**The following blog contains spoilers to the various Bat Family stories taking place in the Future State event**
Recap:
The beginning of the story has Robin monitoring some members of the Magistrate discussing this new item that is going to make the cybers more powerful and they will be able to wipe out the Bat Family. Robin lowers his camo tech and starts to engage with the individuals and the cyber. There is an internal monologue taking place where the reader discovers that Robin is aware of Nightwing and Jason Todd is working for the people that killed Bruce. Robin starts to talk about Damian, but stops. Robin finds out quickly that the cybers are now not affected by EMP blasts. The scuffle between Robin and the cyber shifts to the cyber having the upper hand. That is until Spoiler, Stephanie Brown, shows up and saves the day. It is also at this point that we learn that Tim Drake is Robin.
During the conversation between Tim and Stephanie, we learn that Stephanie hung up her cape for an extended time. Stephanie keeps pressing at Tim that he cannot stop the Magistrate on his own. Tim discusses that this convoy at this new material that the cybers are using needs to be stopped before it reaches Gotham. He asks Stephanie for help, but she insists that she is not interested. Spoiler leaves that area and Robin has an internal monologue where he says that there is only one other person that can help if Stephanie is not going to assist in stopping the convey.
The setting shifts to the Gotham City Customs office where the focus is on a character that we later learn is Darcy. She is working as a Customs agent at the office. Darcy goes on her break where she and Tim have a conversation about the convey that is on its way to Gotham. Tim has a sample of the material that the cybers are using to become more powerful. Darcy is shocked and explains that the new material is the Lazarus Resin that is taken from the Lazarus pits by the League of Assassins. The resin has the ability to resurrect people as well as give organic healing abilities to the cybers. Tim asks for Darcy to help locate the convoy so he can destroy the resin. Reluctantly, Darcy agrees to help Tim with his mission.
Tim and Darcy take off towards the convoy where they are unexpectedly joined by Spoiler. They are able to get on the convoy where they are surrounded by Magistrate agents and cybers. A battle ensues where the cybers appear to be winning. Robin attempts to charge a cyber, where he is grabbed and thrown into a large puddle of the resin. He is down for a minute, but then starts to get up where he is covered in the resin. This is where the issue ends.
Thoughts:
We are once again placed further along in the Future State timeline. It is unclear how much time has passed since we were first brought into the Future State Universe, however the Magistrate continues to develop their cybers. The Magistrate has had to make some powerful allies in order to have the resources to continue to develop their cybers. We learn that Stephanie Brown is part of the Future State Universe. I had to do some research on Stephanie Brown, as I never followed the “Young Justice” or “Teen Titans” storylines. Stephanie Brown is “The Spoiler” as well as a past love interest of Time Drake, which would make sense why she was keeping tabs on Tim.
The internal monologue that Tim has that discusses Nightwing, Jason Todd, and Damian is very interesting and gives us a lot to unwrap. First, it would appear that Tim does agree with what Dick is going in Arkham, based solely on the language that he uses to describe Nightwing’s activities. Second, Tim mentions that Jason is working for the people that killed Bruce. Tim does not say the Magistrate. We learn in Nightwing that Dick believes that the Magistrate has killed Bruce, but the Peacekeepers hint at that the Magistrate is not directly responsible. Does Jason Todd work for the Magistrate? Is there another group that was responsible for the death of Batman? The masks that the Peacekeepers wear are eerily similar to Red Hood’s mask. This leads me to believe that Jason has an elite position within the Magistrate.
The scuffle with the cyber, Robin, and Spoiler shows up how the cybers have developed thus far. The cybers are resistant now to EMP blasts, which is concerning because they are robots. Like I mentioned earlier, the Magistrate and their cybers are becoming more powerful with each new storyline in the universe. This leads Tim to do more research to learn about the material that the Magistrate is using for their cybers. This is where we are introduced to Darcy. However, I tried to do research on Darcy, but I could not find any information on her. Darcy does wear a cape and she has high tech hearing-aids. Darcy gives us more information on the material that the Magistrate is using for their cybers. Lazarus Resin is the material that is being used and the League of Assassins is extracting it from the Lazarus pits. Does this mean that the Magistrate is working with the League of Assassins? Is that who Jason has joined forces? Did the League kill Batman? All these questions are opened up from the discovery of the Lazarus Resin. Overall, this story did start to expand on what is going on in the Future State Universe for the Bat Family.
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