Almost at the end, Outsider-lovers!
So Batman is making like a bat-eared rock in the moonlight as a glowing Halo hides behind a tree. It's time to learn a valuable lesson about responsibility.
Batman's reaction to Halo "breaking stealth mode"? Shouting at her from the top of his lungs.
Look at the previous panel again. Is there any kind of sound effect associated with Halo's power blasts? In ANY panel? Certainly, no sound came out of the revolutionary's mouth. They didn't hear HER, Batman, they heard you shouting at her. And once they escape from those thorny bushes they've stuck themselves into, you're gonna pay for that mistake.
Here, Batman is finally ready to accept that it's his mistake. Heavy punching always clears the mind.
Ah, see, didn't actually accept responsibility. The reason Batman actually needs a team? Laying blame.
And being the third member of the future Outsiders to get totally pwned by a nameless soldier? Karma in action, baby.
Credit where credit is due department: These guys may be nameless, paper-hat-wearing thugs from a country you've never heard of, but they work fast. Burying Geo-Force faster than Dwayne McDuffie a few pages back, and now making an Ewok pole to carry Batman back to base. They're very efficient.
And Halo? Halo's been told not to do a damn thing. When she broke protocol, she got shouted at. She's not making that mistake again. She'll just watch from the shadows from now on. (Of course, shadows can't really exist in her presence...)
Later, Batman wakes up and he's being straddled by cannibal Elijah Wood from Sin City. Oh wait, it's just Lucius Fox. Well cool! He's the guy Batman wanted to rescue! But what's that he's saying? He didn't really want to be rescued? Stockholm syndrome? Just loving the accomodations since they gave him a plush pillow (Metamorpho's buttocks)? Catching up with a long lost brother he didn't know he had (Black Lightning not breaking cover again, ever)?
Ah, finally some answers! In the very last panel, we're going to find out who the villain of our piece is. Who's been able to engineer the capture of the three established superheroes in the group, including the famous Batman. This is gonna be good!
Hum... ok.
So it's Baron Bedlam. A tiny dictator who's eyes don't quite reach the door's viewing slot. And so begins Mike Barr's long tradition of introducing lame villains that don't deserve to be in Who's Who (the fact that Baron Bedlam actually made it into Who's Who doesn't change the fact that he didn't deserve to be there.)
But we can't leave Batman and friends in the World's Largest Dungeon in the World's Tiniest Country! Though this issue ends, there'll be more to come!
So Batman is making like a bat-eared rock in the moonlight as a glowing Halo hides behind a tree. It's time to learn a valuable lesson about responsibility.
Batman's reaction to Halo "breaking stealth mode"? Shouting at her from the top of his lungs.
Look at the previous panel again. Is there any kind of sound effect associated with Halo's power blasts? In ANY panel? Certainly, no sound came out of the revolutionary's mouth. They didn't hear HER, Batman, they heard you shouting at her. And once they escape from those thorny bushes they've stuck themselves into, you're gonna pay for that mistake.
Here, Batman is finally ready to accept that it's his mistake. Heavy punching always clears the mind.
Ah, see, didn't actually accept responsibility. The reason Batman actually needs a team? Laying blame.And being the third member of the future Outsiders to get totally pwned by a nameless soldier? Karma in action, baby.
Credit where credit is due department: These guys may be nameless, paper-hat-wearing thugs from a country you've never heard of, but they work fast. Burying Geo-Force faster than Dwayne McDuffie a few pages back, and now making an Ewok pole to carry Batman back to base. They're very efficient.And Halo? Halo's been told not to do a damn thing. When she broke protocol, she got shouted at. She's not making that mistake again. She'll just watch from the shadows from now on. (Of course, shadows can't really exist in her presence...)
Later, Batman wakes up and he's being straddled by cannibal Elijah Wood from Sin City. Oh wait, it's just Lucius Fox. Well cool! He's the guy Batman wanted to rescue! But what's that he's saying? He didn't really want to be rescued? Stockholm syndrome? Just loving the accomodations since they gave him a plush pillow (Metamorpho's buttocks)? Catching up with a long lost brother he didn't know he had (Black Lightning not breaking cover again, ever)?
Ah, finally some answers! In the very last panel, we're going to find out who the villain of our piece is. Who's been able to engineer the capture of the three established superheroes in the group, including the famous Batman. This is gonna be good!
Hum... ok.So it's Baron Bedlam. A tiny dictator who's eyes don't quite reach the door's viewing slot. And so begins Mike Barr's long tradition of introducing lame villains that don't deserve to be in Who's Who (the fact that Baron Bedlam actually made it into Who's Who doesn't change the fact that he didn't deserve to be there.)
But we can't leave Batman and friends in the World's Largest Dungeon in the World's Tiniest Country! Though this issue ends, there'll be more to come!
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