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Virtually all comic books do pic related

They have a story that is self contained, just Batman in Gotham, albiet in this particular story they introduced two new superheroes, but they were new to that story and were introduced there and there, it's still contained.

But then, out of absolutely nowhere, all these freaks show up
>We're Batman's friends
since when? who are you, I've never seen these people before, where did they come from
This is 100% written for people who are already intimately familiar with the Justice League, whatever that is. Any new reader cannot start with Batman 2016, it isn't written for them, it's written for 50 year olds who have already read thousands of issues from hundreds of titles.

Any new reader at this very moment has checked out and will not be buying the next issue