All right, I get it. Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s new Batman: H2SH is wrong-headed about every opportunity it has to be.
I … didn’t hate it?
If you’re a BFOCE (Batman Fan of a Certain Era), a lot of the problems with this book are old hat. I could go back and read Batman: Murderer/Fugitive and it would have very similar troubles, but I could dismiss those as artifacts of the time — we know better, we do better. H2SH doesn’t have quite that excuse — it’s written, of course, in the here and now — and were this the kickoff arc of Matt Fraction’s new ongoing Batman run, I might feel differently.
