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Batman: Urban Legends #1 — Chip Zdarsky, Stephanie Phillips, Brandon Thomas, Matthew Rosenberg, Writers; Eddy Barrows/Eber Ferreira, Laura Braga, Max Dunbar, Ryan Benjamin, Artists; Adriano Lucas, Ivan Plascencia, Luis Guerrero, Antonio Fabela, Colorists
Ray — 9/10
Ray: There are too many plot threads in Gotham to count, so DC is supplementing the Bat-line with the oversized anthology Urban Legends. This first issue has four stories continuing threads introduced in Future State-and introducing a major new talent to the Bat-line.
That would be Chip Zdarsky, who teams with regular Bat-artist Eddy Barrows on a Red Hood/Batman story. Red Hood’s gotten quite the spotlight lately with a-list talents taking on the Batfam’s bad boy. From the start, there’s a clever twist to explain Red Hood’s closer work with his family-he uses rubber bullets now. This oversized story-about thirty pages-pits both Red Hood and his former mentor against a new street drug that’s destroying Gotham. Called Cheerdrops, it seems to work like a drug version of the Black Mercy-making people see their fondest desires, even as it puts them in a coma or makes…
