Batman: The Long Halloween: Part Two

After an amazing Part One I expected to like that very much. But I didn't. At least nowhere NEAR as much as Part 1.

It starts off promising with a very interesting opening title sequence. But I did not like the resolution of the mystery. The culprit was right, the outcome was not.

When Holiday shows up and kills Moroni in front of Two-Face I knew it was Gilda. Why? Because Gordon says that sometimes leads don't pan out. I say, sometimes they do. The clues all led to the killer living at Harvey's house. If it wasn't Harvey, that hardly puts them back at square one. I am a bit frustrated Gilda was not the focus of the investigation after that. I know that's not how mysteries work, but as far as I was concerned, the Holiday Killer not being Harvey meant it was Gilda. Is Batman The World's Greatest Detective or not? Not hardly. At least not yet.

The thing that upsets me is that Batman let her go at the end. I don't know if he did it as a favor to Harvey or what, but I find that idea utterly obscene. I'm guessing it's from the comic because only a comic book would do something that appalling. I guess the movie was true to it, but it sucked. Either the rules apply to everybody or they don't. If Bruce is setting unfair standards for which murderers to bring in and which to let slide based on personal favors, he's no better than his rotten parents.

Speaking of which, I'm going to bring this up in every Batman project going forward. I'm not sure if I have already, but it's about time I did if I haven't. The murders of the Waynes have gotten intolerable. It is played the eff out. There is no new angle they can give it. They need to stop showing it while that is. I find it tiresome and boring, which is NOT what that moment should ever be. It has completely lost whatever power it used to hold over me. And I'm going to repeat and repeat this specific complaint going forward. And I bet I'll have to complain about it a LOT. DC just can't stop with it.

The Flash and Green Arrow tag was neither here or there so I didn't like it.

As far as culprits go, that was a solid mystery. As far as story resolutions go, it kind of sucked. ***.