Another amazing issue. I love the small scale problem focusing on just smallville. Seeing a sliver of smallville life. Art as always is amazing, can't wait for the next issue.

This was an excellent conclusion to the series. The art was some of the best in all of the issues. There was one beautiful homage to a classic Neal Adams Batman that brought a smile to my face. It was the famous splash page from Batman #251. Sherman homages it in the sequence where it’s being said- “Fire does set the lizard brain alight”. Look at that Batman figure in comparison to the figure Neal used on the cover of Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams vol 1 and you’ll see what I mean.

Anyway….. beautiful issue!! Cannot wait to double dip into the collected edition! Hoping for a nice hardcover! Deluxe edition would be lovely!

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It makes me a little sad that this series has been pretty low on the radar. It’s honestly the best Batman story we’ve gotten in recent years. I’m hoping it takes off once the collected edition gets released.

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Overall, this was a decent conclusion of the series. Some of the plot points throughout felt like a needless retread of Robin year one. But overall, I’m looking forward to getting this in collected hardcover.

The writing for this series has been decent. But it was the artwork that really made the series shine. This and Batman Dark Patterns have been the best series to come out from DC comics in a long time. But I strongly feel that dark patterns is definitely the better of the two. The series was good. But the art is really what carried it.



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A fantastic end to this awesome run. I recommend it to any Batman fan out there. Praying for a year 2 continuation.

The story was heartwarming and cute. Marvel heroes making sure Peter Parker does not feel lonely during Christmas. But I thought it was just ok. I guess I recommend it to anyone who wants a nice holiday story.

Great Christmas collection of small DC stories. Each stories were good, and it gave that warmth feeling expected from a Xmas Edition comic. I recommend this to anyone for the Christmas season.

OOff this was so underwhelming. The art was great, but the story about Dagon was such a disappointment. He was being introduce as the next big bad villain, a god. But to be defeated that easily was very disappointing.

A perfect end to this story arc. I really like the new Captain America, I hope we get more stories from him.

A nation is truly doomed. Steve Rogers will start to question the country he serves.

Really love this series.

this is a really interesting title, which sadly would probably be remembered as a small backdrop. around so much mediocrity.

By this point Rucka is probably seen as an old gard guy. Like he has been doing stuff since the 90s like Whiteout(a very good comics that people should check out) and he got pretty big 00s in dc. So he brings in a way this post crisis energy that i find missing in the way he treats those characters here. Personally i find DC extremely fractured right now and it has been this way for a long time. Not a lot of those iconic old character get the limelight or if they do, they hardly feel like characters, they are very rarely tangable and mostly just there for the one big story and bam they are gone. Continuity is out of the window. I know all this has not much to do with this comics, but it also has a tons to do because it makes those characters are usually just devices breathe and it makes it so efortlessly that it makes it seem like it has always been this way.

the characters feel deep, even if the deep is not explored at the start. Rucka always had such a good way with dealing with things under the surface, with those stuff that are not said. it feels that there is so much more to them and we just see them in this light because the situation is like that, while those characters still snow their nuance and have emotional layers. It's really impressive.

The story is also really feel strictured. It's tight, every issue very clearly defined, inspired maybe even too much by all the steps a heist fictions takes. It's nice because it does not feel slow, it feels purposful, we think with the characters we act with them and follow the processes. It's testament to how well rucka has though out the proccess. we know each step we take and we have to think through them. Again it humanizes the characters and shows us different sides of them in a very nonchalant way, but it shows us all the building blocks even to how for example in this issue the characters try to establish a relationship.

Another standout is the art. I'm just stunned at how art this beatiful goes unnapreciated too. Scott's art is obvious with tons attention to detail, with a lot warmt in it, compassion, but also fluidity in the expressions and the body motions. it feels like just by looking at it you could get the hang of what the characters are feeling. Yeah they are villains, but they are way more relatable, grounded and understandable than the heroes here. Way less flashy and even more mature and the arts helps a lot with this.

Overall it's a masterful comics, a very clear, without any misteps heist comics, very wonderful time that may even grow to something more but even know it's one of the big hits for me from dc and compared to birds of prey it blows them out of the water for me.once it ends i would write another review on it. more

its a shame not many people will know about this series. It's really fun and entertaining so far.

The best issue of this special event. The art was also very good.