In a surprising turn of events, the local store had both of last week's comics I wanted. Maybe he's gotten things stabilized a bit. That'd be helpful.
The lady with the scythe isn't there to fight Batgirl. She's part of that group that can turn their blood to a weapon, and since Shiva was descended from that line, Cass has the potential as well. So they want her to join them. Tenji, too, once she knows he's also Shiva's kid.
Of course, the offer is "join or die," and Cass kicked her in the face, so fight's on. Tenji stands up to his dad, determined to help, but when he almost immediately gets injured, Cass flips out and starts beating the crap out of blood lady. Bronze Tiger stops her, but Wu Lin won't take the hint and puts everything she's got left into basically a hail of blood needles. Only some of which Cass is able to keep from hitting Bronze Tiger's back, though he doesn't seem to bothered either way.
And then the third weirdo arrives. She was sent by Nyssa al Ghul, offering Cassandra an opportunity to team up with the League of Shadows, and her dad was the nice Shiva devotee who died very quickly several issues ago. So Cass agrees to come along, and Tenji's coming too, with his dad's blessing and some cool tiger claw gauntlet things. And maybe Bronze Tiger will stop hiding on a ranch and go out in the world to do some good? Maybe?
So, with this 3-issue arc in the books, what did it get us? Cass has a half-brother who looks up to her, but had an entirely different, sheltered upbringing. Which would seem to make him a liability in what's undoubtedly coming. Cass learned a little more about her mother, and is still trying to deal with the fact she's dead, or maybe the fact that Cass is bothered that Shiva's dead. If she is. I retain serious doubts on that score. And now Cassandra's returning to a place that was not a good part of her life, League of Assassins/Shadows-related nonsense from the ugly years of Johns and Beechen insisting that because her parents were evil killers, Cass would also therefore become a killer.
Marc's actually seeing his therapist! Yay! Because he has a problem. Well, at least he's seeking a second opinion. The Wrecker is being haunted, and seeing as he helped free Khonshu during Blood Hunt, which meant Marc could be resurrected, he figures he's owed a favor. Of course, Tigra and Hunter's Moon paid him, but as Marc notes, the Wrecker is the kind of guy to always expect a favor to be repaid in kind. Just like himself.
That seems to suggest the Wrecker is never going to consider the debt repaid, in which case maybe Marc ought to just sic Thor, sorry, Beta Ray Bill on the guy and call it a day. But he doesn't, so out comes the enchanted skeleton armor from that one Ellis/Shalvey story, and commence to ghost punchin'!
The ghosts prove resistant to punching, and in fact, get stronger as they're pissed off Wrecker found someone to defend him. Marc borrows the crowbar, and combining that with his outfit seems enough to start shredding the ghosts. At which point that Layla character from the TV show pops up, as whatever role she has as this Scarlet Scarab - I never finished the show, so hell if I know her deal - to advocate for Marc to get out of the way and let the ghosts take revenge on their killer.
It's kind of ridiculous that Marc seemingly never questioned why these ghosts were hounding the Wrecker, and only the Wrecker (he mentions he called the rest of the Wrecking Crew for back-up, and they couldn't see them.) But Marc doesn't typically ask that when someone comes into his place looking for help, so why start now? He wants to divest himself of the debt, he thinks this is the way to do it, let's get it over with.
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