And Back to Sub-Par Work
A bit of a letdown after the decent first volume - seems almost like the basic idea was fully played out in the first series and now they were getting a bit desperate. Zombies? That's the best we could come up, zombies? Did I miss the "teenage vampires in love" crossover? As potentially great as the final moment of this collection could be, it comes out of nowhere and seems forced and majickally convenient. Also, the story just stops. Batman and Robin go home and we are left wondering, "wait, what about all that stuff you said you had to go do? Is this halftime?" The first story in the collection has some very fine moments, especially with all the Robins together, but the basic premise for it is irritatingly tiresome: another "Batman is the real menace and we are all victims of him!" story, with a main nemesis whose origin is unclear, motivation is murky, and grief with Batman is unexplained. Feel free to tell me how he was back in issue #3XX of Detective Comics waaay back when - I picked up "The New 52" because I was promised I wouldn't need to know all that stuff. Stop trying to get us to feel sorry for the villains, Bat-writers. Stop giving us "will Batman lose his cool and finally kill?" stories. Do better at your overly-paid positions. And stop giving us cover art that has nothing to do with the content of the stories. This series promised more than it delivered here.
