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Batman: Night of the Monster Men by Steve Orlando, Tom King, Ivan Plascencia, James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley
2.0

Okay...yeah...okay...

So this isn't horrible idea. But the execution could have been so much better.

We have Hugo basically creating monsters around the city. Batman and friends have to stop this beast. After the death of "you know who" Batman is on the edge. He doesn't want any of his people getting involved in this. Of course Dick and Batwomen like "Bitch please we do what we want brah" and Batman all like "NOOOOO!"

That's my biggest issue. Batman seems so out of character and almost useless here. It's really thanks to Nightwing and Batwomen that anything gets done. Also they underutilized Spoiler and Batgir- I mean Orphan. So that fucking sucked.

The art is fine, and there's some enjoyable big monster take down moments, but overall it's just not all that great. Maybe next time the crossover could have a Batman that actually reacts like BATMAN. You know, like when Damien died. That was amazing.