I’m actually really glad that we’re seeing more of the crime boss battles in this book. Eternal #4, 5, and 6 were all really jumpy, but this seems to be continuing on that crime war story a little more. I do wish we were getting something about Gordon here, but I also understand some of the reasons why it is being withheld at the moment. There are a lot of threads to this story in the seven issues, and I’m not sure that they’re being held together very well. We have the crime war, the story with Gordon, Vicki Vale’s reporting, and the sick children Red Robin is trying to take care of. These are all starting to strain on the title as a whole I think. Thus, it makes each issue seem more taxing when we’re not hearing about each of those issues. At the same moment, it seems that if you brought up all of those stories in one issue it would be too much. I guess, all in all, this issue was decent as a stand alone, but given the series as a whole, it is lacking and was doomed to have flaws because of the multiple stories set up thus far. I feel like all of these stories have potential, but the overlap is too much for the audience.
I give this book a 3/5, keeping in mind that most of my problems stem from the entire series.
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