batman the brave and the bold birds of prey full episode

Score: 6/10 Batman and Plastic Man in “Bending the Rules” The sound effects alone were enough to elicit the childlike joy that comes from reading a fun comic.

Steve Wands’ lettering skills are also on full display, and boy are they fun. Nikola Čižmešija’s style is incredibly dynamic, and paired with Nick Filardi’s colors, it’s an incredibly exciting visual experience, and really captures the weird magic shenanigans going on. The art is really where this story shines.

It feels like a story that someone pitched to be its own book and got rejected, but it’s still an extremely fun romp that’s sure to satisfy fans of both Batman and Zatanna. There’s a ton of backstory, complicated relationships, and plot threads to follow, and this could have massively benefitted from being its own issue. Overall, I’d say this story is the one that suffers the most from the problems I mentioned in the opening. Overall, I haven’t been the biggest fan of this story, as it’s been a bit too complicated and messy for my taste. We finally start getting some answers about Bruce and Zatanna’s complicated history, and the nature of their pact. Vita Ayala’s fifth installment in Batman’s magical adventure is a great penultimate episode.

I’m sure I’ll scream about this more than enough in issues to come, though, so without further ado, let’s jump right in! Batman & Zatanna in “Bound to Our Will: Part 5” One or two multi-parters wouldn’t be so bad, but 3 out of 4 of these stories are episodic installments, and having to buy 6 issues for 1 issue’s worth of story just seems a bit much. Ironically, the only one so far that has genuinely kept me hooked is “Hounded”, which has only been running for the past 5 issues. The multi-parters never feel like they have enough time per issue, and, as a result, they often feel either overcrowded or too empty. I will say that I have one pretty major problem with this series so far, and that is the lack of stand-alone stories.

Batman the brave and the bold birds of prey full episode