Bruce Wayne is back, but he’s busy off shores establishing his idea of “Batman Incorporated”, a global force of Batmen, financed by Wayne Enterprises to help local police departments around the world. The event begins a strange and deadly mystery that will bring Batman face-to-face with the new, terrifying faces of organized crime in Gotham. I also loved the relationship shown between Commissioner Jim Gordon and Dick Grayson as Jim Gordon holds the same respect for Dick that he held for Bruce Wayne.

He draws James as this normal looking kid but the expression on his face is as scary as anyone you'd find in Arkham Asylum. He works so well here, giving us growth in such a short span of time while also giving us one of the darkest and most fucked up stories for Jim Gordon.If there's going to be a bunch of comic books you want to start with, I'd say this is a bullet point book. Francesco Francavilla’s artwork in Commissioner Jim Gordon’s side of the story concerning his story are always shown in dark colorings and has a slight 80s artwork vibe which really brought a classic vibe to this story. We get a fantastic scene where he has lunch with his father and tells him about his diagnosis as a psychopath.

The moods these guys set elevate this book from good to masterful without making me feel like it's forced. Their conversations were absolutely great and funny and I loved these little moments of humanness in an otherwise pretty wild and scary story.As a gothic and brooding city it is also the perfect setting to remind the reader that beneath the exterior, often a darker heart can be lurking. Joey Espito from IGN wrote: "By all accounts, from writing to art, "Black Mirror" is a perfect 10 in storytelling, no doubt about it. But meanwhile, many have hailed Black Mirror as a high note for the original series to end on, in which Dick Grayson, having taken on the cape and cowl from his boss, works with Commissioner Gordon on a particularly grisly (of course) and personal (natch) set of cases that (indubitably) all turn out to be the same case, formed by a criminal mastermind from their shared past. There is a dead woman inside the whale, and Batman visits Sonia to investigate the death of her friend.

Oracle helps him track down the Dealer escaping on a plane, and he uses a high-tech flying Batsuit to attack it in the air. I liked Bucky much more in the role of Cap than Steve Rogers, and I liked Dick Grayson in the role of Bats much more than Bruce Wayne. All's I'm saying is that I've been thinking about what the DC reboot really means for all the long-running superheroes it affected last year. While some unfortunate production issues on the hardcover keep the collection from being flawless, this is still a must-own piece of Dark Knight history". I guess I was just really surprised that I would end up liking Batman, even when it's not Bruce Wayne.

Jim Gordon hunts down a man named Roy Blount he believes to be the Peter Pan Killer, a child murderer he chased in his early days. New and old villains share the spotlight, of course, and I'm always blown away by the joker who has gotten mightily creepy in his older age. Dick manages to barely escape due to the toxin in the auction meeting and is found by Tim Drake in an alley. Jock and Francesco Francavilla’s artwork: Both Jock and Francesco Francavilla’s artwork greatly contributed to the dark atmosphere of this story. There really is only one thing I want to say about this: it is probably one of the best Batman stories I have ever read.