Ouch, the first bad volume in the Red Hood series.

While we drifted away from the Dark Trinity (A dumb idea, Lobdell had struck gold with those 3) we get focused on just Jason. This volume has him trying to become the Prince of Gotham by taking out as many crime lords as possible while he has Penguin kidnapped. We also have the annual which lets us know what happened to the second half of the trinity.

Overall, this was all over the place. The pacing was messy, the trinity stuff was...tacked on. The twist at the end was out of nowhere. The art remains decent and Jason can be a likeable character. However everything else feels forced and...boring? Yeah boring works here.

A 2 out of 5.