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Writer: Paul Dini
Artists: Don Kramer & Wayne Faucher

And Paul Dini strikes again! As much as I loved Face the Face, I am loving Paul Dini's run on Detective Comics even more. That, and Don Kramer returns to Batman in this issue from his Face the Face storyline. If that is not reason enough to give two cheers, here's a third, this issue made me enjoy the riddler. How often does that happen?

Paul Dini continues to use Bruce Wayne as a character. Batman is out saving Gotham and returns for the night, only to notice that Alfred has set off the alarm that there are people in Wayne Manor and Alfred is to busy to come to the Batcave. Normally in bat-books, this means a threat, a battle, but Dini turns this on its head as upstairs awaits a circus. A media circus, with the Riddler as its Ringmaster. It seems that Bruce Wayne was the last person to see a murdered woman alive, so the Riddler has brought the press and Jim Gordon to prove that Bruce Wayne is not the killer. They leave and now Batman has his interest peaked. Later on we see Batman and the Riddler team up on this murder case, leading to lots of great dialogue between the two.

Riddler: "So... Nice Car. First time I've been inside it conscious."
Batman: "Don't touch anything."

Paul Dini writes a great Batman story, a great murder mystery, and even a great Riddler story. I can't rave enough about Don Kramer's art and how suited he is for the Batman books. So how about those three cheers for Batman? It’s been a long time since I've been this happy about reading Batman books. A.