Written by Steve Orlando
Penciled by Riley Rossmo
Cover by Yanick Paquette
Released Sep 21, 2016
The issue opens at the Gotham Mourgue, with some vile creatures beginning to animate from dead bodies on the autopsy slabs when a ripped up Dr. Hugo Strange gets the call that it's almost time to begin whatever he's supposed to be doing... Meanwhile Batman and his Bat-Team are still reeling from the loss of Red Robin in Detective #940, brooding on a rooftop and preparing for a Hurricane.
Suddenly there is a loud crash and Alfred informs Batman that a hideous humanlike monster is walking the streets of Gotham City. Batman jumps in the Batplane and tries to literally fly through the infantile monstrosity, terminally damaging the aircraft and ejecting from it. The monster grabs him and hurls him into the air. He flies his jetback into it, leaps off it and orders it to self destruct. The explosion levels the beast.
Batman takes a sample of it's DNA and sends it back to Duke and Alfred. The bulbous monster turns out to be a guy by the name of Bob Castro... The same man Amanda Weller hired to keep the Psycho Pirate in check. He committed suicide in the police station in Batman #2. Somehow this is him and Batman is convinced Hugo Strange is behind it.
The ussue ends with the team hearing a rumbling in the distance. It turns out to be people running panicked away from something, and Batman reveals to others what Bob's last words at the police station were :"The Monster Men Are Coming...". Batman eerily looks at them and tells them "The Monster Men are here."
This series is looking awesome. It continues in Nightwing #5 but since I only read this book and Detective Comics, I might have to look for some cliffs. Very cool book though. Especially since it appears Riley Rossmo did both pencils AND inks which is something you don't see every day. I give it a 10/10.
Until next time, thanks for reading!
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