Ricky Riccardus

incredible story. light spoilers. james gordon jr. is a chilling antagonist. a psychopath one step ahead of everyone else. i was absolutely captivated by the character, so much so that perhaps it caused the smaller sub-plots to feel less interesting as i was itching to see what came next from james. nevertheless, this was excellently written and i loved the art. i did wish for a little more closure at the end of the story. but nothing could bring this lower than 4.5 stars for me.

It's an interesting read. The art is not my favorite but it was solid enough to get me through.

One of my larger complaints is the dialog felt very unnatural to me. Most of it seemingly being nonsense if coming from “supernatural” or for lack of a better term posessed characters while everyone else is overly vulgar for the sake of being vulgar. The first two issues felt especially heavy handed with a lot of forced exposition.

There is another volume and I am compelled to pick it up because I am left somewhat unconvinced so far as to where I fully stand on the story. There wasn't much sense of completion or resolution to any aspects of the story.

I hope volume two can bring something along to capitalize on what I believe is a very promising premise. Bunny Mask is an interesting character and I want to know more about everything this story could potentially offer . .

I'm sitting at a 2.5/5 right now. Though I hope after I read the second volume it provides the overall story more value.

DNF. The first issue was stupid and I got halfway through the second before I just started flipping. I could just tell it wasn't worth the time.

Excellent followup/expansion to The Last Ronin, and while not earning a fifth star, I really loved this. I just found the original to contain more powerful moments and a more profound final act.

This might be better than the original for me. A solid four stars where the other one felt more like a 3.5-3.75. Incredibly fucked up, of course, as all of this series is, but a much more riveting read for me than the first series with far fewer lulls between big moments.