Written by Scott Lobdell
Art by Kenneth Rocafort
The Solicitation
• "NIGHT OF THE OWLS" continues here!• The Court of Owls is attacking, and the last person in the world you'd expect to answer Batman's call to arms is the RED HOOD!• Also featuring MR. FREEZE!
Preview
The Comic
By now you get how the Night of the Owls work in each bat-book. Introduce a talon, give him a back story if you wish, and then have your title character(s) fight them.
Fuck that, let's go straight to what makes me want to scream "why" at the top of my lungs.
The Court is going after Mr. Freeze because Freeze backed out of some business deal they had about reanimating their Talons. Because the Court hasn't been doing that for years on their own.
Red Hood goes in to save Freeze, because he really needs protection from an enemy whose only weakness is the freezing cold.
Red Hood and his Talon go off and the Talon says he is ready to die, so Red Hood pulls the trigger for him. Because these guys don't have the ability to regenerate or anything....
Seriously. when you break down these "tie-in" books, they are a real let down. This should have been a story that was limited to the main bat-title and Nightwing.
The Art
Same issues as before - too much white space, unnecessary panel shapes, etc. I'm thinking that my overall problems with the art on this book will stay until either someone shows me how wonderful this art actually is in a way that tells me it is art, or another artist comes in to cover things for an issue.
On that note though, I do have to give Rocafort credit for having drawn each and every issue thus far. That is something that is becoming uncommon around the new 52 titles.
The Cover
See other Night of the Owl tie in covers, place hero and a Talon in a fight sequence.
Grades
Words: 6/10
Pictures: 3/10
Recommend: SKIP IT.
Buy Next Issue: Looking back and trying to determine why this comic is still being picked up month in and month out by me is strange. Next book if being skipped unless the preview pages can change my mind.
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