Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Tom King Artwork: Joëlle Jones, Jordie Bellaire (colours) Lettering: Clayton Cowles Release Date: 7th February 2018 You have no idea how worried I was about this issue. I can also honestly say I’ve never read a comic so quickly in my life, with that kind of breathless, desperate urgency where you just have to know how it ends. I felt a little deflated at the end – my fears were unjustified, my hopes shone through. Batman and Wonder Woman are trapped – willingly – in The Realm, a place between worlds fighting a ceaseless horde of demonic beings, taking the place of The Gentle Man, the defender of that barrier. Seconds pass as hours, days, years, fighting constantly, and we left issue 39 on the verge of a kiss between Bruce and Diana. The thing is, I cannot see how Bruce and Selina can remain a couple, yet can’t imagine this turning into a drawn-out Bat Soap Opera. But without giving anything away, King deals deftly at every turn, in part by splitting the narrative between The Realm and Selina accompanying the Gentle Man to see his wife. As with all of the best bits of [...]