Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Three #6 - DC Comics

BATMAN: THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE SEASON THREE No. 6, August 2023

Walking a somewhat slow, sedentary line with this twenty-page periodical’s plot, Alan Burnett and Paul Dini’s penmanship for Issue Six of “Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Three” probably struck its audience as being more in keeping with one of the animated television series’ films rather than its more fast-paced single episodes. But whilst the majority of the comic’s narrative focuses upon Bruce Wayne uncomfortably enduring a holiday on his own Caribbean retreat and then dining with the love of his life, Talia al Ghul, the writers still manage to inject some enjoyable action-packed moments into their script.

Indeed, the billionaire businessman’s night-time decision to windsurf near a suspiciously shady-looking family yacht absolutely smacks of something Ian Fleming would include in one of his James Bond novels, especially once the “wealthy American playboy” encounters some pistol-firing goons on water bikes and shocking gets swallowed up by a set of giant underwater claws; “Obviously that skirmish with the gunmen wasn’t intended to harm me, but to force me farther out to sea…”

Furthermore, this opening instalment to “The Offer” occasionally throws in a few pulse-pounding panels featuring a seemingly outnumbered Selina Kyle desperately attempting to shake-off an army of faceless pursuers who want her dead. Catwoman’s headlong dash through the sewers of Gotham City and all-too brief encounter with Detective Bullock on a rain-soaked road repeatedly reminds the reader that despite crime supposedly being “at an all-time low” in Batman’s metropolis, there’s clearly something sinister occurring which will doubtless draw the Dark Knight back to his usual stomping ground.

Quite possibly enjoying the opportunity to pencil and colour a decidedly restless Wayne for the vast majority of this publication are Ty Templeton and Monica Kubina, who between them do an excellent job of contrasting the brightly lit eye candy of this book’s tropical resort with that of the grim and decidedly much more deadly home of the Penguin, Black Mask and Esther Valestra. Furthermore, the emaciated appearance of the Demon's Head is decidedly disconcerting, with the leader of the League of Assassins looking suitably elderly and frail for someone who can no longer physically survive being submerged within a life-enhancing Lazarus Pit.

The regular cover of "BATMAN: THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE SEASON THREE" #6 by Evan "Doc" Shaner