The story follows that there is some dodgy stuff going on at the pier where something is bring smuggled in or rather. Detective Sergeant Bullock steps on the scene and calls on the help of Batman and Robin. The story is intricately woven with you think you know where it is going vibe but it's not going there. The ending of this actually throws me off and creates more questions!
The art compliments the story with his grainy grittiness quality to it. There was a very powerful moment with Batman and his assailant where it was just pure action underwater - no words - and it formed a really powerful moment in the issue.
Spoiler alert: it seems that a passport was created for someone to get them off Gotham to Naples but they already have prior deportation sentence to said country on the ship that Batman and Robin took down with Bullock. I'm guessing it was all a ruse to extend the stay in Gotham.
Bullock basically asks the question everyone's been thinking in that Robin is slightly on the young side. This is further emphasised earlier when Bruce when he was about to say that Robin is past his bedtime until he got interrupted. Jason is a young boy who wants to play video games but fights really dangerous crimes. This does play on the dynamics of Batman and Robin when they provide different perspectives on situations in the issue.
The second story is of Black Canary and Green Arrow. Black Canary's character is beautifully built and you could say that she fly the nest - wink wink. It's literally that as she lives through her mother's torment (psychic link) and trauma brought about by Pyra and she has to learn to grow from it. It so happens that Black Canary is a seamstress of fireproof material and goes hunting for Pyra. She also so happens to pick the same building that situates her own adversary Bonfire, the city's fire chief and of course, Green Arrow. She can add strong intuition on to her list of powers.
She too has a very strong striking moment in that she lets out her Canary Cry, which is such a beautiful metaphor of her mother's scream has become a strength of power to grow from it.
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Bruce and I are on a first-name basis.
Dollar Comics: Detective Comics #554 (originally printed as Detective Comics #554)
Batman: Port Passed
Doug Moench - writer
Klaus Janson - artist
Todd Klein - letterer
Len Wein - editor
The Black Canary and Green Arrow: Crazy from the Heat II: The Past is Prologue
Joey Cavalieri - story
Jerome Moore - pencils
Bruce Patterson - inks
Bob Lappan - letters
Shelley Eiber - colours
Len Wein editor
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