part of his Detective Comics run to an epic globe-trotting adventure about the search for immortality, but that plot has been put on the back burner for now – which means it’s time for a new threat, and one that leans into Taylor’s talent with horror. It kicks off with an action segment that perfectly captures Batman’s work at its most intense. A vessel in Gotham harbor is shocked to find a body in the water – followed by a massive fishing vessel appearing in the fog. The ship is damaged, a woman falls off, and Batman sweeps in to rescue her and discover the horrors on the ship. And what he finds is truly disturbing – a ship full of bodies, many of which seem to have beaten each other to death or died in other disturbing ways. There are no survivors, including one scientist who seems to have killed himself – except for one strange, starving little boy who seems blissfully unaware of the horror around him.
There isn’t much room for anyone else in this issue, except for Oracle who serves as Batman’s eyes in the sky. It grounds the story in every moment of Batman’s search for answers, as he explores the horror show of a ship and pieces together that it wasn’t just the victims’ bodies that were destroyed – it was their minds. Something removed their ability to experience fear, and they had none of the sense of self-preservation they needed to survive. And this plague may be coming to Gotham soon – thanks to a mysterious villain named the Lion. Could this be some twisted inverse of the Scarecrow? A link to the old-school brute villain named Amygdala? Don’t know, but a guest appearance by Mr. Terrific at the end provides one more big twist to the tale. Taylor’s run on Detective has been strong so far, but this issue sets the stakes for this new arc even higher right from the start.
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