Suspected of murder, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] find themselves on the run from the super-hospital called Sanctuary -with each thinking the other one is the real killer! It's up to Batman to solve this heinous crime, but suspicion falls on him when Superman and Wonder Woman ponder just how much Sanctuary's A.I. is telling them. Meanwhile, [REDACTED] tries to make a shady deal to hide from the Trinity, while [REDACTED] searches out an old friend to help him out of this mess-and only gets deeper in trouble.
THE GOOD:
-Great art. Clay Mann continues to deliver in this issue.
-I love the therapy session scenes. In a typical comic, I would usually knock those for being too repetitive, but for now, the emotion and character depth these scenes display is too remarkable for me to care
-Very funny issue. I laughed a lot. I honestly think Tom King is a better comedy writer than anything else. Except for Nightwing, which he needs to stay at least ten feet away from ever writing again at all times.
-Really cool title page. A nice juxtaposition to the first page and just a cool looking splash that I would love to have hanging in my room.
-Harley Quinn's singing has grown on me. By dialing it WAY down and making it a little more funny, King has successfully captured a lot of what made his previous "repetitive" concepts good.
THE BAD:
-The unfortunate thing about this issue is that I just am not at all intrigued by the mystery. To correctly be like Identity Crisis, which I would like to point out is one of my favorite comics of all time (sorry haters) the series has to make the reader feel like they're at the edge of their seat constantly. They have to be guessing every possible suspect until the last issue. This series so far, has barely even touched the whole "whodunit" angle despite highly advertising it. Yes… I'm going to say it. The advertisements ended up having a bigger mystery theme than the book.
-Now, you may ask, what is it about, if not a mystery? Well, good question. So far, I'd say an adequate description of the series plot so far is "Booster Gold and Harley Quinn Doing Stuff." All joking aside, the plot isn't appealing to me either.
-Wasn't a fan of the fan service of putting Harley in her old costume for no reason. Not only has it been done before, there wasn't even an excuse to do so, like in Batman #53.
-I'm not a fan of how choppy this issue is. King's flat defunct Wes-Anderson writing doesn't go well with the abrupt transitions from scene to scene this issue has.
-Is this series ignoring Bendis's Superman? I don't blame them, considering that last issue. Still the Lois Lane continuity errors are too distracting for me to enjoy the completely unnecessary scene that took place with her.
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