Oil Spoils or Oils Well That Ends Well! Batman: Gotham Adventures 23 Review

"Do The Wrong Thing" is a spin on Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" movie title. Scott Peterson opens with a grand Tim Levins splash page - The Caped Crusader has a gun to his cowled head. He's facing a desperate criminal. A father desperate for medication for his sick daughter. Not a fun place to be. A high fever. No money and no insurance. That leads to a bad decision. The lesson Batman shares with Tim Drake is this: sometimes people do the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Later, Bruce Wayne finds that a business meeting scheduled with one Omar Alhazred has been cancelled! He's disappeared! Further digging finds that more and more of Bruce's business associates have disappeared! Seventeen. They all seem to have a few things in common. One, Preston Wainwright, sold everything and moved into seclusion to the south of France.

The only clue is "The Prince of Wales".

Tim Levins' art is spectacular. There is an amazing sequence on the middle of page seven. Batman somersaulting! 

Peterson, Levins, Beatty, Loughridge and Harkins are once again in fine form here. The through line is "doing the wrong thing for the right reasons". Obviously, Batman's adversary this time is Ra's al Ghul. He maintains lofty, "honorable" goals, but goes about them the wrong way.

Batman: Gotham Adventures 23, "Do The Wrong Thing" earns four stars.