Welcome back to the best part of your month…BOF’s Detective Comics review! Gotham is on fire, werewolves run the streets, anyone of importance has extra limbs, and Batman is running around with watercolor paint on his chest. THIS IS BATMAN!
I can’t tell if this is a Batman, Universal Monsters, or Stranger Things comic; it is all over the place. Someone at DC should reel Ram V back into reality, but with one issue left after this, who the hell cares? Joker’s Daughter is giving speeches that rival Leto’s Joker in the Schneider Cut (IYKYK), Six-Eyed Sally, and Ten-Eyed Man are trying too hard to be like Madame Web. This book is filled with dull action and a poor story from the first page. Towards the end of the book, I thought I was reading Batman: Off World. Are these aliens? Where did they come from? I still don’t know how the Wolf Man ended up in this book.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON OUT HERE!?
This is a bad book and a horrible story from a very talented writer. I have no idea what Ram V was going for here. I can’t properly review this book because I think it lacks any serious narrative. This is the type of book you get when you dump the toy chest out, and all you collect are Batman and Star Trek figures.
On the bright side, we have one more issue to address. Then, hopefully, the Detective will rebound. I can’t recommend spending money on this crap. In all my years of reading Batman, I have never read a tale as pretentious and full of itself as this story. Instead, I would read Batman Confidential #7-12 repeatedly every day for the rest of my life rather than this trash. This run will go down as one of the worst Batman runs post-No Man’s Land.
One issue left, thank the lord! – Peter Verra
GRADE: F-
