Review: Batman '89 #4

This issue opens with a march where Drake Winston attacks the police in ways that are all too trendy. Then we cut to Bruce in the Batcave, where he set up the giant penny, and he gets some microfilm from Alfred that will explain Drake's history.  At the hospital, Dent, completely out of his mind with a split personality, escapes. Alfred picks up Drake to take to the Manor to meet with Bruce, as he reads the microfilm that Drake's ancestors started a car company that was then taken over by Bruce's ancestors.  When Drake gets to the Manor, he and Bruce have a very long conversion that ends with Drake knowing Bruce is Batman, Bruce knowing Drake is the poncho costumed vigilante, and writer Sam Hamm recycles the "Alfred with a gun" bit from the first draft of his Batman script (although now changed to a taser).  Selina shows up at Police HQ posing as a Shreck's Department Store geek squad tech to get into Barbara Gordon's computer.  Dent finds his way into an abandoned subway tunnel, where one side is destroyed and the other side is pristine. He decides to make this his hide out. Back at Wayne Manor, Bruce leads Drake into the Batcave and a partnership is born.

In the first two issues of Batman '89 not much happened other than setting up characters. Then last issue and this issue are too crammed with plot development. This series is paced very poorly. Then there is the continued pre-occupation with being "woke" as the top priority for this series.  It continues to be an unpleasant read.  This issue earns a C-.