Uhhhh I didn't like this? Is that weird? Like I know people love Paul Dini for the animated Batman series but I don't find his Batman books all that fun. This is the third Batman book I read of his that I didn't like.

Basically, this is a bunch of stories of Batman doing his best hard boil impression of a detective. Solving cases while the Riddler tries to prove he's good and becoming a detective himself. We have the villains you'd always expect to see from Penguin to poison ivy to the infamous Joker. All working against Batman to push him to his limits to solve the case. Basically, it's a bunch of episodes of the animated TV show in Comic Format.

Good: I think fans of the animated show will feel right at home. Paul Dini's Joker is also solid and the story with him and Robin was the best in the collection by far. Also, the art is pretty solid.

Bad: All of these stories, aside from the Joker one, are really forgettable. I hated the Poison Ivy story almost enough to stop reading. I don't feel there's any stakes in any of these issues because it feels like a weekly cartoon episode so we know Batman will be fine. The dialogue never really captures Batman, least not for me.

Overall, it's okay. I'll admit I'm that oddball who never liked the animated series, so these just won't gel with me. So I think I'm the weird one here, but this was just okay at best. A 2.5 out of 5.