Are you talking about City if Bane?
1. Bruce got a signal from Alfred that made him think Alfred got away from Bane in Batman 79. Bruce didn't know Alfred lied and planned to let himself get killed by Bane to allow Bruce to take back Gotham. Don't ask me why Alfred suddenly didn't have enough faith in Bruce to save him, it's King's Batman, not a lot of things made sense when you thought about it for a few seconds.
Bruce sent Damian to Gotham afterwards, leading to the events seen in 77.
The reason he sent Damian was because after Alfred was gone Bane would need a new hostage to keep the family out and Damian was supposed to play that new hostage, let the others into the house and defeat Bane together.
Why Alfred himself couldn't have let the the bat-family into the manor, perhaps with the help of Clayface who was also working for Bruce in City of Bane, to avoid Alfred having to free himself and risking Damian's life later is beyond me.
That's simply Bruce's crappy plan as he explains it in Batman 81.
2. Tom King never bothered to explain much, least of all for characters he didn't care about, so what Damian knew or felt was never explored.
It's just King's shitty writing. As well as the intervention of DiDio, who urgently needed to kill Alfred in order to bring his shitty idea with the new Batman in 5G. That's it.
They're going to fix this mess anyway, I think.
DCeased: Dead Planet was very good, the banter between Jon and Damian was really enjoyable. Curious to see where this goes.
Since there's already people who commented about Dead Planet, I will comment about Batman : Gotham Night #12
IT'S AMAZING. I know that we can count on you, Seeley..
Below is huge spoiler! I have no self-restraint so please forgive me and don't read my spoiler if you haven't read Batman : Gotham Night #12...
spoilers:end of spoilers
I knew that he's weirdly calmer on preview! There's no way Damian accepts to be called 'good little protege' without any fight!
'That unique mix of private school priss and world-conquering villain' PPFFTT!!! If the 'world-conquering villain' part is from Talia's genes, then 'private school priss' part is from Bruce's genes XDDDD
"TT" God suddenly I realized that I miss that catchphrases. And realized that in TT, he rarely use the 'TT', which is another disappointing thing of that book. Pun not intended.
'Being a Robin means being there for everyone who needs you' I love when writer shows this side of Damian instead of only obsessing over beating criminals.
Only Dick Grayson who can ruffle Damian's hair without getting hunted and maimed. And maybe Jon Kent. Deathstroke is the prime example of that rules.
'Here, Red Robin " Gosh DAMIAN I LOVE YOU! SEELEY I LOVE YOU! I thought that he will make a jab on Drake's name, but instead he refused to use it entirely!!! XD XD
And that 'Pathetic Hangers-On!' XD XD XD Well at least Karlo get one aspect right about him
In short, reading Batman : Gotham Night makes me remember why I love Damian Wayne. My only complain is spoilers:end of spoilers
he's not included on that 'power ranger style' pose, but I don't think he wil agree to do that even if he's already there. Also about him and Dick literally never agree about anything before. They're canonly agree on many things before, after all they were once Second Generation of Dynamic Duo.
But after all, it's an enjoyable read. Not many writer can write story of Damian that makes me think 'wow that's my Damian!'. Seeley I beg you, please write more Damian in the future...
Last edited by Light of Justice; 07-07-2020 at 05:53 AM.
Yeah, Gotham Nights was great too.
At first I was a bit confused about how Damian was written, but by the end it all made sense.
I love it when that kind of stuff is intentional and not just the writer not knowing what he's doing.
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