The dude is doing his job, and there is a definite noir tilt to the thing. This is the kind of Batman story I really enjoy.

The specter of Dent, the White Knight of Gotham, hangs over the entire book, and his downfall is the driver for a lot of the plot.īrendan: When we talk about Batman, it seems like it comes up every time, that Batman is supposed to be the world’s greatest DETECTIVE, and it drives me up the wall when writers forget that, and then get the readers to play along.

I also really enjoyed that the story took its time bringing in Harvey Dent. The characters are extremely well fleshed out (Gordon is as big a presence as Batman himself). The building war between the Arkhamites and the mob is a truly interesting story that drives the plot forward but the Hangman mystery is the thing that kept me invested. That said, I think this is a great, tense murder mystery. So it’s absolutely worth noting that this is a situation where we are separating art and artist. Among other things, he’s been accused of racism towards Asian cultures and people. Loeb is an extremely complicated figure in comics. Tony: I think I’ve read Long Halloween, but it’s been at least 15 years if I did, so yeah, brain fog. It’s been a really long time since I read Long Halloween, so I blame middle-aged brain fog. A few little nuances in the callbacks to Long Halloween were lost on me, but overall, this was pretty solid on its own.īrendan: I saw a couple that I recognized, and a couple that I assumed I had just forgotten. I really didn’t have any problem with this book. I’ve picked up more than my fair share of comics late in the game and had to catch up as I read. But Long Halloween wasn’t on Unlimited so I thought it might be fun to do this old school. Tony: So it’s worth noting- a lot of our reads come from Comixology Unlimited, and we usually only cover sequels and second volumes after we’ve done the first. Not enough pages left to get into the next piece of the puzzle, so some of the stuff got drawn out a little longer in the middle to allow for those clean little cowboy cliffhangers between issues. There are a couple points where it drags a little, and I think it just has to do with where the chapter stops are. What did you think?īrendan Allen: It is a long one, for sure. It’s one of those that you can feel it in the length but not as a negative. Tony Thornley: So I think this is our longest book to date, clocking in one issue longer than House of X/Powers of X.

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