The art would have benefited from it, and the story would’ve worked a lot better broken into three issues instead of six.

I saw an interview recently where Ennis talked about how this was one of the only superhero books that he genuinely enjoyed writing, and it shines through in the script.All a bunch of neat little extras and Sharp’s concepts show he was going to initially draw this in a different style, which just confirmed to me that the style he ended up going with in the final product was the perfect choice for it. In the end, this graphic novel is not the surprise any fan would’ve expected to get and, hopefully, isn’t the beginning of this creative team’s descent into mediocrity.

DISCLAIMER: This spiel above was written after having read the series again in the newly released hardcover. The gist is some weird, new creature is rampaging through Batman’s rogues gallery, and now Batman has to figure out what it is and what exactly it wants.Deranged Animation: If there's a comic book equivalent to this trope, Liam Sharp's bizarre artwork is definitely it. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It's almost okay but crosses the line a few too many times with a gleefully sadistic Batman, gratuitous fat shaming, and the mutilation and maiming of Batman's entire rogue's gallery in ways that either make this an Elseworlds tale or a canon story that will be quickly ignored or retconned. There are also some serious creative liberties taken for iconic characters, notably the Joker, who look nothing like anyone would’ve ever imagined for these characters.

Ennis manages to keep his heroic nature, while also keeping him a mean-spirited bully in a hilarious way. Which I shouldn't have been, because Black Label seem determined to put out even more Batman titles than core DC, so at this point they must be flinging absolute shedloads of cash at any big name who isn't entirely sworn of work for hire. It's like if Dave Mckean's Artwork in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth took it's pills. I'm waffling whether to give it 1 or 2 stars, but it left a bad taste in my mouth, despite some sparks of creativity.Inquiring the streets for clues to pin down the nature of this threat but also this unstable creature’s prime motive, Batman finds himself confronting Killer Croc only to discover a shocking truth that will require him to take drastic measures in solving the world’s strangest case. Giger's Xenomorph creation from the Alien film series) laying waste to both the good citizens and bad criminals of Gotham - attempts horror movie shock value but succeeds in only being distasteful and rather dull.