Its Mind Con\u00adtrol \/ Mem\u00ado\u00adry Manip\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion week in the Bat\u00adman uni\u00adverse as the Leviathan sto\u00adry\u00adline con\u00adtin\u00adues past the hav\u00adoc of the Flash\u00adpoint and into the \u201c52\u201d era and the Birds of Prey bat\u00adtle an ene\u00admy who uses inno\u00adcent (and not so inno\u00adcent) indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals not only as unwit\u00adting spies but bombs as well.<\/p>\n
The post-52<\/em> Bat\u00adman: Incor\u00adpo\u00adrat\u00aded sto\u00adry\u00adline seems unchanged from the pre-52<\/em> era, a con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion of Bat\u00adman\u2019s quest to dis\u00adcov\u00ader the truth behind Leviathan, a ruth\u00adless inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal crim\u00adi\u00adnal orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To that end, Bat\u00adman start\u00aded fran\u00adchis\u00ading the Bat\u00adman name inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly, build\u00ading an army of crime fight\u00aders across the world to bat\u00adtle and equal\u00adly world-wide threat.<\/p>\n This issue is a spe\u00adcial issue with two sto\u00adries, both writ\u00adten by Grant Mor\u00adri\u00adson, so expect weird\u00adness espe\u00adcial\u00adly of the mind-warp\u00ading kind. The first sto\u00adry is about an exclu\u00adsive girl\u2019s school that is actu\u00adal\u00adly a school for crim\u00adi\u00adnals, espe\u00adcial\u00adly assas\u00adsins and killers. Bat\u00adgirl, the daugh\u00adter of a for\u00admer Bat\u00adman foe, infil\u00adtrates the school to dis\u00adcov\u00ader it had been tak\u00aden over to pro\u00adduce mind-con\u00adtrolled killers for Leviathan. The sec\u00adond sto\u00adry con\u00adsists of a weird\u00adly con\u00adfus\u00ading sequence of the same con\u00adfronta\u00adtion played over and over with dif\u00adfer\u00ading results, until at last the final result reveals the true iden\u00adti\u00adty of the leader of Leviathan and its true purpose.<\/p>\n The sto\u00adry opens with the Birds of Prey (con\u00adsist\u00ading of Bat\u00adgirl, Black Canary, Katana, Poi\u00adson Ivy and Star\u00adling) rid\u00ading an out-of-con\u00adtrol train with sev\u00ader\u00adal unwit\u00adting (and one wit\u00adting but not com\u00adpli\u00adant) bombs aboard, ready to be men\u00adtal\u00adly trig\u00adgered by hear\u00ading a nurs\u00adery rhyme. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, the one vic\u00adtim who is aware of her state is Black Canary, who is saved from death by a good right to the jaw from Starling.<\/p>\n How\u00adev\u00ader, the real sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is more insid\u00adi\u00adous: the oth\u00ader peo\u00adple weren\u2019t walk\u00ading bombs, they were walk\u00ading, unwit\u00adting spies. Every\u00adthing they saw and heard was unde\u00adtectably trans\u00admit\u00adted to the orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion called the Clean\u00aders (who use invis\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty suits) and run by some\u00adone named Choke, who was the men\u00adtal voice that was about to kill Black Canary. A very angry Poi\u00adson Ivy used her own spe\u00adcial way with men to get the infor\u00adma\u00adtion the team want\u00aded about the loca\u00adtion of the Clean\u00aders and Star\u00adling described exact\u00adly where that loca\u00adtion was. Each team mem\u00adber used their own spe\u00adcial abil\u00adi\u00adties to enter the Clean\u00aders head\u00adquar\u00adters. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, what they found was a room full of sud\u00adden\u00adly not-so-invis\u00adi\u00adble Clean\u00aders and the mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous voice telling them:<\/p>\nBirds of Prey #4<\/h2>\n