adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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I read this yesterday and have forgotten almost everything that happened. However, I do remember enjoying it.
adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Somehow better than the first? I was left absolutely REELING and very grateful I bought the Harley Quinn follow-up. These Black Label books are wild.
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Pretty fun and interesting when its not grossly overt copaganda. Bruce's arc is kinda all over the place but somewhat compelling; its nice to see his foundations challenged by certain revelations. But, then they backpedal on those revelations for another twist and its so. Ugh. Telltale & Matt Reeves did the Wayne's Dark Secrets way better because they actually committed to them: Telltale went all in with it and Reeves made it more morally gray. Here its just, they did a bad no they didnt it was actually someone else. Azrael is kinda epic tho ngl he has a flaming sword with a full on crucifix on the hilt.
dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is a great second part to an already strong story. The art is immaculate. The pacing is decent and the story feels so full of depth without becoming overbearing.
After the sort of “out of the box” nature of the social commentary in the first part, I was a bit skeptical about how Batman could even continue. But Sean Murphy is leagues ahead of me and seemingly everyone else. With a purposeful while still complex plot, he dives head first into that exact question. Can Batman continue and if yes, how?
This book has a ton of fun callbacks to other stories which sharp eyed fans of the caped Crusader can certainly comb for like I definitely did. And the action feels gritty without crossing into full grim dark territory. It also resurrects a favorite side character of mine in Azrael and rewrites his backstory to fit this “murphyverse”
I loved this as a continuation of a new favorite storyline and it seems to be not even done yet which may be the most exciting part.
adventurous emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
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