A review by gothicteletubby
Batman: The Dark Knight Detective, Vol. 2 by Alan Grant, John Wagner, Denny O'Neil

3.0

This was such a let down, especially after how good volume 1 was. The first few issues were pretty good, I was kind of bummed that this went for so much resale, but it completely lost the plot after Corrosive Man. The way that adding the racist plot points and villains was so unnecessary, the Islamophobia was so blatant, at least - and the bar is in literal hell - Bruce was clearly affected with the idea that maybe the US wasn't the best country in the world and ruined many lives in the Middle East. And Bruce was the biggest goddamn hypocrite in the Aborigine story, criticizing that Aboriginal man for murdering people who were contributors to colonialism and killing Aboriginals when in the literal last issue Bruce "accidentally" killed a Middle Eastern man because he was a terrorist. 

Very frustrating to read good stories intermixed with such BS white, American centered rhetoric on POC and the atrocities of white imperialism caused.