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tawfek's review
5.0
With this we finish Batman : Year one
Its a happy ending really at least for this four issue story
from this point i think its safe to just read batman 408 and maybe legends of the dark knight as well, with some graphic novels about important past stories that i have missed
in this issue we get the conclusion of James Gordon affair, also the conclusion of skeever's case which implicated detective flass and commissioner loeb who seems to have gotten away for now with no repercussions.
one moment i loved in this issue though is batman as usual saving cat-woman and turning a blind eye and letting her go, there is incredible chemistry between them, wherever i have seen or read about them together so far, and i just love it <3
Its a happy ending really at least for this four issue story
from this point i think its safe to just read batman 408 and maybe legends of the dark knight as well, with some graphic novels about important past stories that i have missed
in this issue we get the conclusion of James Gordon affair, also the conclusion of skeever's case which implicated detective flass and commissioner loeb who seems to have gotten away for now with no repercussions.
one moment i loved in this issue though is batman as usual saving cat-woman and turning a blind eye and letting her go, there is incredible chemistry between them, wherever i have seen or read about them together so far, and i just love it <3
octavia_cade's review
dark
tense
fast-paced
2.0
You're Barbara Gordon. You are very, very pregnant, and you live in shit city, but at least you've got a decent husband, even if he does spend all his time at work and you're fighting about that. Still, he's honest, or so you think, until he starts being blackmailed because he's having an affair with a colleague and has to confess this to you, which is bad enough, but then you and your newborn are kidnapped. The baby is ripped from your arms and taken away, and you get him back eventually, but what is your reaction to this avalanche of horror that your husband is partially complicit in bringing down upon you?
Who the hell knows, you're not that important. You don't get to react to a single part of it. Not once.
If I'm supposed to feel sorry for Jim Gordon I don't. The potential for blackmail could have been seen a mile off. He's extremely stupid here, and reckless with other people's lives, and if there is anything designed to put me off a supposedly heroic protagonist it is stupidity and recklessness. What irritates me the most, though, is that the whole story is framed around him - and Batman of course, but then I'm not bitching about Bruce Wayne right now - as if he is the one that I'm supposed to empathise with. I doubt I'm Frank Miller's target audience here, but even so... I am not empathising.
Who the hell knows, you're not that important. You don't get to react to a single part of it. Not once.
If I'm supposed to feel sorry for Jim Gordon I don't. The potential for blackmail could have been seen a mile off. He's extremely stupid here, and reckless with other people's lives, and if there is anything designed to put me off a supposedly heroic protagonist it is stupidity and recklessness. What irritates me the most, though, is that the whole story is framed around him - and Batman of course, but then I'm not bitching about Bruce Wayne right now - as if he is the one that I'm supposed to empathise with. I doubt I'm Frank Miller's target audience here, but even so... I am not empathising.
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