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vicaaaaaaaaa's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
laureads4's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
4.0
this was a fun short story
emfed's review
dick.. charming…… rlly liked the colors in this one. but also that panel of b watching him like ‘he’ll be a good soldier’. ONCE AGAIN. this guy has issues
kiralovesreading's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
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? No
4.0
luana420's review
4.0
Lovely, simple story of Dick Grayson's final exam to become Robin which becomes a little more than just a game of elaborate hide and seek with Batman. I would actually have been fine if the game was all that happened and the mob didn't get involved! Art by Lee Weeks is gorgeously Golden Age reminiscent.
kaipitain's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Well The Gauntlet is a pretty neat little thing. It does a bunch of things really well, and doesn't risk enough to do anything wrong really. It takes the grounded setting and art style of Batman: Year One and manages to introduce a colorful element like Robin into it in a pretty convincing way. Although I do have to say - with the Long Halloween and Dark Victory filling in how Batman fought organized crime, how the crazy people took over, and how Robin joined the gang - it does feel odd to go back to the grounded mafia stuff right after the hightened and stylized storylines that Loeb and Sale filled in. But I can't really fault this book for not entirely fitting in with what another author wrote later, right?
carochacord's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
libra17's review against another edition
4.0
The Gauntlet is the fun little adventure of Robin's 'final exam' before the Bat would allow him to be Gotham's Boy Wonder. B's final exam is basically a game of hide and seek, meant to test how well Robin would be able to navigate the city and evade pursuers (presumably as a last resort if anything were to happen to Batman). However, one of the first things Robin does is break up a fight between apparent mobsters having a disagreement, not realizing that one of those apparent mobsters was actually a deep cover cop and the disagreement was over the recorded evidence that the cop had been gathering. Robin leaves the scene with the evidence, not realizing what it is, and this kicks off the entire gang searching the city high and low for him. It turns out to be a different sort of test than what Batman had originally imagined, but one that Robin passes with flying colors nonetheless.
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