At last, Batman and the Red Hood face off, and in case you didn’t know (which means you don’t read the book or you are a moron) the Red Hood is Jason Todd, the Robin that died. Or at least, we thought he did. Whatever happened I can’t tell you. It’s not that I won’t, it is because I don’t know. Yes, that’s right, this Issue doesn’t say. But it does contain an awesome fight between Batman and his former pupil. (But why is Jason wearing his robin mask beneath the Red Hood?)

I know that rebirths are not what some, including myself, consider “classy writing” or even “good writing” but people just don’t like to say goodbye to their characters forever. And this is beginning to be a problem. Comic readers now know that anything that happens, no matter how doubtless the outcome, can be reversed. And so now it is very hard to evoke emotions from readers when they think that anything bad that happens will eventually be fixed. This is just a really wimpy and limp wristed way of writing and actually handicaps the writers. Sure it keeps some readers happy, but it keeps all readers bored.

-Fumanchu