Beware The Batman
#12 - Attraction
Original Airdate - February 18th, 2014 (Home Video Premiere)
Unbeknownst to Alfred or Katana, Batman has been making visits to Blackgate Penitentiary to visit his former nemesis Magpie. Helping her to regain some of her former memories, Batman has always felt guilty that she did not get the psychological care she needed. When Magpie sees Batman with Katana, however, she becomes horribly jealous and breaks free. Seeing Katana as a threat who doesn't understand the "real" Batman beneath the mask, Magpie captures Katana and buries her alive somewhere in Gotham Cemetery. With Katana's air running out, Batman must find the grave before it's too late!

Written by Len Wein
Directed by Curt Geda
Media by The World's Finest

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I was glad to see Magpie back and explored more as a character along with her romantic fixation on Batman. She's certainly a lot crazier and more off-her rocker than Catwoman, but does hold the same position as a villain that's interested in Batman whose accepted the lure of the darkness and the rush it gives, but at the very least is much more entrapped in it than Catwoman traditionally is. Not to mention she's exposing much more skin with her costume than most of Catwoman's modern suits and that's saying something.

It's nice to see Batman placing importance on rehabilitating the criminally insane, people who deserve better treatment than being just locked up in a penitentiary with common criminals. Obviously his attempts with Magpie failed because he visited her a bit too often and didn't take into account how that might effect the feelings she already has for him and how that could possibly lead to her acting out because of her psychosis. Maybe he'd be better off helping the criminally insane as Bruce Wayne, with donations and philanthropy working towards psychiatric care for those in need of it or possibly recommending the use of Arkham instead of Blackgate for locking up crazy super-villains?