Maybe I'm generous today or maybe Tynion has managed to drop my expectations so low that even a half-decent issue makes me somewhat interested but this was better than his last issues of Batman. I liked Federici's art, he's a great artist. Unfortunately for him the book is set up in such a way that he couldn't shine at his brightest. Office scenes or Oracle's lair won't help him much. But still, it was nice seeing his art again. I enjoyed the first pages of Scarecrow's dialogue with Saint and Batman, it does feel like Tynion is putting some effort to elevate Scarecrow and it kinda works. I still couldn't give one damn about the Unsanity Collective, cringiest name/concept ever, the Harley, Ivy and Gardener (another annoying Tynion character that doesn't add anything to the Batman mythos) bit, the Alleytown bit or Tim Fox but Scarecrow, PK-01 and even Oracle's bits were decent. I'm sure down the line Tynion will make me regret hoping something good will come out from this because he is the type of writer who's not capable of developing a good concept but for now this was ok.