One Night in the War Zone
Credits: Doug Moench (writer), Ron Wagner (penciler), Joe Rubenstein (inker), Ken Bruzenak (letterer), Adrienne Roy (colorist)
Summary:
Robin provides Batman with a list of the three worst offenders
released during Two-Face’s scheme: Strake, McCone, and Cheung. Strake
targets his former partner in the drug trade, McCone invades the home of
the man who testified against him, and Cheung searches for people who
cheated him out of gambling profits. All three are located in
Battergate, an area of Gotham nicknamed “the war zone.” One by one,
Batman locates the fugitives and incapacitates them. Sirens continue to
blare after he’s finished, reminding him that Batman’s work is never
done.
Irrelevant Continuity: I thought the worst neighborhood in Gotham was supposed to be called “the Hub,” as seen in the earlier chapters of this crossover?
Review:
The emotional hook for this issue is Dick Grayson’s struggle to truly
become Batman, a job he knows he isn’t suited for and doesn’t expect to
keep for much longer. This would seem to be a better avenue to explore
than the previous arc’s relentless pushing of Two-Face as Dick Grayson’s
personal boogey man, but the story doesn’t really make being Batman
seem like such a bad job. There are no moral quandaries, nor are any of
the fugitives pursued by Dick particularly challenging threats. On the
bright side, the issue has solid artwork by Ron Wagner, and there’s
more than enough action to distract from Dick’s half-baked character
crisis. Judged mainly as a one-issue action story, this is fairly
entertaining.
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