Maybe I’m just being impatient here, but it is time to get this thing going! It is time for the climax to begin, not to focus on the C plot.

If this were a movie, we would be entering the last 15 minutes. I just feel like we need to be so far past this by now. Then we wait almost 10 issue before we get back to them! This excursion to go grab Milo feels like one of those intrusions in the bigger story. Remember the cliffhanger to issue 6, where Corrigan and Batwing are standing outside Arkham: it’s all menacing and spooky and we are wondering what is going to happen in there. A lot of times, one story pops up right in the middle of another and completely shatters the momentum and connection to the ongoing story we were in the middle of. On the whole, the editing is very choppy. I believe that this book highlights a larger problem that I have been having with Batman Eternal in general: the inconsistency in the editing. Guess I was wrong! Then what was he doing that whole time? Flying the Riddler back from their ski trip? Come on!

I speculated that he was dealing with Clayface and the other Arkham escapees. I assumed that after we were done seeing what Harper and Red Robin were up to, we would jump back to Batman and see what he was doing during their Hatter section. Batman showed up briefly in the last 3 issues, but only when he was absolutely needed, because he was otherwise occupied (with Clayface I thought): he didn’t help with the Hatter thing because he was busy elsewhere, and he had Red Robin deliver Harper’s message about infiltrating the Egyptian Casino because he was likewise, too busy. I haven’t brought it up before, because I presumed we would reconvene with Gordon and Clayface when resuming the Batman related portion of the story. And in #40, Clayface was shown flying around in a Batplane blowing up Gotham! It seems to me that catching Milo shouldn’t take priority over dealing with these two plot points. Instead of running after Professor Milo, why don’t we check in with Gordon or Clayface? Where is Gordon? We haven’t seen anything from him since #38 when he told Bard to get him out of prison. Isn’t it time to start wrapping things up?įiller issue? Yes! The whole thing is basically one giant action sequence that doesn’t matter and doesn’t really take us anywhere. I did not need any follow-up: I’ve already read through 43 comics, I don’t expect to be given a filler issue this late in the game. Only 8 issues left with Batman Eternal, and the creative team decides that THIS is the best use of their ink? This issue is all about Professor Milo on the run because of his involvement with the Arkham incident personally, I thought the Arkham plot was finished when the Spectre intervened.

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