I considered issue 1 a nothing issue, since nothing of significance happened to make you excited for this new comic series, but not an completely incompetent comic. However, I don't think i can say the same about today's issue. This is straight up a bad comic.

For starters, continuity errors. The comic opens with Killer Moth getting beat up but if you played, and payed attention to, Arkham Knight you know this is impossible since the character is dead on the Arkham verse. I know, in the game they make this mistake to, and that just goes to show how much the people behind this project care. On top of that, the comic is super slow, yoy think after the end of issue 1 setting up a prison scape this one would be fast paced with decent action but no, it's super slow.

After that we get some commentary about prison guard brutality and I don't know how to feel about that. If the guards were shown mistreating regular inmates, i could get behind the characters but we're talking about Batman's villains. Harley in this universe for instance has killed children after months of torture. I can't feel bad about these characters, they are the worst of the worst after all. What I'm saying is that the topic is interesting but poorly implemented and half way through it gets thrown out of the window anyway.

We also get to see why Deadshot hates Deathstroke so much and it's just the most bland and generic reason you can think of. Deathstroke also feels bland, having pretty much zero personality here, he doesn't feel like Arkham Deathstroke at all. And he has worked in teams before with other villains so his talk about not working with other assassins feels a little bit out of place.

The artwork is lefts to be desired too, with characters looking off model and hard to recognize in certain pages.

So, we have bad continuity, a whatever story, bland characters and the art is far from the best. Besides, the hype for the SS game is dead at this point. I see no reason to follow this series anymore. more

This a nothing issue. For a first issue nothing here happens to get you excited to read the next one. Yeah, arkham cells are open, so what? this is just another day there, we're talking about Arkham after all. Feels weird how Batman is portrayed here... like, now that his identity is public there is no way he would be able to operate like that, he would be enemy of the police again, Arkham Knight's ending was about that, how now he can't keep being Batman like he was before. About the characters, not much to talk about it so far. But i must say, not a fan of what they did to Deadshot. This "oh, the other one was a imposter" just makes zero sense and makes the universe more convoluted. Think about it, Batman fought the imposter about 3 times at least, and never talked about how that guy was a fake Deadshot, always treated him like the real one. Is he stupid? The world's greatest detective did not know this? Also, did he never fought the real Deadshot then? They should have thought about this and just used the old Deadshot. Yeah, this is not on the comic, it's a game problem, sorry. Besides that, if you're going to do this, at least make the new deadshot a cool character. Both in game and here he's whiny and annoying. Just like the game, this is just a cash grab for DC. The art is cool tho. more

The conclusion to what has to be the best comic from 2022 with Deathstroke. I must admit that this issue was the weakest of all but not bad by any means. Another fun read as you can expect from this series, i guess my problem is the somewhat predictable ending. Anyway, if you fallowed the series so far you're going to read this regardless.

A whatever ending. I guess my problem with this series is how much it plays safe and this issue was that. The most safe ending possible. It uses the characters in whatever way fits the story instead of using the characters to move it. And i just hate how much this tries to lie to us. This series asks us to look at the past, but not the actual past we read but a different version that the writer want us to. And yeah, at the end of the day this was just some eye candy with some cheap fan service. Not even 10% of what the original crisis was. It goes in the complete opposite direction. Just another robotic cashgrab event.
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