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A Very DC Rebirth Holiday by Paul Dini

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book can be divided into several parts over its 160 + pages length. Most of it is Holiday-related stories from the DCU. About the first of it has a party by Harley Quinn where heroes and villains alike have shown as a framing device. Later parts of the book include a Batman annual with holiday stories in it, and there's Harley Quinn's issues.

The main portion of the Holiday Party was fine. Most of the stories were cute (Superman having to get a present for Jon right before Christmas), and a few were even good, the Flash's Christmas Carol told the story of how he and the Rogues called a truce for the Holidays for the first time. I also liked the Epiphany tale with the Green Lanterns. Others were a little pointless. The Wonder Woman/Constantine story was below average. For the most part, the bulk of these stories were cute.

I thought the same of the Batman stories. They were okay. I particularly liked the story about Alfred trying to retrain the Joker's Dog Ace.

The final part of it is an Issue of Harley Quinn's comic book where she journeys into Santa's mind. What can I say. This one is just purely trashy. It tries to be funny and fails. Very unpleasant to read, and also makes this a book you can't give to kids.

Overall, without the Harley story, I'd give this 3.5. With it in there, I'm taking it down to a three. There are some good stories, but man that last one...Trashy.



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