Unfortunately, the most interesting thing about this issue is Snyder revealing the Commissioner Gordon backup runs concurrent to the feature story. The Gordon backup, all talking heads and decent art, is a bore. All talk is no way to do a backup. The feature, with Dick pursuing the evil auctioneers, rips off Eyes Wide Shut.…

Snyder opens the issue with narration from Dick playing over the storyline’s inciting action. Still, it took until Alfred shows up in the next scene, talking to Dick in the penthouse, for me to realize Snyder and Jock’s Detective Comics is about Dick Grayson as Batman. I was honestly expecting him in the pixie boots.…