A review by stories_of_the_soul27
Under the Red Hood by Judd Winick

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Judd Winick has done a phenomenal job of bringing back such a hated character back to life in such a haunting, tragic but beautiful way! There is so much anguish, trauma and anger seeping through the story and the characters and Winick wrapped them all up beautifully. Every drop of emotion was well measured and placed at the right places. It hurts you tremendously when Jason asks why the Batman has let Joker lived when he was the one who took Jason from him. The back and forth of the dialogues hits you more than the punches exchanged between Batman and Red Hood. 
The compilation was really good. It had chapters of satisfying action and seeing Black Mask losing his empire bit by bit but unable to do anything. And then it had the whole Batman and Hood exchange. 

I need time to recover from this. 

P.S. I need to specially mention the comment of Alfred about how the one thing the villains fear most about Batman is his “resolve”. It is so true. We love Batman so much because he always gets up and just gets going. Always! He is not sentimental in the way a father or lover is but he loves Gotham and the few people he holds dear to him. For Gotham and them he keeps going.