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Batman by Jeph Loeb

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Jul 26, 12

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Read from July 21 to 26, 2012

The sequel to The Long Halloween. It's very much a sequel in the sense that, basically, its the same story .

Loeb and Sale re-team once again to give Batman a new Cluedo murder mystery to solve. Much like The Long Halloween, the who's who of Batman's character catalogue appears, from Mr Freeze to the Calender Man. It doesn't add much to the story, other than the fact that they all team up, which doesn't make much sense. It does allow Sale to draw some pretty splash pages though.

Speaking of the art, I like Tim Sales style, and its the main reason I bothered to read this, but the Jokers jaw is much to big. He does draw a good Harvey Dent though. I like it when its made to look like Dent is made to look like he's missing half of his face, rather than just have burns.

Speaking of Dent, I do like how he's handled in this book. Gordon and Batman both feel regret over what happened to their friend, and still want to save him. But Dent is fully gone. It reminds of Dent from The Dark Knight, which is one of the best characterizations of the character.

Overall , its pretty passable. Its not, like, awful. Its just Loeb doing his usual thing of throwing everything including the kitchen sink in, and letting his artist do about 5 splash pages per issue. It looks good, the story is just kinda boring.

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