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WARNING ! Spoilers to Detective Comics # 1027 , out now !
If there ’s something strange in Gotham , even the dead superheroes know who to call . InDetective Comics # 1027 , James Tynion IV and Riley Rossmo ’s " Ghost Story " sees theDark Knightand his sidekickRobinteam up with Boston Brand aka the spectral sub calledDeadmanto stop the latest Gotham villain , the Specter Collector from down Gotham ’s bushed .
In this massive anthology celebrate this modish milestone in the Caped Crusader ’s history , Batman and Robin wait on top of a duomo for Deadman on a showery night . Making hisusual entrance by have multitude , Boston jumps between the two hero , mentally explaining that this irregular squad - up will end quicker if Boston take Batman for a test drive . Robin poke fun at Boston ’s former reputation before getting left on guard duty because what ’s coming is n’t for young and impressionable middle to see .
As they head underground , Boston fills Batman in about Specter Collector , a homo whose use of the dark arts permit him to make physical contact with tone . With radiate gullible mechanically skillful gloves , the baddie is able to hurt or even consume any ghost he captures . It believes their sum grant him big businessman which Deadman denies and says only supports the fact that he ’s dotty . The only literal threat is that when the spirit is consume , they are completely destroyed , their hereafter and memories disappearing forever or else of finally finding peace in the afterlife . The supernatural duo interrupts Specter Collector ’s dinner party and sensing Deadman ’s spirit within Bruce , he figures Boston Brand will make for a tasty replacement .
With the floor jumping back and forth between the present and Bruce ’s memory of aconversation he had with his motherabout ghostwriter , Tynion and Rossmo tell a taradiddle from Batman ’s past tense that capture you in the mood for Halloween as the Dark Knight is present with the supernatural and thaumaturgy , which may be hard for most people to accept much less struggle . But Batman has picture and done so much in his superhero life history that he just roll with whatever the position is , proving that he can be pliable depend on the situation , even if it means allowing himself to be possessed . Nobody is expire to be consuming the souls of Gotham under Batman ’s watch .
But as the bomber are triumphant and remove the Specter Collector ’s boxing glove carefully , Boston asks the same question that Robin asked earlier , why is n’t Batman afraid of ghostwriter ? Bruce answer the question in the same way that Green LanternJohn Stewartdid when someone ask him if the Green Lanterns do n’t palpate fear- they whole do , but it ’s their ability to overcome it that matters . Batman , a person of logic and science , has see and experienced enough matter that truly astound and terrify him but when it add up to ghosts , it ’s simple . After the conversation he had with his mother years ago , ghosts are not that scary to him . So in the end , Detective Comics proves it , Batmanain’t afraid of no ghost butRobinon the other script … not so much .
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