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squidbag's review
3.0
Very much grounded in the politics and storytelling of the late 90s, but still a good little tale. Denny O'Neil was crazy reliable for this kind of cross-over, cross-title stuff, but there are some problems with this one. The art is VERY much indicative of this period in comics, but that's true of a lot of art; the casual racism of Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle, the weird conventions of Renaissance art, and so on. The characterizations of some of the Asians are a little racist and the secondary villains are just weird. Finally, touting this as a "Batman" collection is simply misleading; Green Arrow is the only through-line character in the whole story, and he interacts with Green Lantern for the first three parts, then Bats for the last five or six. Odd, but a fun story, and worth it when collected all together like this.
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