The characters are incredibly well-fleshed out (to the best of my recollection there aren’t really any that felt as though they were just thrown in). This is, essentially, a dark and gritty ‘who dunnit’ and as far as Batman stories go, you’ll struggle to find many better. A serial Killer called ‘Holiday’ is killing members of one of the families, each death falling on a different calendar holiday throughout the year. Batman, Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Dent are trying their best to take these families down once and for all. The Long Halloween is a noir-style tale with the main backdrop being the tension between two rival gang families in Gotham. I had forgotten most of the story and had certainly forgotten how good it was. I’m currently watching DC Universe’s Titans on Netflix and decided I wanted some Batman in my life, so I dipped my hands into one of the many trunks of graphic novels I have and pulled out ‘The Long Halloween’. It’s been far too long since I read a graphic novel. My Rating of ‘Batman: The Long Halloween’: 5 out of 5

A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer, this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batman’s deadly enemy, Two-Face.

Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the clock as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. Taking place during Batman’s early days of crime-fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays.

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