Ah 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Knight Terrors, I remember it well... DC's last big event ended, er, today, and already here we are with another world-shaking crossover.🐲 

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War is set to cause a rift between Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle that will have drastic consequences for the city. Taking place across both the core Batman and Catwoman books, as well as a two-issue Red Hood spinoff and various one-shots, it explores an epic tiff𓆏 between Gotham City's foremost ex-lovers. So which side will you choose: the Bat or the Cat? 

Interestingly the opening Battle Lines one-shot, which is released today (confusingly before Prelude to Gotham War comes out next week), seems fairly conclusively on Selina's side. Spoilers for Battle Lines from here on in.

The issue opens with Roland Garner, a no-hope career criminal who has worked with everyone from the Riddler to Professor P🅘yg, receiving a mysterious note from Catwoman that reads, "If you risk your life... you deserve the rew🦩ards." He meets her and is offered something too good to refuse. 

Batman, meanwhile, has been resting up. Exhausted from recent events - notably his possession by Deadman in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Knight Terrors - he's slumped into unconsciousness, waking eight weeks later to find a very different Gotham. Crime is down by almost 75% and the usual rogue's gallery of vill🃏ains have been notably silent. What's happened?

The answer is simple: Catwoman. She's recruiting an army of people like Roland and training them to be elite cat burglars, 🦂all with one target: Gotham's super rich. It's all part of a Robin Hood-like attempಌt to forcibly redistribute the city's wealth. At the same time, she's made it clear that violent crime will not be tolerated.  

The other positive side-effect of this scheme is that there are simply not enough thugs for the city's real menaces - psychopaths like the Joker - to hir🐎e, meaning that violent crime has plummeted.

From where I'm standing that seems like a pretty compelling (if certainly🌳 doomed to fail) vision. It is effectively "eat the rich" in action and, honestly, Catwoman's argument that it's a more positive course of action than simply punching and imprisoning impoveris🥀hed and desperate people is hard to argue with.

Naturally Batman hates it. While he can see that violent crime is down, it prods at some of his insecurities. When she states that only the rich will be targeted, he snaps back, "My parents were 'rich'!" Which is both true and also very much missing the point that, had something like this been in place when he was a boy, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thomas and Martha Wayne may have simply lost some money, or a few expensiꦓv💖e trinkets, rather than their lives.

That's not to say her plan is without flaws. In training these people to be expert thieves, is Catwoman simply empowering thieves and murderers to be more efficient criminals? And it's already not as bloodle𝄹ss as she'd hoped. We see the first casualty at the end of the issue when poor old Roland is killed while breaking into a supposedly empty condo. 

Even so, it feels better than the alternative, especially given that Bruce is clearly not doing well right now. As he admits to himself in the issue, he's "losing control" and it's no wonder. It's been a more-than-usually difficult time lately with Failsafe, Red Mask and൲ then the whole Kniꦓght Terrors shebang. 

The disturbing key to where this is all going comes near the start of the issue. While he sleeps he is visited by the violent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman of Zur-En-Arrh p𓆏ersonality and perhaps something else. In a single panel we see several glowing eyes watching suggesting... what? Some kind of💮 possession? Might some of the entities from Knight Terrors have survived in Bruce? Or is this something new?

Regardless, the final panel of the issue makes it clear that the Zur-En-Arrh personality has fully taken control. "The mission has been tainted," he snarls, like Travis Bickle or Watchmen's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rorschach in a Batsuit. "We stop crime. Becau🐷se we're Batman꧒." 

Bruce Wayne has 🥀left the building and this darker, more authoritari﷽an version seems to be in control of his body. Unless someone can rein him back in, the Gotham War is going to be long and bloody.

This is a really strong start to the new event. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mike Hawthorne's a💫rt has an appropriate grittiness, while Adriano Di Benedetto's inks reflect the murkiness of this situation. 

Howard and Zdarsky's script, meanwhile, is both compassionate and reflective, perhaps, of the inherent contradictions in being a fan of Batman. It's fun to watch him beat up villains, but as many have commented over the years, it's not exactly the most efficient way to solve the structural problems that have made Gotham such a troubled city. It's also lead to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码𒊎历史查询:its fair share of problems in the past. Perhaps Selina has finally stumbled upon the answer that has eluded Bruce so long - but will he let her follow 𒆙through with it?

Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War: Battle 🌼Lines 🍌#1 is published today by DC Comics.

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