Batman and the Mad Monk
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Batman and the Mad Monk is a six part miniseries about Batman published by DC Comics, written and pencilled by Matt Wagner. It is the second part of the Batman: Dark Moon Rising limited series and the story focus on Batman's first encouter with the Mad Monk, one of his earliest enemies from the golden age of comics, in the current continuity.
The story is a sequel to Batman and the Monster Men, picking up where it left, set in a period in Batman's life after Batman: Year One and the Red Hood events revealed in the flashbacks of Batman: The Killing Joke, and before Batman: The Man Who Laughs and Batman: The Long Halloween.
[edit] Characters
- Batman / Bruce Wayne
- Julie Madison
- Niccolai Tepes a.k.a the Mad Monk
- Sal Maroni
- Norman Madison
- Dala
- Police Captain James Gordon
- Alfred Pennyworth
- District Attourney Harvey Dent
- Carmine Falcone
[edit] Plot
After the case of the monster men, the Captain Gordon and Batman start investigating various corpses that start appearing in the city completely drained from their blood and featuring big biting marks in their neck, which seems to be product of a murderous ritual. All the leads start to point towards a mysterious Brotherhood, which at the time, keeps abducting adult only childs from other cities that are residing in Gotham.
In Batman and the Monster Men, when Batman saves Marony from Professor Hugo Strange's monster men, as a favor to Julie Madison, he forces the mobster to call Norman's debt square. However, a proud man and somewhat out of his mind after his encounter with Batman, once his business go steady, Norman wants nothing to do with Sal's money. Norman first tries to deliver the owed money directly to Sal, who because of Batman's warning, wants nothing to do with it and rejects it. After that, to Sal's complete humiliation, Norman goes to Carmine Falcone to deliver the money.
In the process, Norman's unbalanced mental state becomes obvious to his daughter Julie, who resources to misterious Dala and her bizarre mentor Niccolai Tepes, who is actually the leader of the Brotherhood and instead of setting therapy settions with her father, he drains some blood from and hymnotices her in order to get security passwords to her father's bank accounts. Conviniently enough, at the same time Norman has decided to prepare to a final confrontation with Sal Maroni and set all his inheritage papers in order for Julie. Norman shoots Maroni but he fails and his bodyguards hill the business man easily in "self defense".
Once Tepes gets the passwords, he decides to turn Julie into another victim of the Brotherhood's ritual, but Batman shows off in time to prevent it. Dala dies trying to kill Julie and the Mad Monk is electrocuted by lightning when he fights Batman at the roof of his castle.
After learning her father has died, knowing Batman's secret identity, Julie decides to leave Gotham and dedicate her life to philantropic activities.
