About Heroes

Writer: Peter Milligan
Penciller: Dustin Nguyen

I have no idea why I like Batman with a scarf so much, but I do, I really, really do. At first I was like, hey wait, Batman doesn’t need to wear a scarf everyone knows he has a built in heating and cooling system in his batsuit. But wait, he is wearing the Suit of Sorrows, the one that Talia gave him during the Resurrection of Ra’s crossover, and the bases for this story.

So because of the SoS I get to have Batman in a scarf beating up French monks, does it get any better? This is a great Detective comic by Milligan. It cuts right in on Dini’s run but you might have a hard time knowing it without the credits in front of you. It is a self-contained story with plenty of acknowledgement to the past story without it going overboard. The inner monologue is on point and the art really shows off the SoS. I really loved the pacing of the book too. There were two moments where Robin suggests that Batman do one thing, and then you turn the page and bam he’s done the exact opposite, but of course he’s done the exact opposite, he’s Batman, he never rests, never gives up, when is Robin going to learn?

I liked that most of the mystery was solved but not all of it. This allows for the suit to be opened back up again. And I have no doubt that it will, probably from a hot superstar Scottish writer who has a flare for cracking old stories vaults and taking a peak inside, I don’t know. Not much else to say, its happening more and more where Detective comics is the best choice for a classic one issue story, someone should tell Patton Oswald (The comedian/writer of the forward in the Justice League of America HC) A+.