I read and reviewed each of the four comics collected here separately, so this is basically just for my own records. The three star rating reflects the average of the individual ratings. It does not reflect that Year One started out very well indeed and went downhill from there. The whole thing was mildly interesting - and the narrative structure in that first comic was outstanding, really - but the absolutely pedestrian handling of Jim Gordon's even more pedestrian relationship with Essen sucked up too much time and page space and made an otherwise decent character look not only exceptionally stupid, but lacking in basic integrity.

Points for the bat swarms, the cat saving, and the careful handling of little Holly, though.