When Vale and her new partner find themselves in over their heads with a few members of Falcone’s gang, who’s there but Harper Row (as ‘Bluebird’) to get them out of it? Vale ends up getting her story, but seeing as Harper’s there and her brother is never far behind, Cullen Row ends up taking a heavy dose of nanobots right down the esophagus for his trouble.
This seems to have caused a spark on the newswire, which is a little strange, because when does Gotham City ever slow down enough for news to slow down to begin with? young upstarts’ stuff going on the paper over the recent Jim Gordon arrest. “Batman Eternal” has done a nice job of paying a little bit of service to all of Gotham’s elements, whether it’s the police force, media, gang underworld, or Bat-family. Oh yeah, Tim gets a few personal verbal jabs in at Bruce before he goes too.Īt the Gotham Gazette, Vicki Vale picks up a young, idealistic partner (we’ll talk about him more later) and heads off into the night to to do some investigating. Eventually, he and Batman cross paths at the home of one of the injured (infected?) children, and discuss the discovery of the nano-swarm that Pyg’s attack ended up releasing. Tim Drake has always been presented as the keenest detective of the various Robins, and here we see him mulling over aspects of the crimes that even Batman himself hasn’t considered yet. “Batman Eternal” #5 presents itself as a bit of a move in the right (or at least more familiar) direction for the character. Beyond that, Red Robin hasn’t had a very strong link to the Bat-books thanks to his muddy status as a Robin in the post-‘Flashpoint’ continuity. How is the story progressing?: The issue opens on Red Robin investigating Professor Pyg’s attack from the opening issue of “Batman Eternal.” For those not caught up on the ‘New 52’ status quo, there’s been a bit of a falling out in the Bat-family since the Joker spoiled things in ‘Death of the Family’. This is a Tim Drake-centric issue that also injects some pseudo-science nano-technology into the proceedings of “Batman Eternal” stylistically moving what has up until now been mostly a gangland tale of an underground war for Gotham. On the cover: Batman bashes and tears through a swarming barrage of nanobots that are rapidly burying a very distressed Red Robin. Written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV
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