DC Comics and The Next Batman: Second Son #2 Spoilers and Review follows.
Tim Fox Wallows In Self Pity As His Brother Batwing and Grifter Soar?!
To remind readers this takes place in the Infinite Frontier era DC Comics, we open with news reports on newly elected Mayor of Gotham City Christopher Nakano.
Then Tim Fox – now going by Jace – is welcomed by part of his family at the airport.
Elsewhere, his brother Luke Fox as Batwing foils a gun-toting loon, but…
…Nakano’s anti-vigilante policies seems supported by frontline cops.
Elsewhere, family patriarch Lucius Fox pumps Grifter for info on his son.
Grifter leaves reminds Lucius that he hired to him to bring back Tim not fix him.
Elsewhere, Mayor Nakano wants Renee Montoya to be the GCPD Police Commissioner as he thinks James Gordon is too close to vigilantes like the Batman. She says she will think on it, but it’s not clear if in the Infinite Frontier continuity whether she’s the vigilante Question still / yet.
The book ends with Tim / Jace lamenting about his family as…
…he unintentionally pushes away his sister.
The Pulse:
More emotion than action in this issue, but it was entertaining. The art was just ok through. 6.5 out of 10.
