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Batman #100 by James Tynion IV

anthroxagorus's review

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5.0

Hey finally read it and some good highlights in here! Oracle came back! Harley and Bats had more banter! Mr. J with red nailpolish! And Punchline in the cutest sweater! Soo where can we go from here?

etienne02's review

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4.0

Satisfying #100. Could have been better, could have been a lot worse too. Good action and more importantly a good way to close this part of the story, wrap it up and move on! Not relate to this one, but I'm very excited about the new Rorschach series coming out in October which I see advertised at the end of this one, that's why I'm posting it here!

samhain's review

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medium-paced

2.5

Again with the reaping off of other stories 😬 The bombs, the Joker's getting laughed at just before he dies, Alfred's death being weaponized... I mean, it's well-done, but it's still way too close to plagiarism for comfort. Not to mention, there's no real pay off. Bruce knew the Joker would deactivate the bomb, he's made zero choice. The only difference might be how Joker himself sees this. He might start thinking his one true love/nemesis chose Harley over him, and he might resent Harley for this. But, honestly, even if this happens, it doesn't change much from where they all were before this arc.

Even Clownhunter is just Bruce gone wrong. Which we've done already, storywise. I thought he was a promising character, but they handled this quite poorly.

As for Punchline, she wasn't great from the start and it all went downhill ever since.

Some issues in this arc proved that Tynion could come up with cool ideas of his own. Apparently, he doesn't know what to do with them afterwards, but there's some promise there. And he writes a great Harley. I still have some hope for the future storylines.

This one, though? Much ado about nothing. 
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