Gotham Underground

This book takes place shortly after the death of Black Mask while coinciding with Salvation Run. After Black Mask is killed by Catwoman, a power vacuum is created once more and both Batman and his allies and the various mob bosses try to prevent the events from "War Games" happen once more. With most of the planet's villains are transported to another planet in "Salvation Run", the remaining players are mostly Penguin and Great White Whale which results in a "masked freaks" vs "regular crime bosses" mob war. Lot of Batman villains in this one(Joker, Penguin, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Bane, Riddler, Sugar and Ventriloquist, Great White Shark, Zsaz, Deadshot, and many more) and Batman masquerades as Matches Malones for most of this book. It's a great book where the villains are the stars.

I found this to be a real page turner. Batman as Matches Malone, lots of Robin, and ton of Penguin, and a great Joker appearance. I found myself rooting for the Riddler and Penguin against an invading criminal conglomerate. Beautiful artwork by the very talented C. Calafiore and a great story by Frank Tieri. A good length at 224 pages. I didn't want to put it down. What's not to like?