There are a couple DC team books in the time between Dark Crisis and Absolute Power that I hadn’t heard much good about (sometimes bad) and that were ultimately canceled. I planned to read them to stay current, but I wasn’t particularly looking forward to or had high hopes for them.
Ed Brisson’s Batman Incorporated Vol. 1: No More Teachers is therefore a pleasant surprise, collecting the Batman 2022 annual found elsewhere as well as the title’s first seven issues. What we have here still is really just a Ghost-Maker/Clownhunter title with international-themed Bat-people rounding out the background, but Brisson makes it gripping nonetheless. Previous Ghost-Maker and Clownhunter stories have been about temperamental vigilantes with a penchant for killing; here, we’ve got two temperamental vigilantes made even more temperamental as they try to adhere to a vow not to kill. Strong ties to another Bat-title enhance the book exponentially.
