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Batman: The Last Arkham by Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle
4.0

Arkham is rebuilt!

This time though things are going different.

When killings start happening, Batman goes to the newly built Arkham ran by Jeremiah Arkham. He believes Zsasz is out there killing people, but even Batman can see him still in Arkham soon after the killings happened. Batman tries a new plan to get closer to the system in Arkham, but can it happen? That's the question.

Some cool twist and turns here, even if have to suspend your belief more than usual. I really liked the first outlook of new Arkham by Jeremiah. It felt more strict, and kind of brutal how he got results, but also they semi-worked? A twisted way.

I liked Batman here, very much a detective. I also enjoyed his team up with Nightwing, was nice to see them work together despite having issues at this point in their life. The ending was real solid and a fun opening to a very long run but Mr. Grant for his Shadow of the Bat series.