In my review of Batman and Robin Vol. 2: The Gotham Cycle, I praised writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson for his range, which has taken us from Superman’s gladiator revolution on Warworld to a supernatural Batman whodunit.
With Johnson’s third and final volume of this run, Batman and Robin Vol. 3: The Quiet Man, he works in another genre, now a more straightforward story of Batman versus his villains (still with a touch of whodunit). It’s great, in the sense that the story is as well done as Johnson’s previous, and also that toward the very end, I think Johnson hits upon a paradigm for the Batman and Robin book that might actually work going forward (just as the title ends, naturally).
