Guns and Roses Foreword

Three months after the events of "City of Sorrows" and approximately seven months after the events of The Dark Knight, the Joker has been taken off the streets, but new threats to Gotham continue to emerge. In the aftermath of the Riddler's incarceration, new and bolder criminal leaders are rising to the top of Gotham's underworld. At the same time, inspired by the Mob Murders, a new wave of vigilantism is sweeping the city. Not just Batman imitators, but costumed crime fighters of all sorts are hoping to restore the temporary peace induced by the Riddler's brutal methods.

Commissioner Gordon has his hands full, as usual. Jonathan Crane, the infamous Scarecrow, is still at large since his escape from the prison ferry during the first Joker's reign of terror. A brutal new drug cartel has formed in the power vacuum left behind by the Mob Murders, claiming an ever-widening swath of Gotham as its own. The new cartel is pushing a new drug--a highly addictive hallucinogen that is hooking not just the poor, but the rich as well. Bruce Wayne is among those suspected of addiction--his declining health has fueled a firestorm of media speculation.

In the meantime, Harleen Quinnzel and Whisper Lieng attempt to create new lives for themselves in the aftermath of the brutality of the Joker and the Riddler. Sandwiched between gang territory and on the run from the law, the two must turn to Harley's old schoolmate Pamela Isley.

But is Isley really the right woman to trust with the formula for immortality?

We're baaack! Expect the first chapter of Guns and Roses in approximately a week.

P.S. Yes, we know hallucinogens aren't normally addictive; who said this was an ordinary hallucinogen?