Peter J. Tomasi closes out his dismal run on Detective Comics with a (thankfully) final dismal volume, tying into the wretched Joker War storyline.
The main storyline is Two-Face (or is it…?) randomly starting his own Two-Face religion where his followers are called Vice or Versa. I know, it’s pitiful. It makes little sense and is even less entertaining. It features some New 52 callbacks for no reason like the Court of Owls and the Mecha-Batsuit Gordon wore for a spell. Why do the Court of Owls keep dangerous insubordinate Talons like Lincoln March around instead of just killing them off entirely? How does Two-Face get the Mecha-Batsuit? Because Tomasi is a nananananana-hack-man!
The Pennyworth RIP issue is also included here. It’s just the Bat-fam, sans masks/capes, sitting in a gloomy pub swapping boring Alfred stories - snore. Another snoozeworthy tale sees Batman going to Eastern Europe to fight some nobody that had something to do with Alfred when he was “Agent Pennyworth”, and the Joker War tie-in issue is also here where Batman and Batwoman fight Joker goons in a graveyard.
Closing out this pointless and consistently boring book is a story where Killer Croc encounters some muties in the sewers (ie. a crummier TMNT-type origin story) and Mariko Tamaki writes some drivel about a cop who loses his partner in the Joker War - I expect we’ll see more of him in her run. Can’t wai… zzz…
I’m not a fan of Tamaki’s comics but I can safely say she can’t do worse than Tomasi has during his recent tenure on Detective Comics. Volume 5: The Joker War is bad and easily missable as most of the preceding books were - don’t bother, anyone.
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