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Gorgeous beard n sexy tash .... would love to get in there................... JMT

DETECTIVE COMICS #1003 JULY 2019 BY PETER J. TOMASI, BRAD WALKER, ANDREW HENNESSY AND NATHAN FAIRBAIRN

SYNOPSIS + REVIEW

That cover… doesn’t happen in the issue.

Arkham Knight reveals HER identity to Robin, no one we know, to be honest. At least, not at the beginning of the issue. She lets him leave the place (Arkham), after some of her acolytes attack Robin.

He then improvises a “Robin-signal” to call for Batman, so he can check if he was bugged during his captivity. He later creates a drawing of her face and they start running her facial features against face recognition software.

Knowing that they are quartered at Arkham, they go there only to discover that they already left. Jeremiah Arkham tells them that she is his daughter.

I like the dynamic here. Not surprised, as Tomasi has written the best Batman and Robin stories of this decade (at least with Bruce and Damian, Dick and Damian is a different monster).

I am also pleased to see that we didn’t have to wait a year to discover who Arkham Knight was. Good! it would have been a let down otherwise (as she came out of nowhere).

Because she is an Arkham, I am half expecting them to justify her actions with insanity, but I am hoping for a nicer explanation of her motivations.

Brad Walker has a very eye-catching style that I am really enjoying.

Batman & Robin