Batman: The Detective #1 Review: Introducing the Unnecessarily Dark Knight Batman: The Detective #1 begins a 6-part miniseries from writer Tom Taylor, artist Andy Kubert, and colorist Brad Anderson set in the midst of DC’s Infinite Frontier line. The series begins with a tragic event in England that quickly pulls Batman into a fraught investigation that proves to be frighteningly personal. The creative talent assembled to tell this superhero-mystery is top-notch, but the underlying conspiracy may prevent them from elevating this story above the tawdry and familiar. The inciting incident sets the stakes plenty high and justifies the sprawl of a miniseries with extended page counts as a plane crashes into the countryside killing 147 passengers on board. If that wasn’t enough to demand serious attention, someone also paints the phrase “BATMAN 147” on a nearby structure because it’s all really about Batman. That’s a running theme in this issue; no matter what arises, the only thing that matters is how it connects to Batman.