Plot: Scott Lobdell
Dialogue: Fabian Nicieza
Pencils: Brett Booth
Inks: Norm Rapmund
Solicitation and Preview
Review
Remember last time we saw Tim and he was in his Red Robin costume? Not anymore, he's back to the old one, complete with his wings.
Remember when we saw Joker painted something red in Red Hood's mask? No resolution on that, so maybe Batman #17.
Remember that panel from last issue that had some guy in a costume and then the next panel had Black canary screaming? And wondering if they had something to do with what happened to the Teen Titans? Yea, I'm a little lost too, but apparently readers of Teen Titans know what is going on there.
Remember Trigon and Raven making a one page interruption of this story? Yea, it happened right in the middle of the book, sorta like how Hugo Strange and Deathstroke showed up randomly in Red Hood #16.
In one eye roll we see the two former Robins fight, because apparently Jason forget his dad died and the guy Joker dressed up as his dad might still be his actual dad alive and well. In the next, joker says that he has Tim's dad too, but true to my theory that Joker doesn't know their real identities, it is revealed that it isn't Tim's dad.
Seriously, this was a hero vs. hero fight in which it shouldn't have happened. It was boring and cliche. It made about as much sense as the realism that Red Robin and Red Hood were handcuffed together the entire fight and the handcuffs kept growing or shrinking depending on the panel. Seriously, at one point we are presented with the idea that the chain stretches across both their bodies with their arms spread out. Why have them handcuffed to begin with?
And there was an editor's note referencing Tim doing something in a limo in Teen Titans #8. I hope he meant Teen Titans #0, because in #8 the Titans were captured and starting that horrible Culling event. Aw well, they can just fix it in the trade, just like how they switched Tim Drake's Robin name to Red Robin.
There is just so much wrong here that it is hard to determine what went right with the plot. The dialogue was decent. The art was just swimming in chaos. For the last of the Death of the Family crossover books of the Bat-family, I just expected more.
So sad. So sad.
Grades
Words: 2/10
Pictures: 3/10
General Feeling After Reading: Disappointment.
Buy Next Issue: Negative. Maybe when a different writer/artist is on it. Maybe.
No comments:
Post a Comment