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WARNING : This article contains SPOILERS forThe Flash#65
Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval have brought " The Leontyne Price " crossing over to an goal withThe Flash#65 , and they may just have end Bruce Wayne aka . Batman and Barry ’s partnership right along with it . What set forth as the detective duo racing against time to give up Gotham Girl from destroying herself and others has wind up up creating an irreparable crack in the age - honest-to-goodness DC Comics friendly relationship , primarily because Batman ’s mentorship of Gotham Girl hits too close to home for Flashin the backwash ofHeroes in Crisis .
For months now , Barry Allen has been struggling with his abilities as a teacher after agitate with the younger Wallace , who allow for townspeople to joinTeen Titans , and send the quondam Wally to Sanctuary to find from his demons . That insecurity was compounded into crush sorrow when he and Iris learned thatWally had been killedin a massacre there , something that Barry understandably blamed himself for . Similarly , Bruce was experiencing his own crisis while dealing with one of the fresh members of theBat kinsperson , Claire Clover . After having lose countless friends and ally in the course of their crime - contend duty , Batman felt the weight of Gotham Girl ’s life on his berm much like Flash felt haunt by his own protégé ’s death .
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But despite being on the same page while taste to keep open Claire from the mysteriously gifted toxin she drug herself with , a poison that already down her pal in the crossover ’s previous issue , the succeeder of their endeavor becomes the impetus for their rift up inThe Fash # 65 . Bruce immediately prepares to take Gotham Girl back to the Batcave to recuperate , but Iris steps in with a smack and a tragical reminder:“All you ’ve done is create more danger . Put other Thomas Kyd in the line of work of fire . “Barry is n’t immune to her ire either , as she claims he ’s enable Batman by letting him take Claire back to a life of attempted valiance .
Whether it is Iris ' words that trigger Barry ’s self - reflection or else his ownguilt over Wally ’s fate , he can no longer twist a blind eye to Bruce and his mission to help Gotham Girl become a bomber in her own right . Introducing unexampled sidekicks has been a staple of Bruce ’s life for as long as Batman has been around , and he never gives up disregardless of the injury both he and his extended family unit members stick out at the hand of villain . Claire , for example , was already garble by Psycho Pirate and grieving her brother Henry ’s death prior to his zombified resurrection and her own as - yet - unreadable brainwashing in this crossover . So who is right ? Bruce , who argues that the best affair he can do is guide someone who design to become a sub with or without his help ? Or Barry , who now believes they ’re hold open aliveness at the expense of their own ?
That ’s what " The Price " really comes down to : the price that heroes make up to protect their loved ace . But when their loved I are make up the terms too - either because they ’ve been purposely bring in into the world of capes and masks like Wally and Claire , or because they must carry the gist of deprivation as bystander like Iris - then who is really winning ? Though that ’s the motion that ’s eating off at Barry internally , he chooses instead to redirect his nuisance outward and bring up all the resentment he ’s been withholding from Bruce . “The expectant trick the Batman ever pulled was make masses consider he always has a plan,“the Scarlet Speedster spit out , sidelong referring to the detective ’s inability to forestall the massacre at Sanctuary or keep open any of their friend during Tom King’sHeroes in Crisis .
Naturally , this line of reasoning devolves into a trading of insults and shortcomings between the two heroes . Their emotion are too bleak from their late losses for them to hear to ground , and they reach every possible weak point from beat Robins to Wally being forgotten after Flashpoint . Barry exits the premises before yield into the temptation to hit Bruce a hundred times before the other homo could even get in one poke , but he does leave his ex - friend with one last zinger:“I’m not you . "
Perhaps if they had combat things out physically , the emotional wounds from their words could have heal in the mental process . Instead , devotee must wait to see how this vast divide will be address in succeeding issues ofBatmanandThe Flash -not to mention what will occur when they hybridise route inJustice Leagueor during the next big upshot . The sudden going of their partnership is certain to add to their burdens , especially when they also presently share the infliction of collapse romantic kinship due to their crime - fight back lifestyles . With such parallel stories , it ’s ironic that their worldviews are too different to provide for empathy .
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The Flash # 65is available now fromDC Comics .
