It just wouldn't be Detective Comics without Batman being a detective, and this third installment showcases exactly that. I don't really have anything much to say for this issue because I think of all six, I liked this the least, mostly because after the fast-paced excitement of the first two issues, this one slows down the momentum to set up necessary exposition again. Not that Tomasi didn't try to expidite the process by breezing through a couple pages of Batman, in several disguises, traveling Europe until he finds the man he'd been looking for.
And that man is no other than Henry Ducard.
Because it's been so long, I barely even recall what more recent confrontation he had with Bruce until 'NoBody' was mentioned. That character was created during the initial run of Tomasi's Batman and Robin where Damian Wayne is the fourth Robin and also Bruce's son. It was definitely a callback that I can appreciate even though that particular wasn't the best Tomasi had to offer back then (that will come later on once he's polished his interpretation of Damian further and built up the father-son relationship more). So, to recap, Henry Ducard, according to online sources, 'is often credited in teaching him both detective/investigation skills and how to hunt enemies. Ducard's relationship with Wayne is often shown as strained, due to him being involved in the criminal underworld'.
Batman thought of him as the primary suspect after he got Damian to come so he can operate on Alfred. Damian is apparently still a pre-teen boy? I thought he at least reached his late teens, but then again Rebirth is like New 52 in a sense that it restarted stuff in canon again, so whatevs. Apparently too, Damian and Bruce aren't in the best of terms lately because of some issue I never got to read about because of my three-year hiatus after 2017, but it doesn't matter. Right now Batman is looking for Ducard because he has the most motive. OR DOES HE?
As if to blatantly disprove this theory, the morphing monstrosity from the first issue comes back, and this time it became a hydra of many heads, only that each head corresponds to the face of the villains Batman has fought in his Rogue's Gallery, including the ones he just beat up in the beginning of this issue. At this point, I'm getting suspicious that this might all be metaphorical. Oh, and it also killed Ducard, and with his dying breath, Ducard was like, "Yo, I'ma die on you out of spite especially cos you killed my son too!"
That was pretty much it. In comparison to the first two, this was a bland monthly release. Even with the Damian cameo.
RECOMMENDED: 7/10
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