Batman and the Outsiders #2: Pages 17-18

Battlefield Batman, new from DC Direct:Simultaneously plays tug-of-war with a soldier and gives a would-be king a pep talk. Truly, this action figure can do it all.
Little known fact: Electricity will undo every rivet on a tank. Well, that's what happens when you shop at Army Surplus.
Katana's PG-rated move: Hitting a guy with your fists as you grip your sword really tightly. If you're not gonna use the blade, it kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it? And what is this Markovian luxury the narrator is going on about? Teevo? Caviar? The Renaissance?
Ah yes, "hope". And nothing gives you more hope than Halo disabling a rebel tank with her stink ray. SSSST: Silent but deadly.
But just as Batman is about to pounce on some tiny fairy folk, something unbalances him! Is that dirt-power being exercised?
It is! Baron Bedlam's dirt power! He really should use it to cover up his combat latrine, but who am I to tell a supervillain how to go about being evil? For Bedlam, that means laying a stinker, punching Black Lightning in the crotch, referring to himself in the third person, and generally using complex syntax even Siskoid wouldn't attempt.

But another smell intrudes upon the battlefield. Is that manure?
No! It's Geo-Force. Maybe somebody will give him a motivation... with words!
Ok, so we have Geo-Force back, but where's Batman now? He just jumped off that tank on the previous page and now he's letting Bedlam throttle Gregor? Maybe he's tending to Black Lightning's deep crotch wound.
"Usurper!" So you think Prince Brion means Bedlam... or Gregor? Sibling rivalry is such an ugly thing.

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