With James Tynion tanking the main Batman title so consistently and thoroughly I thought Peter Tomasi would be doing at least a bit better with the other long-running Batman title, Detective Comics, but, amazingly, he’s managing to do as piss-poor of a job! Like the previous volume, this one has nothing to recommend it.
Greetings from Gotham is made up of three short stories. In the first, someone is killing Gotham coppers and the Spectre is involved. Here’s my hot take on the Spectre: “spectre” crap read whenever he’s around! Athankyew… but, yeah, this was an awful story. The second is Joker taking over a funfair for no reason - it’s so jaw-droppingly generic, it’s amazing it got published. That story has “filler” written all over it.
The third and final story is also the longest: Batman, Deadshot and a bunch of nobodies get stranded on a remote island and have to survive. Batman encounters two unlikely survivors of WW2 and nobody can put two and two together that Bruce Wayne is missing from the group but someone who looks a helluva lot like Batman is larping around this tiny rock. Duuuuuh…
If this was my first Tomasi Batman comic I’d say he’s nothing but a hack because that’s all that’s here; instantly forgettable, half-baked crap, all the way through. He’s also teasing a Mr Freeze storyline that I’m not excited about, partly because I don’t care about the character and partly because Tomasi doesn’t seem to be trying anymore so it’ll probably be as crap as this and the last volume of Detective Comics. Le sigh. Anyhoo - like everyone else involved in the creation of this turd, I would not make any effort in picking up Detective Comics, Volume 3: Greetings from Gotham.
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