BATMAN BEYOND: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TRADE PAPERBACK
A terminally-ill patient by the name of Jatts steals the Matter Master’s wand from a metahuman facility. The chemical within his body reacts to the wand allowing him to change the composition of any matter with just a touch. As he tries to get away Jatts is intercepted by the Justice League. Jatts hides at Fields-Rich Mall and turns it into a fortress so no one can get in or out holding hostages inside including the mother and brother of Terry McGinnis. Justice League attempt to rescue the hostages however cannot guarantee any casualties. Terry as Batman is not willing to take the risk.
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
- Bruce Wayne walks Terry through on how to deal with the Justice League
- Terry sucker punches Green Lantern, electrocutes Barda, and burns Micron
- Terry joins the Justice League attempt to access the mall through the subway
- Jatts becomes the new Matter Master
- The Justice League and Batman take on the Matter Master until he overloads
- Terry McGinnis joins the Justice League under several conditions
LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT: MAX
- Terry poses as Nightwing kidnapping the former detective who revealed Dick Grayson’s secret
- Dick Grayson announces to the public that he was the first employee for Batman Incorporated
- Maxine Gibson tracks down the hacker who stole her data leading to the villain Undercloud
- Undercloud blackmails Maxine to partner up or something will happen to her friends
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- Dana breaks up with Terry as her brother Doug is released from prison
- Paxton Powers is released from Iron Heights
- Union negotiations break down and Bruce Wayne faces their new negotiator Mr. Godfrey
- Bruce Wayne suspects Godfrey to be G.Gordon Godfrey from the 1986 DC event Legends
- Batman follows Paxton to a Wayne-Powers facility which blows up revealing the return of Blight
- Blight is behind the union troubles at Wayne-Powers forcing their stock prices to plummet
- Batman escapes with Paxton and takes him to police custody for his safety
- Bruce plans on buying back all the shares of Wayne-Powers to lure the culprit out
- Batman defeats Blight as Bruce deals with G. Glen Godfrey
- Bruce gains his shares and renames Wayne-Powers to Wayne Incorporated
LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT: INQUE
- The origin of Inque is revealed as she loses both of her parents through violence
- She was taken from a war-torn country to be used as a sex slave
- After arriving in Gotham and escaping she discovers she is pregnant
- Camdus conducted experiments on her turning her into Inque
- Inque keeps track of her daughter after giving her up who later betrays her
- She is secretly working for Dr. Thawne of Camdus who gives her Mutagen as payment
- Her daughter is fatally ill so Inque gives her apart of herself to help her
RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5
