Purple Smoking Jacket

<p class="">Welcome back to the forth episode of Troubling Issues - a podcast where we do deep dives on noteworthy comic books. Some good, some bad, but they are all interesting.</p><p class="">In this Bat-episode we take a look at Batman 497 from July 1993 wherein a certain Bat-Man suffers a spinal injury.</p><p class="">Episode 4</p><p class="">Colin Smith: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinwsmith/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinwsmith/</a></p><p class="">Black Cockatoo: <a href="https://www.ensemble.com.au/shows/black-cockatoo/" target="_blank">https://www.ensemble.com.au/shows/black-cockatoo/</a></p><p class="">Asterix: <a href="https://www.asterix.com/" target="_blank">https://www.asterix.com</a></p><p class="">Death in the Family: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_A_Death_in_the_Family" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_A_Death_in_the_Family</a></p><p class="">Batman 497: <a href="https://www.comixology.com/Batman-1940-2011-497/digital-comic/14023" target="_blank">https://www.comixology.com/Batman-1940-2011-497/digital-comic/14023</a></p><p class="">Batman: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(comic_book)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(comic_book)</a></p><p class="">Kelly Jones: <a href="https://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/kelley_jones.asp" target="_blank">https://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/kelley_jones.asp</a></p><p class="">Jim Aparo: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Aparo" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Aparo</a></p><p class="">Venom: <a href="https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batman:_Venom" target="_blank">https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batman:_Venom</a></p><p class="">Bane: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bane_(DC_Comics)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bane_(DC_Comics)</a></p><p class="">Doug Moench: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Moench" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Moench</a></p><p class="">Tim Drake: <a href="https://