Everything we are being told and shown betrays any actual hope of a solution. 76-year old Batman and Superman got melted in the World Forge while giant monster Hawkman struck nightmares around them. In issue #5, Wonder Woman got actually shot in the actual head. I have completely lost any sense of consistency and continuity in what is happening and everything just seems like a play for shock value. I could go into all the reasons I think it fails in telling a complete and compelling story, but I really don’t have that much room. Oh, is the Ultima Thule being led into yet another trap while featuring the first shreds of hope that someone can defeat even one of the Evil Batmen (hint: it’s Raven who is a legit badass in this issue)? Let’s have another Bobo page!įor real, this comic has turned into such a waste of time. The Batman Who Laughs is a character that is truly frightening, but, hey, let’s spend some pages working through Bobo’s life in the circus. That’s what we’ve gotten after the creation of some of the most vicious villains ever to grace a comics page. To know this book is to understand the following sentence: This is a book about a chimp. Put aside the cover art, featuring horses that never appear in the comic. Put aside the title, which refers to The Wild Hunt of folklore where fairies, elves, or an army of the dead ride across the land harbinging catastrophe.