Batman has lost. Gotham is lost. Bane has won.

The city of Gotham is now under control of Bane. Who is with bane? Well you have Thomas Wayne, who basically is Batman without a moral code. Then you have Gotham girl, who took out the entire Justice League within minutes. So in other words, you got one of the strongest teams who've taken over Gotham, even scaring other villains to follow them. Damien won't take that sitting down and decides to go in to take care of business. On the flipside you also have Batman...or Bruce I should say, recovering from his failure. With that you have the return of Catwoman and they finally settle their messy relationship.

Overall, really nice jump in quality after the last two meh volumes. This one gives us plenty of great action scenes, a cool set up for Bane and his take over, some shocking deaths, and also a much needed recovery story and closure. I thought the art was also fantastic. I will say the pacing was odd and structure kind of sucked out the suspense a little too much for me at one point. Overall though, this is back to the quality I expect from King on Batman. A 4 out of 5.