The TOWER Part 1.
Beginning in Detective Comics #1047, we are given a twelve-week “event”.
That is correct, Detective Comics is moving to weekly for the next three months.
Since A-day (when Arkham Asylum was destroyed), to the Joker War to Fear State, when has the time to design, get approval/permits, and BUILD Arkham Tower come from?
There was no word this was already being done. I am sure Batman would have been keeping an eye out for a tower like this.
So here we are, a brand new tower built and taking in patients.
It is so new that Oracle does not know what security systems nor the floor plan of the tower is?
You would think for a building permit and for getting medical approval, such things would be out there.
Nope!
Ok, then what is the premise of this tower?
…mental health isn’t just a problem for Gotham’s most dangerous… it’s a struggle all of us face.
And how will they be doing this?
Treatment over punishment. Holistic. Humane. And most of all, effective.
Same old PR BS.
So what is happening in the story?
Somehow, we have some of the bat-family inside the tower, it is don’t know it they were undercover as patients to discover what this place was actually doing to the patients, but we did not get anywhere near there as right away (ok, 24 days after it opened) everything has gone wrong.
We are not told what happened, but we see a fire at the base of the tower, a ransom demand, the some patients are taken control and threw the Doctor of the tower out a window to prove their point.
After some time, Oracle is finally contacted by Nightwing (in his civilian outfit) telling her there was gunfire, and on another page we see how is suggested to be Huntress, who also is not in costume, bleeding and ontop of an elevator in the elevator shaft.
There has been no suggestion one of the rogues gallery is the cause of it.
But this treatment of those needing mental health issues in such a violent and horrible way is disgusting, IMO.
And coming so soon after when Doctor Hugo Strange was involved in medical treatments (See Harley Quinn leadup to Fear State).
I hope I am over-reading it.
But those are my first impressions.
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