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mjthomas43's review
4.0
Huntress fights against Man-Bat and comes close to killing him. A priest seems to come close to losing his faith. Damien as Robin comes close to understanding his father's biggest strength, something he has thought of as a weakness for too long.
Good story, especially with Dick as Batman. Very busy but it all fits together.
Good story, especially with Dick as Batman. Very busy but it all fits together.
howattp's review
3.0
I liked the Zsasz storyline the best, and it should really have been the primary story, rather than having the repeated departure. It's a nice one that features Damian.
captwinghead's review
4.0
What I actually like about this series is that, like Gotham Central, I feel Gotham when I'm reading it. It has this tone that really makes you feel like you're in the muck of it with the characters. It's one of those books that breathes life into the city.
As cases go, this one is pretty damn depressing: Zsasz is kidnapping orphans and forcing them to fight each other to the death with knives. Batman and Robin come across the bodies after Humpty took them back to a house and tried to "put them back together" (cringe). Robin is physically ill at the sight of all these dead children and I've never seen Damian lose it at a dead body. It's here that I think about what comes later with Jon running away in tears after he saw what looked like a dead family of 4. This is what I think about when I think about because it shows how far Damian has come. And... that's not really a good thing. This kid has seen way too much at his young age.
So, part of this is that case but it takes a backseat for an issue or 2 while Dick hunts down a man that's killing a bunch of skels around town after they get involved with a stripper (sex worker? I wasn't entirely sure what exactly her job was). I enjoyed that story less because it just seemed like an excuse to draw a bunch of scantily clad women and the crux of it was men acting like this woman was property. Not something I enjoyed reading about.
The end of this is Damian Wayne getting to the bottom of Zsasz's cage fighting operation. Zsasz is not a character I've really come into contact with before. I wiki'ed him and I had seen him once on the Gotham TV show but he really didn't make much of an impression. Here, he did because he was pretty formidable as an opponent. To be honest, in everything I've read with Damian (and that's quite a lot) this is the most violent and bloody fight I've seen him in.
He meets Colin Wilkes in this story, Abuse, and they form a bond. I liked watching them work together.
So, it's a recommend if you can get past the beginning because it was a little hard to read.
As cases go, this one is pretty damn depressing: Zsasz is kidnapping orphans and forcing them to fight each other to the death with knives. Batman and Robin come across the bodies after Humpty took them back to a house and tried to "put them back together" (cringe). Robin is physically ill at the sight of all these dead children and I've never seen Damian lose it at a dead body. It's here that I think about what comes later with Jon running away in tears after he saw what looked like a dead family of 4. This is what I think about when I think about because it shows how far Damian has come. And... that's not really a good thing. This kid has seen way too much at his young age.
So, part of this is that case but it takes a backseat for an issue or 2 while Dick hunts down a man that's killing a bunch of skels around town after they get involved with a stripper (sex worker? I wasn't entirely sure what exactly her job was). I enjoyed that story less because it just seemed like an excuse to draw a bunch of scantily clad women and the crux of it was men acting like this woman was property. Not something I enjoyed reading about.
The end of this is Damian Wayne getting to the bottom of Zsasz's cage fighting operation. Zsasz is not a character I've really come into contact with before. I wiki'ed him and I had seen him once on the Gotham TV show but he really didn't make much of an impression. Here, he did because he was pretty formidable as an opponent. To be honest, in everything I've read with Damian (and that's quite a lot) this is the most violent and bloody fight I've seen him in.
He meets Colin Wilkes in this story, Abuse, and they form a bond. I liked watching them work together.
So, it's a recommend if you can get past the beginning because it was a little hard to read.
skolastic's review
4.0
Short summary: Leviathan is a perfectly good continuation of Dini and Nguyen's work on the first Streets of Gotham collection.
The title story starts off the collection nicely - The Huntress tracks Man-Bat across the city, and both of them end up in over their heads when they crash into an old church. Dini does a good job of blending Huntress's wit with the spooky situation. My one little grumble here is that it seems like this would be a natural place to address the cross iconography Huntress uses, but it doesn't come up once.
"In The Bleak Midwinter" is a sad, Christmas one-shot featuring Humpty Dumpty and continuing the Zsasz story from the first collection. Really well done.
When I first read through the collection, I wasn't really a fan of "Hardcore Nights", but I enjoyed it a little bit more on the second pass. It's a pretty good Batman mystery story, but ultimately forgettable. (This is where I drop a star.)
The collection gets rounded out with "The Heroes" and "Final Cut", which wrap up the Zsasz storyline and reveal the identity of Abuse. This is another bit that I originally wasn't a huge fan of, but came to enjoy more.I still have mixed feelings about the reveal of Abuse as a little kid -- while he works as a nice complement to Damian, I feel like there could have been more done with him than we see in this arc.
All in all, Streets of Gotham continues to entertain (and Nguyen's art continues to wow)
The title story starts off the collection nicely - The Huntress tracks Man-Bat across the city, and both of them end up in over their heads when they crash into an old church. Dini does a good job of blending Huntress's wit with the spooky situation. My one little grumble here is that it seems like this would be a natural place to address the cross iconography Huntress uses, but it doesn't come up once.
"In The Bleak Midwinter" is a sad, Christmas one-shot featuring Humpty Dumpty and continuing the Zsasz story from the first collection. Really well done.
When I first read through the collection, I wasn't really a fan of "Hardcore Nights", but I enjoyed it a little bit more on the second pass. It's a pretty good Batman mystery story, but ultimately forgettable. (This is where I drop a star.)
The collection gets rounded out with "The Heroes" and "Final Cut", which wrap up the Zsasz storyline and reveal the identity of Abuse. This is another bit that I originally wasn't a huge fan of, but came to enjoy more.
All in all, Streets of Gotham continues to entertain (and Nguyen's art continues to wow)
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