BOYS' CLUB! Punchline and the Royal Flush Gang's crusade to reshape the Gotham City underworld continues with a vengeance. But Punchline is done dealing with henchmen and hired assassins...she's going right to the top, forcing a meeting with Black Mask and his criminal hive. Will Punchline have their ear, or will they rip out her heart?! And how will Bluebird recover from the vicious defeat Punchline dealt her as she tries to help her brother?
With only two chapters left, I am excited for a high-octane wrap up that will have meaningful repercussions in the broader universe. Read Full Review
Final ThoughtsPunchline: The Gotham Game #4 continues the story with various subplots, all of them interesting, and gives us another issue filled with great characters, intrigue, a couple great twists and Punchline continuing to be a fascinating and menacing counterpoint to Harley Quinn. Read Full Review
This isn't a bad comic, but it's one that mostly seems to exist to pick up on loose ends from Catwoman right now. Punchline almost feels ancillary to it. Read Full Review
While the aesthetic and narrative choices on display here work well enough, it feels like they barely scratch the surface for the kind of wacky, resonant story that could be told here. Read Full Review
Overall, I'm not mad at this issue. In two issues, the Howards have introduced far more interesting antagonists and angles to work with. While I can bet money that almost nobody is finding interest in Alexis Kaye's story right now, there are now some promising threads to follow. I think a big thematic conflict of the active and passive supervillain models makes for good conversation. However, I'm still not comfortable calling up those people on the fence about this book back into the yard just yet. I mean, there have been four issues and each one feels like another pilot episode. Read Full Review
The series feels like it should be coming to an end soon. Everything is caving in for Punchline, and its only a matter of time before things fall in one direction or another. Its too bad that its been such a mess from the beginning. If the Howards had focused on one or two of the main elements of the story, it might have been a much more satisfying run. As it is, the series never really manages to build up enough momentum in any of the supporting ends of the story. Read Full Review
I actually thought that this was the best issue of the miniseries yet. It wasn't fantastic or great or anything, but it was a pretty solid issue. I thought Howard wrote Nightwing well, and I think she typically does great with writing Black Mask as a total douche. Punchline herself still doesn't intrigue me that much, but this was an enjoyable issue overall.
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