This is another great graphic novel, and a worthy sequel to The Long Halloween. I thought the story was nice and gripping (just like a Batman story should be!), while the illustrations were wonderfully done, making the whole read that much better. I enjoyed the Catwoman character once again, and thought that the author did a great job with the Robin character. I highly recommend this book to any, and every, Batman fan!


stunning sequel to Long Halloween   July 24, 2003
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The Long Halloween was a stunning trade paperback, and this sequel is the same. Unfortunately, a bit too much the same!
Basically someone is killing the mob family leaders one by one, on different holidays, leaving a clue each time in the form of a hangman game. Batman tries to unravel
the clues but then the killings start targeting cops too.
The story is very similar to TLH, but that isn't such a bad thing, as it is a great story, with Batman, Catwoman and Gordon all desperately trying to unravel the
mystery of the killer. The artwork is dark and gothic, exactly as Batman should be. Tying in the debut of Dick Grayson as Robin is a great move, especially as he
plays a minor role which proves important without overshadowing the main story. Definitely recommended.
There are rumours that the author and artist will do a follow up to cover Catwoman's journey to Italy.


Good artwork - substandard plot   April 22, 2002
 6 out of 9 found this review helpful

This story takes up where "the Long Halloween" finished. TLH was one of my all time favourites and so I was very excited about this book. I have to say that I was a bit dissapointed. This book is a sequal in the very worst "hollywood" sense of the word. They have taken the seemingly complete story of TLH and streched it out to another book. It's basically more of the same, which is no bad thing, but just a little dissapointing. I wish they'd tried to come up with sometihng new.
That said the book has many good points - the artwork is, of course, perfect. The entire book looks ... classy, with loads of nice touches (like the chapter headers etc...). The story line was not all bad either. The re-hashing of the Robin origin is dealt with very smoothly, if a bit briefly, but the scenes comparing Dick Grayson to a young Bruce Wayne are genius.
To sum up: this book is simply not as good as TLH but is still a quality title which fans will lap up. Not a must have, but certainly a good buy.