If you love Batman, you'll love this comic. The Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant #1shows us why Batman has to be the best… to take on the worst. Read Full Review

Overall, it's a solid anthology with no real bad stories, but quite a few strange ones. Well worth picking up for Gotham villain fans. Read Full Review

While some stories veer dangerously close to being too wordy or too self-involved, that kind of energy does suit many of the villains within these pages"and overall, I can't help but love the Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant for existing. Read Full Review

Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant #1 is a very mixed bag with half of the bag being made up of tie-ins to other titles or upcoming events/books. There are a few gems in here, but it's far from a must-read. Read Full Review

Had this been six or seven bucks I might almost give it a passing recommendation, but at ten dollars? I'm knocking a point off the overall score, because that's way too much for one genuinely good story and then a lot of filler, even if some of the filler is pretty decent on its own. As it is, though, this is an anthology that falls victim to the worst aspect of too many books these days: it's non-stop setup. Read Full Review

Yet another anthology from DC. This one wasn't that bad though. I think the worst story is actually the much hyped one. Bird Cat Love by Danny DeVito is ridiculous and weird, and I wish I was saying those things in a positive way. It just didn't work, in my opinion. The next story was probably only slightly better, The Fearless Man. It tried to do a lot and didn't really land. Ophiocordyceps Lamia is probably my favorite of the bunch. I really like how G. Willow Wilson writes Ivy and I hope she continues to write the character going forward. Demon's Game was super boring. I don't think Ra's Al Ghul is a compelling character. I think he has a potential that, despite so many stories about him, hasn't yet been exploited. The Second Eye is more of the same. The Al Ghuls are just super uninteresting to me. For The Sky Is Red is actually a really fun story and I think Stephanie Phillips did a great job. The Perfect Fit was mediocre, unfortunately. I feel like the set up wasn't worth the payoff. The body horror elements in the beginning were neat though. The Happiest Man in Gotham was cute and wholesome, and one of the better stories featured here. more

I seldom buy anthology comics anymore, but this wasn't a total disappointment as they tend to be. Danny DeVito wrote an interesting enough fantasy story. Though it didn't really make too much sense. How could Catwoman and Penguin ever become in item? The thought alone makes one dizzy.
The Scarecrow story was average, but gives him a decent story after "Fear State" had us all begging for less.
The Mad Hatter story featured my least favorite Batman character ever, Damian, so he pretty much killed it.
The Poison Ivy one was as dull as any Ivy story nowadays can be. Her new lesbian persona kind of makes her more interesting older capers where she seduced men seem a bit obsolete now. But in plain truth, the story was just plain BOR-RING. It was undoubtably the worst and most pointless story in the whole book.
The Red Hood is hard to figure out thanks to Snyder's alteration of the character. I remember when it was a disguise by the Joker before he even became the clown prince of crime. But now there were a ton of them and he was just one of many. It kind of kills the character's intrigue, but I must admit the story was still a decent one.
Killer Moth's story was one of a guy who knows he's a lesser foe, but doesn't care. Personally I prefer when he tried to improve his image with more daring heists, but still was doomed to failure. Because let's face it, this guy has managed to continue menacing Batman for over 60 years. He deserves a little respect for that at least.
The Ra's Al Ghul story was kind of slow, but the Talia one made up for that. I don't like Talia anymore as I used to, but hers was one of the book's better stories as well.
Anthology comics are death traps for our wallets most of the time, but I guess this one was worth getting, especially when compared to most others I've read the last couple of years. more

Ra's Al Ghul story, Talia story, and Scarecrow were the highlights.

Some of it was good and some of it was fine. Poison Ivy, ra's and Talia were probably my favourites.

Yeah, this was a weird one. 3 for the Penguin story, biggest wtf from this book, 5 for the Scarecrow one. I have to take the time though to talk about G Willow Wilson's story which is truly horrendous. I liked that she at least admitted, unintentionally though, that Ivy is an extremist and a terrorist, that's something a lot of people have forgotten these days, they just consider her heroic because she kills people who are polluting. Also, I laughed out loud at the cringy dialogue between Ivy and Janet. "You look gorgeous in a non-harassment kind of way"??? Who the hell talks like that? I'm pretty sure no real person has ever uttered those words. Yeah, it's a 1 for this story, is just wrong on so many levels. 7 for the Red Hood story, 6.5 for the Mad Hatter one, 7.5 for the Killer Moth one, 8 for the Ra's one and 6 for Talia's story. All in all, pretty disappointing one-shot, I expected a lot better, though it's par for the course for DC in the last years, they don't put good talent on these books. more

surprisingly boring

This is very, very bad. The biggest waste of money I've spent in a long time. I basically just bought myself an excessive period of boredom. Guess I've got to be more frugal when it comes to comic books in the future. Oh well. The least I can do is complain about it online in a vain attempt to persuade people not to buy it. Ah, who am I kidding? Nobody's gonna see this.

"Bird Cat Love" is just weird. I didn't expect it to be well-written, but even Dan Mora's art looked blander than usual.

"The Fearless Man" mostly confused me. The art's pretty nice to look at, but I had no engagement in the story whatsoever.

"Ophiocordyceps Lamia" was fine. The art was very pretty and I mostly liked how Ivy was written.

"For the Sky is Red" was pretty solid. It definitely had a powerful ending.

"The Perfect Fit" was just way too much exposition. The most boring story in a very boring collection of stories.

"The Happiest Man in Gotham" was my favorite. It took advantage of its short page count and was a nice, surprisingly wholesome story.

"Demon's Game" just felt like a very cliched and uninteresting R'as al Ghul story.

"The Second Eye" had its moments, but ultimately ended up pretty bad. more