A friend of Bruce Wayne dies after being injected with the drug Icarus and that means that his alter ego Batman goes on a revenge spree to catch the sons of bitches that is behind it before more people die.

The art is the best part in this book; I just wish the story had been as good. But I admit that I personally just don't find stories involved drugs and gangs that interesting and I found this book suffered because there wasn't any really interesting villain for Batman to face. I mean I sit here a couple of days after I had read the book and I can't think of anything really memorable about it. No funny one-liners or anything to screenshot or any great battles with some enemy, well the octopus was a bit cool, but beside her was everything just meh!

I received this copy from DC Comics through Edelweiss in return for an honest review! ( )

I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars.

The story was very routine, nothing really outstanding or new. Even the back and forth banter between Bruce Wayne/Batman and Harvey Bullock seemed forced. The entire storyline seemed forced.

The artwork is really what carried this volume, and is the reason it didn't get 2.5 stars. Looking forward to see what else Francis Manapul does with the Detective. ( )

The Detective Comics flavor of Batman has always been the title that I didn’t like quite as much as the others, and the one that sometimes I get confused by. It tends to be much grittier than the other Batman titles as well (which is saying something), and sometimes I like that while other times it’s just too much. This TPB was sort of in the middle of that scale.

In this one it’s Batman and Bullock going up against some newcomer drug pushers in Gotham, as well as up against each other. (Heh, those were fun scenes to read). Harvey ironically also goes up against Bruce Wayne when someone stumbles onto his property while dying.

There were also a lot of fight scenes which I didn’t love, but, once I got into the story I will say that it was really, really engrossing.

I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment. ( )