Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 6

Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 6 | Brandon Easton, Tini Howard, Greg Hahn, Blake M. Howard

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Heck of a mix in this one.

Leather Bound is dark, grotesque, heavy on the violence to animals and involves one person with icky rash and one guy with multiple limbs getting eaten. There's a message and a hint of psychological musing in there, but I'd be less nauseous if I skipped it.
1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Castle Arkham: On Haunted Wings is still a bit gooey, but well worth the read, a gloriously gothic historical horror tale focusing on a city called Arkham rather than Gotham. I would be interested to see other installments from this alternate world.

The Wheelman of Gotham: It's the simple things, sometimes it's just enjoyable to see Batman wreck two Batmobiles in pursuit of a young woman of colour who bested him more than once, and ends 2d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? with a hint at a future where we might see more from her.

Nightwing Presenting: The Director:
I mean it's a Nightwing story, kind of automatically a favourite. Jamal Campbell has earned my interest as a writer and artist after this one. Oh, and evidently there's a sharply dressed villain called The Flamingo that eats faces. Still adjusting to this fact. 2d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Get a bunch of shorter stories after these four, of those, two stood out.
The first, Belle & Beau: sort of a Bonnie & Clyde/Robin Hood mashup with millenial/Gen Z angst, young people not seeing much future in the imbalance of wealth and opportunity of late stage capitalism exacerbated by Gotham's villain scene, deciding on the direct approach for personal wealth redistribution to themselves, and I always love when you can see the Bat pause 2d

Robotswithpersonality 5/? to think on the shades of gray. [Utility, the last story in this collection has a similar flavour, Batman being reminded of what the citizens are dealing with while he tries to fight all the dark forces, and re-evaluating how he can help, action vs inaction]. 2d

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 Second short to stand out is Survivor's Guilt: a look into the murky past of Montoya, all the too real ways that policing is a broken system, that needs no special 'Gotham is corrupt' edge to dramatize the true to life details. I'm really glad the story went there, and again, really glad we see a woman of colour as the main character in a story, and taking a leadership role.

⚠️animal death, suicide, dismemberment 2d

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