This issue opens in the middle of a battle between Batwing and Gentleman Ghost. While I am glad to finally see Gentleman Ghost in the new 52, it drops us in the middle of this fight without rhyme or reason as to why the fight is happening. And it never returns to explain that. Hopefully we’ll come back here.
The art is really strong and consistent in this issue. Trevor McCarthy (art) and Guy Major (color) do a nice job of making this issue fit into the overall feel of the series. It doesn’t feel like an outlier at all. The one thing that I found a little problematic was the use, and I consider it overuse, of the kind of radial style panel organization. Like this:
I like the use of a less often used panel arrangement here, but I think that having pages like this upwards of 6 or 7 times in one 23 page issue is overkill. I would have liked to see this used more sparingly I think. But that could be personal preference for sure.
Finally, I think the last three issues (4 , 5, and 6) are all much more jumpy and less cohesive than the first three, which focused mainly on the Gordon storyline. It seems that the book is trying to balance a few too many storylines in just the six issues that we’ve gotten so far. I also think there might be too many characters included thus far, but I know some people would highly disagree with me on that.
Overall I give this book a 2.5/5 and I think this is the weakest of all of the Batman Eternal books released thus far.
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