Batman: Sins of the Father #1 Review

Writer: Christos Gage / Artist: Raffaele Ienco / DC Comics If you have not played at least the first season of Batman: The Telltale Series:

You are being warned now that there will be some spoilers for the video game series immediately after I’m done with this list. You should really play the aforementioned video game series because it’s a really solid entry in the Batman mythos.

Batman: Sins of the Father is an “interquel” of sorts, taking place between the first season of Telltale’s Batman and the current The Enemy Within sophomore season. The title refers to the sins of this version’s Thomas Wayne. To recap (and outright spoil for anyone who hasn’t heeded my warning), in the Telltale universe Thomas Wayne was a ruthless mob boss. He was in deep with the Falcones and the Hills, and not above using his medical degree and access to drugs to make folks clinically unstable. We’re talking straight up super villain territory. The video game series deals with Bruce discovering that his father and, to a lesser extent, his mother were the opposite of philanthropic and the resultant aftermath. The comic picks up shortly after the events of the first season. Batman’s relationship with Gotham PD is still tenuous at best, and Bruce is dealing with the aftermath of the city finding out his family history. It follows up similar beats to the first season which isn’t bad and does reiterate a fundamental truth that deep conspiracies don’t just disappear into thin air. The last act is where…