(SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ANYONE WHO HASN’T READ THE ISSUE AND IS GOING TO)

I mean seriously, unless they’ve changed Vandal Savage’s origin recently, how the hell would Batman know the kind of meteorite that changed a caveman into Vandal Savage in the Paleolithic Era? Sure, Batman’s the world’s greatest detective, but him being able to figure that out is a stretch — and I’m willing to suspend disbelief and accept that a meteorite can make one caveman immortal and grant another the ability to resurrect himself in the first place. It feels like that was just in there to move the plot along because the writers weren’t sure how to establish that connection otherwise.

I’m not going to give up on the title just yet because I feel like it has a little more promise (as you’d expect a cult of nekkid, minion-flesh-devouring Vandal Savages to have). The one big thing I fear is that in order to finally make The Insiders (silly, silly name) more threatening themselves, the writers will make them way too powerful so our heroes don’t stand a chance, and then wrap the whole thing up with some deux ex machina Batman left behind for Owlman to use (he seems to have a gadget handy for every other situation) and end up overshadowing the heroes we picked the book up to read about in the first place.