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This Review Was Submitted by Knightwingbk:

Writer: Paul Dini
Artists: Joe Benitez & Victor Llamas

Joe Benitez draws a H-O-T Poison Ivy, that's why they put him on this book. Is his Batman good? Maybe. However, his style does not fit the mood and tone of the book and that is what ruined this book for me.

After two amazing issues, Paul Dini has hit a snag. Sure Poison Ivy is a favorite of Dini's but here, she does literally nothing. In Arkham, Poison Ivy is attacked by monstrous plants, and barely escapes with her life. She goes to the Police for help, who hand her over to Batman. Where she occupies a tube in the batcave for the rest of the issue. Terribly un-exciting. Dini writes Batman and Robin like his other two issues, but they do not feel the same because of the art. Missing in this issue is the glimpse of the return of Bruce Wayne. He's nowhere to be found in this issue, and Dini has made him too good of a character on his own for him to be absent.

Joe Benitez's Batman is too stiff. Nothing happens in these panels that makes you stop and go, "WOW." I'm not complaining about his cartoony style, I like it, but not in a Batman book. Now I sound like Omar and his Humberto Ramos rant on Wolverine! Except that this is a worse case than that one. Ramos has been doing a good job on the title, whereas here I could not see Benitez carrying the book for multiple issues. His art is too McFarlane/Image-y for Dini's Batman. Nothing spectacular in this issue, C-.