I like how the gray lettering is used to indicate a character whispering. Shush's speech bubbles are kinda hard for me to read, but that's the point because in my head I actually do hear her words as a whisper and as I'm straining to read her words, the characters are also straining to hear her. Shout out to Steve Wands.
Again, I have to reiterate my hate for Flatline as Damian's love interest. She's a decent character and has more going for her in regards to her sister, Lord Death Man, and Ra's, but this forced and contrived romance is seriously detrimental. I also hate Bruce's tacit approval of what he thinks is going on between Damian and Flatline.
I may change my mind if it's revealed that she has only been manipulating Damian and leading him on to think she has feelings for him when she has some ulterior motive. There is more tangible evidence that she is not as she seems, but everything is trying to make it seem "Look how cute they are!" and all I have to say to that is "They sure are standing next to each other."
And I'm also really tired of the "We know how to be Batman and Robin, but not father and son." One, please stop right out stating your thesis statement of the book. It's weak. And two, it's not as true a statement as you think it is. Just because you keep saying it doesn't automatically mean it's true.
Also, Damian is not attending high school again. This is his first time attending. It's not good to imply otherwise. But that's a relatively minor complaint of mine. (Another complaint is that the credits on the cover are wrong, but that's even more minor)
I think my complaining about editor's notes may be working because there were a couple of instances where the dialogue mentioned previous events and readers are directed to where those events occurred. Was that so hard?
Simone di Meo is back at his peak of wasting precious page space to show the readers absolutely nothing relevant while also making action unclear and unable to be followed. It's just panels that are put next to each other that only show one thing that have no relation to those around it.
And god, is it not more obvious than this issue that Damian is made to look exactly like Tim.