Hill continues his adventure of writing a damn good Black Lightning and a okay batman.

I wish this was just the outsiders. Because Hill is writing Black Lightning, Katana, orphan, and Duke all great. But Batman? The leader? Not as much. I'm not feeling this moppy Batman who seems to just hate everything about himself. I think batman second guesses himself and such at times but here he seems to just want everyone to know he's not to be looked to at all as a icon or hero. It's weird.

Saying that I really liked everyone else story moving forward. Katana especially was a nice surprise as I usually dislike her story but her accepting her past and fighting off her demons was nice. I enjoyed watching Duke and Cassandra work together as a team in training with new powers. I enjoyed even the slightly flirtiness of some characters.

The plot is standard bad guy wins this round but there's more to come. The final arc. As this stands this is a solid volume but not amazing. A 3 out of 5.