I know this is an insulting rhetorical question, but you have to wonder if Tomasi has ever read Batman and Robin before. I thought the characterization of Damien was WAY off the map.

Let's take one word balloon exchange:

Robin makes a crack in the morgue"

Robin: "I.D.ing Potato Head here is going to take some time."
Batman: "Show some respect for the dead, Robin."
Robin:"My bad. I meant MISTER Potato Head."


"My Bad"? MY BAD??

Damien has developed a weird Brooklyn Surfer dude way of speaking. Saying "monkey suit" instead of tuxedo? I don't recall Damien using much of any slang before this issue. Not only that, but isn't Damien usually all business? He seems more like Jason Todd or the kid from the Dick Tracy movie. Not to mention the pop culture reference of Mr. Potato Head, which for a character largely shown having trouble playing and interacting with other children just seems wrong. Why would he know or care or reference Mr. Potato Head at all? It just seems fundamentally wrong and anathema to his persona.

Batman and Robin disappearing behind Gordon's back (in an enclosed room) is wildly inconsistent with the best moment of the new Detective Comics series. I understand not caring about shared universes and can put those aside, but these didn't seem like the same people I had been reading about for the last year.

Why does Dick care so much about the color settings on the TV? What does this tell us about his character? If anything it seems like something Tim would say.

What was Bruce's reaction to watching Mark of Zorro?

We know what happens BEFORE the movie. After is the interesting part of the story. After he watched it last time his life was dramatically altered, here the issue is left dangling and never commented upon or mentioned again.

I know this might seem like nit picking but the mischaracterization of Robin didn't jibe at all in my head and what I have grown to know about the character, his voice is completely different. The plot includes Man-Bat or some spinoff of Man-Bat. Something we've also already seen this month in another Batman comic. At least this streamlines my Batman reading.