Comics Corner: The Long Halloween 5

Title: Batman: The Long Halloween

Issue Number: 5

Release Date: April 1997

Highlights

• Made me want to get back to reading Spider-Man comics

Low Points

• I'm officially bored with this story - It's the same cookie cutter plot and pace for each issue
• Feel like I've read the same book five times, just with a different coat of paint
• Story is not advancing

Oddities

• People consider this one of the greatest Batman stories ever told

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Bat Symbols grading system)

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Comics Corner: The Long Halloween 4

Title: Batman: The Long Halloween

Issue Number: 4

Release Date: March 1997

Highlights

• Joker returns, crazier than ever

Low Points

• Story is getting very repetitive, and not advancing quickly enough
• Starting to lose interest

Oddities

• Artwork feels like it's getting worse
• Joker steals a plane, and it just so happens to have a Joker style smiley face on the front?

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Bat Symbols grading system)

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Comics Corner: The Long Halloween 3

Title: Batman: The Long Halloween

Issue Number: 3

Release Date: February 1997

Highlights

• Joker's massive pistol - You have to see it to believe it, and it's funny
• Joker adds another interesting layer to the story

Low Points

• Probably the worst drawings of Joker I've ever seen in a Batman comic - Looks awful

Oddities

• Joker defeats Harvey Dent in a fight by kicking him in the privates

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Bat Symbols grading system)

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Comics Corner: The Long Halloween 2

Title: Batman: The Long Halloween

Issue Number: 2

Release Date: January 1997

Highlights

• Intriguing entry that makes you want to keep reading, but...

Low Points

• ...Felt short, and nothing really got accomplished
• Story doesn't feel like it's advancing
• Cover is misleading - Solomon Grundy is neither predominant nor relevant to the story

Oddities

• Harvey Dent got blown up, and there's not a scratch on him, yet his wife is covered head to toe in bandages in a hospital bed

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Bat Symbols grading system)

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Comics Corner: The Long Halloween 1

Title: Batman: The Long Halloween

Issue Number: 1

Release Date: December 1996

Highlights

• You can see the inspiration which lead into Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy
• Very mysterious plot builds in this first of thirteen issues
• Harvey Dent's gets blown up

Low Points

• Not sold on why Catwoman needs to be involved - She doesn't do anything

Oddities

• Artwork feels sloppy and undefined, pretty bad for a premium priced book

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Bat Symbols grading system)

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