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A review by captwinghead
Batman: Streets of Gotham - Leviathan by Dustin Nguyen, Paul Dini, Derek Fridolfs, Christopher Yost, Mike Benson
4.0
What I actually like about this series is that, like Gotham Central, I feel Gotham when I'm reading it. It has this tone that really makes you feel like you're in the muck of it with the characters. It's one of those books that breathes life into the city.
As cases go, this one is pretty damn depressing: Zsasz is kidnapping orphans and forcing them to fight each other to the death with knives. Batman and Robin come across the bodies after Humpty took them back to a house and tried to "put them back together" (cringe). Robin is physically ill at the sight of all these dead children and I've never seen Damian lose it at a dead body. It's here that I think about what comes later with Jon running away in tears after he saw what looked like a dead family of 4. This is what I think about when I think about because it shows how far Damian has come. And... that's not really a good thing. This kid has seen way too much at his young age.
So, part of this is that case but it takes a backseat for an issue or 2 while Dick hunts down a man that's killing a bunch of skels around town after they get involved with a stripper (sex worker? I wasn't entirely sure what exactly her job was). I enjoyed that story less because it just seemed like an excuse to draw a bunch of scantily clad women and the crux of it was men acting like this woman was property. Not something I enjoyed reading about.
The end of this is Damian Wayne getting to the bottom of Zsasz's cage fighting operation. Zsasz is not a character I've really come into contact with before. I wiki'ed him and I had seen him once on the Gotham TV show but he really didn't make much of an impression. Here, he did because he was pretty formidable as an opponent. To be honest, in everything I've read with Damian (and that's quite a lot) this is the most violent and bloody fight I've seen him in.
He meets Colin Wilkes in this story, Abuse, and they form a bond. I liked watching them work together.
So, it's a recommend if you can get past the beginning because it was a little hard to read.
As cases go, this one is pretty damn depressing: Zsasz is kidnapping orphans and forcing them to fight each other to the death with knives. Batman and Robin come across the bodies after Humpty took them back to a house and tried to "put them back together" (cringe). Robin is physically ill at the sight of all these dead children and I've never seen Damian lose it at a dead body. It's here that I think about what comes later with Jon running away in tears after he saw what looked like a dead family of 4. This is what I think about when I think about because it shows how far Damian has come. And... that's not really a good thing. This kid has seen way too much at his young age.
So, part of this is that case but it takes a backseat for an issue or 2 while Dick hunts down a man that's killing a bunch of skels around town after they get involved with a stripper (sex worker? I wasn't entirely sure what exactly her job was). I enjoyed that story less because it just seemed like an excuse to draw a bunch of scantily clad women and the crux of it was men acting like this woman was property. Not something I enjoyed reading about.
The end of this is Damian Wayne getting to the bottom of Zsasz's cage fighting operation. Zsasz is not a character I've really come into contact with before. I wiki'ed him and I had seen him once on the Gotham TV show but he really didn't make much of an impression. Here, he did because he was pretty formidable as an opponent. To be honest, in everything I've read with Damian (and that's quite a lot) this is the most violent and bloody fight I've seen him in.
He meets Colin Wilkes in this story, Abuse, and they form a bond. I liked watching them work together.
So, it's a recommend if you can get past the beginning because it was a little hard to read.