Bruce Wayne has been accused of the murder of billionaire industrialist Simon Stagg, and now Metamopho is on the warpath to find out why. Can Superman and his new partner, Robin, get to the bottom of things in time?
The last issue of Batman/Superman: World's Finest ended on something of a surprise note, with Bruce on the front page of the Daily Planet, handcuffed and under arrest for the murder of a rival businessman. Thankfully, being incredibly rich and having the best lawyers that money can buy, Bruce is out on bail, and is able to return to the Batcave to try and figure out who's behind the crime. Unfortunately, he's also under heavy scrutiny and can't just vanish to go be Batman, so the actual legwork for the case is having to fall to Clark and Dick. I really enjoy Dick Grayson in this book, he's full of fun energy, and he works really well with Clark; so getting to see the two of them having some time together to work a case without Batman lurking around.
The two of them eventually catch up with Metamorpho in Vensuela, where he's mashing up the robots of a local criminal in his search for answers. There's a great moment in this scene where a town gets set on fire during the fight and civilians are in danger. Metamorpho jumps into action, and keeps transforming into different things. The scene is accompanied by a commentary by Robin, who's explaining to the reader just what Rex is doing. It's really cool to see some of the versatility of the character, and the narration helps to make it clear what he's doing, and how his powers allows him to do it..
Whilst all of this is happening, Bruce recieves a cal from Oliver Queen, who's looking to work with Bruce on develoment of new AI tech. Ollie previously passed on this, and his sudden change of heart seems to surprise Bruce. Especially as he described some of Bruce's tech as fascistic; classic Ollie. This gets Bruce to look into other billionaire tech company leaders, and he begins to suspect that some people have been replaced. Clark uses his X-ray vision whilst at Stagg's funeral, and confirms that the man everyone saw die was in fact a sophisticated robot. After some investigation the heroes figure out that Professor Ivo is involved, and that he's likely forcing Will Magnus to help him.
The final moments of this issue are fantastic stuff. You've got the horror of the Metal Men being melted down, their faces still visible in their vats, crying out for help, whilst Robin and Superman enter a room of robots in various stages of completion that look like a bunch of Terminators. And of course, Dan Mora has given us another fantastic new design in the form of the Ultre-Morpho. I've been a big fan of Mora's work ever since I saw him working on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and have loved seeing him work on DC's roster of characters; but there's something about the Ultra-Morpho that feels very tokusatsu inspired, and reminds me of that previous work. I love it.
Mora's art is incredible throughout, and the way he draws the shifting and altering nature of Metamopho's body is some of the best depictions of the character I've seen. Half of the panels he's in there's some part of him that's in motion, that's changing into something else, and it keeps the character feeling alive and interesting. The scene where he's saving the town by shifting into different things also looks fantastic.
The next issue looks set to be pretty big, and it seems like the team are going to have their hands full dealing with this new enemy. But, if they can fix the Metal Men in time they'll at least have some extra allies. Plus, it'll be cool to see the Metal Men in action in this series.
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