Meanwhile in Arkham, Nashton is upset that his plan failed and wailing in his cell. A neighboring cell mate, who is largely obscured behind the steel door of his cell, proposes Nashton a riddle, asking, "Riddle me this. The less you have of me, the more I am worth." Nashton answers, "A friend." They laugh together.

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Bad: The dialogue can be really really outdated, making it hard to take serious at times. I also thought the ending became odd, and nothing like the Bruce we know. Even adding in gun use? Yeah...no. Big Guns • Brothers in Blood • A Darker Shade of Justice • Freefall • The Great Leap • The Hunt for Oracle • A Knight in Bludhaven • The Lost Year • Love and Bullets • Love and War • Mobbed Up • On the Razor's Edge • Renegade • Road to Nowhere • Rough Justice • Ties That Bind • Traps and Trapezes • Year OneThis is the weirdest Batman story I have ever read, and I have very mixed feelings about it (some spoilers ahead). Weeks have passed since the incident and the Gotham City Police Department have noticed Batman's absence. Robin often spends the nights at Commissioner Gordon's office trying to find a clue that would help them locate their missing friend, only to realize something major is happening in Gotham City.

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In the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers' self-censorship arm, the Comics Code Authority. Starlin also drew "The Secret of Skull River", inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5 (July 1974). Scott Snyder may well be this generation's best Batman writer. With stories like " Court of Owls,"" Death of the Family," and " Endgame," Snyder has put an indelible mark on Batman's history. Those later successes almost overshadow his earlier work, Batman: Gates of Gotham, written by Snyder with pencils by Kyle Higgins. It's basically Batman dealing with a crazy cult, as the title says. It starts off simple enough, Batman is captured, they torture him some, and he joins them. However, soon into the book he breaks free of the trance but not fully. Thanks to the city under hell, Robin, and his determination, it's up to Batman to make it out alive and save everyone. Searching his apartment, Batman is inadvertently aided by a cop who shows him a carpet cutting tool which Riddler had murdered the mayor with at the beginning. Realizing this tool is another clue to uncovering the Riddler's master plan, Batman cuts open the rug of the apartment and discovers via a map drawn on the floor underneath that Nashton has stationed car bombs around Gotham. No sooner has he done this than an online video of Nashton's final transmission before his capture and incarceration plays, explaining gleefully that he had cultivated an online following that plans to assassinate mayor-elect Bella Reál. This story also requires you to suspend your disbelief and buy into the fact that an army of homeless people armed with a few guns and a bunch of knives/blunt objects easily defeated the army and a special forces unit by taking potshots at them from the sewers/building windows.Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams are mostly credited for returning Batman to his gothic roots. However, Batman was fully solidified in the late '70s with writers Steve Englehart and Len Wein and artists Marshall Rogers and Walt Simonson. Their 10-issue arc "Strange Apparitions" may not have explicitly redefined Batman, but it sent the message that the darker, more menacing Batman was here to say. After Arkham Asylum, Grant Morrison, along with artist Klaus Janson, contributed the four-issue arc "Gothic" to Legends of the Dark Knight. The re-emergence of the serial killer Mister Whisper has Gotham's underworld on edge. The devil-worshiping murderer terrorizes the mob to the point that they construct a makeshift Bat-signal and beg the Dark Knight for help.