The follow up to Batman: The Abduction, but the joke's either run out or Alan Grant just isn't having as much fun with it. Critically the story takes itself far too seriously, so instead of the Grey-tastic fun the cover promises we get a poe-faced, sub-X-Files thriller.

If you're enough into comics that you've dug this out, you've read similar conspiracy stories before. Batman breaking into Area 51 should be a lot more fun than this. ( )

The Batman goes undercover to thwart a quasi-government mind-control project, and to rescue two inadvertent victims who have infiltrated it with the same goal. Not bad, just not particularly memorable. ( )