Wow. This totally fell apart in the end. The series started off strong, bogged down a bit with little too much "Godfather" picked up speed again, then lost control and wiped out in the middle of the road as if it hit a patch of black ice.
The bad Batman characterization continues here show it wasn't just a fluke. The whole "Bruce Wayne vs Batman" schtick is tired to be begin with and in Ivory's clumsy hands it doesn't improve (it was never used better than in Batman Beyond).
She also ruins Sal by having him only stay in the family business of assassination because he wanted to protect Helena and now he's consumed with guilt over her being The Huntress now. What made Sal work was that on one had he was this ruthless assassin, but at the same time a loving cousin and ultimately seeking redemption for love. That he could be so horrible on one hand and so tender on the other made him interesting. This does not (and there's still no self-awareness on Helena's part about the orphans he created though his actions).
Catwoman continues to show for no reason whatsoever other than as an homage to the original Earth-2 Huntress. Sigh. I love Helena Bertinelli too, but she's in the JSA Annual this month. We can get our fix there. Enough with the homages.
And the climactic scene just gets more absurd with each panel. First, there's the silly Catwoman appearance. Then The Huntress cuts out Omerta's tongue while Batman does nothing. Then she knocks Batgirl of a motorcycle with one arm, steals it, hops on it with her brother and rides to a church. Batman and Catwoman follow her, but Batgirl doesn't. Why? Well, because only "mom and dad" are needed for the scene where they engage in the most shallow characterizations of themselves while she baptizes herself as The Huntress. Yeah, lets ride that homage train until the wheels fall off.
Sigh. I'm not going to need this as a trade, that's for sure. In fact, I may need to read Rucka's "Cry For Blood" one more time to wash this incredible taste of disappointment out of my mouth.
The bad Batman characterization continues here show it wasn't just a fluke. The whole "Bruce Wayne vs Batman" schtick is tired to be begin with and in Ivory's clumsy hands it doesn't improve (it was never used better than in Batman Beyond).
She also ruins Sal by having him only stay in the family business of assassination because he wanted to protect Helena and now he's consumed with guilt over her being The Huntress now. What made Sal work was that on one had he was this ruthless assassin, but at the same time a loving cousin and ultimately seeking redemption for love. That he could be so horrible on one hand and so tender on the other made him interesting. This does not (and there's still no self-awareness on Helena's part about the orphans he created though his actions).
Catwoman continues to show for no reason whatsoever other than as an homage to the original Earth-2 Huntress. Sigh. I love Helena Bertinelli too, but she's in the JSA Annual this month. We can get our fix there. Enough with the homages.
And the climactic scene just gets more absurd with each panel. First, there's the silly Catwoman appearance. Then The Huntress cuts out Omerta's tongue while Batman does nothing. Then she knocks Batgirl of a motorcycle with one arm, steals it, hops on it with her brother and rides to a church. Batman and Catwoman follow her, but Batgirl doesn't. Why? Well, because only "mom and dad" are needed for the scene where they engage in the most shallow characterizations of themselves while she baptizes herself as The Huntress. Yeah, lets ride that homage train until the wheels fall off.
Sigh. I'm not going to need this as a trade, that's for sure. In fact, I may need to read Rucka's "Cry For Blood" one more time to wash this incredible taste of disappointment out of my mouth.