A review by unladylike
Batman & the Signal by Scott Snyder, Tony Patrick

3.0

The majority of this trade is the "Wheel" storyline that I had read published elsewhere (in All-Star Batman and possibly another trade), and I found it to be frustratingly self-referential in that the Duke character's purpose and trajectory are a big mystery. After that long introduction, by the end of which Duke has been training and fighting alongside Batman for a whole year, he gets his own series, which is a measly three issues long. By the end of this collection, I was convinced Duke was going to get killed off and was only created to serve as a piece of the Metal puzzle Scott Snyder spent so much time building up to and masterminding.