![]() Leonardo Romero's art is as outstanding as ever – the fight between Big Barda and Wonder Woman teased in the issue's preview pages is worth the price of admission alone, but there's so much other brutal and beautiful artistry on display. Kelly Thompson's script continues to amaze, upping the ante magnificently without ever jumping the shark into total absurdity. ![]() The Birds of Prey's Themysciran battle comes to a head in another glorious issue. While only time will tell if Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight sticks its landing, it's already a fun, festive crossover that deserves your attention this holiday season. As the beginning of an unlikely collaboration between DC's Dark Knight and Father Christmas, the issue lays some meaningful groundwork while still having fun with the larger-than-life qualities of its protagonists. Rating: 2 out of 5 BATMAN/SANTA CLAUS: SILENT KNIGHT #1 īatman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1 offers exactly what its title suggests, and the end result is weird and whimsical where it counts. The only real plus is that Jimenez' art makes things at least fun to look at. But there's a fine line between something being neat and fun in terms of nostalgia and using it as a crutch to cover a lackluster story that's simply trying too hard and this issue is sadly a case of the latter. On top of that, Batman #140 seems determined to be more of a patchwork of random Batman references and callbacks rather than a coherent story. There's a lot of things here that could be developed into an interesting story, but instead, there's no real sense of direction with the storytelling which results in continuous loop of Batman chasing his own tail (in this case, a will he/won't he dance of losing his mind against Zur-En-Arrh) and now we've looped our way back to a Failsafe redux it seems. Batman #140, like much of Zdarsky's current Batman story, is a case of potential squandered.
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