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NML Crossing, Episode 031 - Batman #558 (1998)

It's time for a situation report!  Let's take a beat and catch ourselves up on all things post-Quake Gotham City... with an eye toward its uncertain future!
Plus: A dip into the comics journos of the day in Wizard #82, and a collector-focused installment of the NMaiLbag!
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NML Crossing, Episode 030 - Batman Chronicles #14 (1998)

Perhaps the most off-beat issue/episode yet!
Where else can you hear about an old man giving himself a cottage cheese sponge bath, a child who'd rather be eaten than see her captor beaten up... and also have a text-story in a turn of the century comic book?!  It's an odd one, all right!
Plus: A very Jack Drake-focused NMaiLbag!
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NML Crossing, Episode 029 - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #79 (1998)

Wrapping up our two-parter with a bang... well, a boom.  The supervillain team-up didn't go as smoothly as the Mad Hatter would've hoped... but, hope itself now (briefly) reigns among Bruce Wayne's Junior-Entrepreneur Club!
But all 'at is just preamble to the return of the raucous NMaiLbag!
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NML Crossing, Episode 028 - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #78 (1998)

Today our "dark horse" Bat-Book delivers what might just be one of the tentpole issues of the entire NML run.  What can Gotham City do when all of the non-Wayne-owned companies and industries threaten to bail?  Thankfully, the people... those who'll stay... have some ideas, but will it (can it) be enough?!
We also get a peek at an upcoming (super?) villain team-up!
 
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NML Crossing, Episode 027 - Detective Comics #724 (1998)

It's not that the people of Gotham don't believe he exists... it's that they no longer believe in HIM.  What happens when the urban legend of the City having a protector becomes moot... since, what has he done for us lately?  Well, it leads to a crisis of confidence for our Caped Crusader... and it lends a whole lotta weight to our "new normal".  If you've always known Batman as being the "coolest" guy in any room he enters... this is an issue you'll need to read to believe.
We've also got a Letters Page to discuss! 
Plus: A wildly confusing (for me) NMaiLbag!
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NML Crossing, Episode 026 - Batman #557 (1998)

Gotham City gets a visit from... a New Blood?!
The Bruce Wayne Batman has his first team up with the man called Ballistic... and, well... that's about the size of it!
Plus: A hoppin' NMaiLbag!
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NML Crossing, Episode 025 - Batman: Shadow of the Bat #77 (1998)

Luck is for losers... but, luck'll beat skill any day!
In today's episode we're checking in with a Professor called Arwin, who no longer believes in Darwin... and is looking to prove his own theory using the Caped Crusader as his test subject!  Lots of interesting food for thought... and, as has become a trend... plenty of callbacks to bits 'n bobs from that New York Magazine article!
Plus: The return of the NMaiLbag, featuring a discussion of comic book annuals, that is as fun as it is frustrating!
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NML Crossing, Episode 024 - Batman #556 (1998)

Back to the flagship for a (relatively) quiet issue, where we check in on the man behind the mask(s), Bruce Wayne, to see how he's handling the Aftershock Era.  We get a bit of tacked-on action, but this is mostly (thankfully) a character piece!
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