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Red Hood and the Outlaws #18 Review

5 / 5

This is the surprise hit of the month for me. Issue 18 of RHatO is the kind of book I think we as fans have been waiting for since the announcement of the series. Following the Joker's last gag against the Bat Family from issue 17, we find Bruce and Jason devastated - physically in Jason's case, mentally in Bruce's - by the event. While physically Jason will recover, he finds himself trapped in a nightmare guided by his mentor, Ducra (see early issues of the series to find out more). The entire point of the book is to get Jason to acknowledge that he can't continue being the loose, amoral cannon he's been since his resurrection. Meanwhile, Bruce gets a great deal of quiet time to reflect at Jason's bedside about what's happened to their relationship. The conclusion to the book is one of the most exciting moments I've had in the last couple of years of reading, and I can't wait to see where the series (and Jason in the other Bat titles for that matter) goes from here. I think it's safe to say also that you can have skipped all of the previous issues of RHatO and be able to jump in here without any problems. This is just a classic Bat Family story.