Elegy of Sand continues* and Batman's hallucinatory trek across a desert between worlds becomes ever more dangerous as he finds himself face-to-face against...well* you'll just have to wait and find out. Meanwhile* in Gotham* a strange Utopia is blooming as the Orghams continue to hypnotize the public into believing that Batman never existed. And as this knight-less city thrives* one must ask...did Gotham ever need Batman in the first place?