3/2/2023 0 Comments Ghost giant review![]() ![]() Because it’s so dumb I cannot become emotionally invested in anything going on. The other part of me is simply frustrated by the mountain of nonsense. There’s a part of me that loves watching bad movies, and that’s the part of me that is left liking this series. ![]() ![]() It’s all so ridiculous that I genuinely can’t tell if the creative team is intending for us to take it seriously or not. The entire time characters are delivering quippy one liners and overdramatic threats. You’ve got giant fights against zombie Talons, a 5-way battle between various Batmen based on a bunch of misunderstandings, and a maniacal Joe Chill brought back from the dead to kill Bruce Wayne using his son that he found wandering around Hell. The entire premise of the story is completely absurd on its face, and it almost reaches the point of enjoyment from the sheer camp. It’s a poorly executed concept for the sake of drama, and its presence as a final boss to fight is completely contrived. There have been other stories that try to up Chill’s importance by making him a hired assassin or something, and those are bad too, but this takes it to a new, absurd level. He needs to be just some random criminal to motivate Bruce’s war on crime. It attempts to turn Chill into some ultimate nemesis for Batman (Lord knows he doesn’t have enough of those), but by vastly overstating his narrative role, it loses why Joe Chill works as a concept. He does not have some absurd ideological commitment to crime as a concept, which Batman then ruined. Joe Chill was just some random mugger looking to steal a pearl necklace. How does Joe Chill even know about Batman? Did he learn all of his secrets while in Hell? Perhaps more importantly, why would he even care? Apparently he regrets that his murder led to the creation of Batman and wants to correct his mistake. We’re given a small amount of exposition as to Chill’s logic, but it doesn’t help much. If you were hoping that this issue would give some explanation as to why that makes any sense, then you’re going to be sorely disappointed. ![]() The big twist at the end of the last issue was that Damian is being possessed by the ghost of Joe Chill, looking to use him to kill Bruce Wayne. ![]()
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