He works so well here, giving us growth in such a short span of time while also giving us one of the darkest and most fucked up stories for Jim Gordon. has a successful meeting with Grayson, but afterwards it's revealed that he's still actively torturing people as a psychopath. Tim Drake and Lucius Fox create a mask that allows Dick to sneak in by giving him a mask that lets him impersonate William Rhodes. Tips on parenting you can't find in a parenting book: Commissioner, if you want to scare your eight year old son straight, the best place to put him might not be in Arkham Asylum next to the Joker. As I said in the previous review, There are epic tales of the Bruce Wayne Batman that everyone mentions: The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight, Year One, The Long Halloween, the list goes on and on.

Helpless and trapped in the deadly Mirror House, Batman must fight for his life against one of Gotham City's oldest and most powerful evils!

So far, I really liked Scott Snyder's other Batman stories (The Court of Owls and The City of Owls), I was almost 100% sure I was going to like this one. Tiger Shark was able to get away with murdering her friend because Sonia tricked Batman into eliminating her other enemies first.

His normality is what's so disarming, and the artwork by Francesco Francavilla who draws/paints this storyline adds to the creepiness. I've worked extensively for DC Comics, writing such titles as Batman, Detective Comics, Justice League, the comic event books DC Dark Knights Metal and Death Metal, and Swamp Thing, among others. Overall, “Batman: The Black Mirror” is easily one of the best current “Batman” stories around and anyone who is a huge fan of Dick Grayson will definitely love this comic! Can two of Gotham’s proudest protectors bring justice to this malevolent threat in Commissioner Gordon’s most personal battle to date? In these issues, we see Gordon stumble upon an enigma he could never seem to get a hold of in solving, one whose dark nature perplex and wound him most: his own son James Jr.

James Gordon Junior also tells Dick he knew he was Batman when he saw Batman smiling in television due to Bruce Wayne not smiling. s home to try and catch him, but instead he finds a box containing the keys of everyone he's ever killed. I really liked to see Dick Grayson as Batman, he is so different than Bruce, and yet he is so great at it with his own way of doing things. For every batman fan who's reading this, when you're writing a review don't tell everyone what happens in every part of the story. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006.

Set during a time when Dick Grayson, the original Robin, has taken up the mantle of Batman, this collection is part horror, part thriller, part mystery. This is a complicated rating for me because I will rate something lower if I feel like the main character wasn't characterized well or there wasn't any character development. As the conflict comes closer to its resolution, they find that the truth behind this murderous crime spree isn’t just careening toward their doorstep—it has in fact emerged from it. Even when he does a jump to save himself from a dangerous situation, he does it in his own style, due his acrobacy background, which is different of how Bruce would do it. Dick goes out to meet Sonia Zucco, but she tells she does not know who did it and asks him to leave.

The actual story here is that Dick Grayson, now Batman, has uncovered a terrifying and strange case when he discovers that a nightmarish auction is being held where the criminals of Gotham City’s possessions are all being sold to the rich citizens of Gotham City. The tone of this series was pretty dark, but I liked that Snyder was still able to insert a bit of humor to it. Batman and Red Robin take down the bird poachers responsible for the aviary, although the Dealer's hallucinogenics are still in Batman's system. His issues are illustrated wondrously by Francesco Francavilla whose limited color palette of dark colors (hues of orange, red, blue and purple) make the stories a chilling visual adventure as it is able to echo the depths of horrors that Snyder's writing purposefully and, at most times, masterfully brings out with atrocious clarity. The event begins a strange and deadly mystery that will bring Batman face-to-face with the new, terrifying faces of organized crime in Gotham.