batman vol 4 zero year secret city scott snyder

His strategist out-thought him, though, and tendered his resignation. Learning of this, Philip confronted Nygma, blaming him. Not long after returning home, the Red Hood Gang blew up the Park Row brownstone with Bruce inside. After storming off angrily, Bruce encountered Nygma, who revealed both his penchant for riddles and the fact that Philip had given more to the Red Hood Gang than just weapons. At the museum, though, Philip outed Bruce's return to the media.

Finding little success in his battle with the Red Hood, and in conflict with Alfred about the best way to proceed, Bruce agreed to meet Phillip at the museum in the hopes of preventing the sale of WayneTech devices to the gang through his uncle's subsidiaries. When Bruce refused, Nygma suggested Phillip have him killed. He had also gained control of Wayne Enterprises in Bruce's absence, and had hired a strategist in Edward Nygma, on whose advice he urged Bruce to return to the company. Despite trying to remain off the grid, Bruce's uncle Philip Kane had kept tabs on him.

Bruce Wayne temporarily became a voluntary patient at Arkham Asylum, almost going through with a shock therapy that would erase his very identity so as to avoid his grief, but he backed out at the last second, and never told this to even his butler, Alfred Pennyworth. With only his mission in mind and no care for his legacy as a Wayne, Bruce moved himself out of Wayne Manor and into a brownstone on Park Row from which he based his early attempts to infiltrate the Red Hood Gang after only six weeks back in Gotham.

Batman vol 4 zero year secret city scott snyder