Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Tony Patrick Artists: Cully Hamner , Laura Martin, Deron Bennett Release Date: 3rd January 2018 Writer Tony Patrick seemingly read my mind as I flicked through the first couple of pages of Batman and The Signal, providing us with the inner monologue of Signal as he sits down to the weekly meeting of the extended Bat family, wondering exactly why we need another new member of the fam’. There’s a lot of them, all with their own back stories and some (in the case of the Robins, at least) with a history spanning long before the New 52. With all of this, it’s hard to see why we need another addition to the team, particularly one that doesn’t seem to fit in. He hasn’t got the dark edge that Red Hood or even Nightwing has, nor does he have that same mirror to the Bat that all the others seem to have, to the point where you could genuinely see any of them replacing Bruce one day – something I always saw as one of the main traits of the Bat family. But Scott Snyder has invested a lot of time in the development of Duke, [...]