Batman: Detective Comics, Issue #952 is the first comic I've read in almost a week. It opens up in Paris, where Ra's Al Ghul, the leader of the League of Assassins, is confronting Shiva, the leader of the League of Shadows. Cut to Adam's Square, Gotham City. Batman's unnamed army is battling an unnamed group of plainclothes ninjas with titanium-piercing swords. They're under the command of Shiva, who's after Orphan, one of Batman's crew. And they're all kicking the Bat-gang's ass.
I'm not totally up on all the Bat-politics. I haven't seen Shiva before, but her destroying the League of Assassins and the still-unnamed Bat-army is only the beginning of her being made out to be a supreme badass. Batwoman's father, whose name I can't remember off the top of my head, has a story about meeting her in Pakistan. One thing I would like to see is more of a support staff in this Bat-army. Even in the Vietnam War, only 19% of soldiers saw any sort of action on the front lines, yet there's no one coordinating the efforts, bringing supplies, or building new weapons. Just my thought.
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