Batman: Detective Comics: The Victim Syndicate Review

Finished reading Batman: Detective Comics: The Victim Syndicate, still coming to terms with the lost of their teammate Red Robin, the team will have to come together once again as they come face to face with a group of individuals hoping to bring an end to Batman and the legacy he's built. The book opens with Batwoman being called to Wayne Enterprises by Renee Montoya to help investigate a brake in by a new group of criminals hoping to find out how they are and why they attacked. Later that night the team go to a party where Batman plans to bring in Luke Fox, Batwing who is unveiling new police equipment as Batman hope to fill the void that was made when Red Robin was apparently killed. While at the party the team find themselves against the Victim Syndicate who what to make Batman pay for what's happened to them when they were caught in the crossfire of fights between Batman and his many rouges. The second story of the book writer James Tynion IV is join by writer Marguerite Bennett as the story focus on Batwoman with Kate and Batman heading to the clean up operation of the large monsters from the Night of the Monster Men story they discovered that a high ranking member of Kate's father's secret army, the Colony has stolen a vial of monster DNA and also brake into the Belfry to break Kate's father out. Overall this was a great book as it continues to build upon what has happen to Batman and his supporting cast since the beginning of DC Rebirth as all of the heroes are still coming to terms with the apparent death of Red Robin, especially with Spoiler being that the two were living together as it brings a very intriguing conclusion to the story with the Victim Syndicate as Stephanie ends up leaving the team. Clayface continues to get a some surprisingly great character development especially with on of the Victim Syndicate's members being and old production assistant on one of Basil's films before he became Clayface. Additionally the Batwoman story does a great job in setting up her own new series while also expanding upon a new area of Gotham with the remains of the monsters bringing a new element to the city and one that will be extremely interesting if it makes a return. The art throughout the book is great as the main story's art continues to be poster quality for each panel thanks to how well the action and character moments are draw. While the art for the Batwoman story mixes the action, character moments and flashback scenes extremely well. 8/10.