Red Hood #1

Red Hood #1 does everything a first issue should do and does it well. It introduces our title character, the setting, and a good central conflict. The action is appropriately intense, and it does not use its mature readers label as an excuse for overt brutality. This is easily the best detective comic to come out of DC Comics in years. Read Full Review

Red Hood Issue 1 gives Jason Todd true independence. Taking him away from Gotham and into a brand new city provides the second Robin with his own identity. Read Full Review

Its remarkable just how quick DC was to cancel this series after her comments on the murder of radical right-wing political pundit Charlie Kirk. Not much time had passed since the man's death before the author made comment. The series cancellation wasnt that much later than that. Everything changed on this series in something like 24-48 hours. Its pretty staggering how quickly it all happened. Read Full Review

Gretchen Felker-Martin delivers a great story about the new life of Jason Todd. Red Hood #1 has the grittiness you love from the Batman comics, the action you're excited to see in DC Comics, and a killer storyline that leaves you wanting to read so much more. With a great amount of mystery surrounding the story, it's hard not to sit anxiously while waiting for the next issue to drop. Read Full Review

Red Hood #1 is a strong start to what has the potential to be a standout series. The intrigue is there, the new setting is a perfect fit, and the mystery of the cop killings is enough to hook you from the first page. With an established cast and a compelling mystery to solve, consider me excited for what comes next. Read Full Review

Videos by ComicBook.comWriter Gretchen Felker-Martin brilliantly sets the tone and overall vibe of the series in the first 5 pages, conveying the state of the city and how much of a shift the locale is from Hood's normal stomping grounds of Gotham. Read Full Review

It's a promising start, and Spokes' art is excellent, but this first issue sets up more than it delivers right out of the gate. Read Full Review

Red Hood #1 is not just another anti-hero storyits a recalibration. Grit, desperation, and violence arent window dressing; theyre the core. The creative teamFelker-Martins muscular prose, Spokess concrete-chiseled art, Careys confident ballooningcreate an atmosphere that feels lived in and unflinching. This issue isnt for those who just want to watch Jason skate by. Its for readers who want to feel what its like to carry a rifle in hand while your bones still ache from old wounds. Its a combustible cocktail of noir and superhero myth, and it leaves you standing in the asheshungry for more. Read Full Review

Jason Todd is a cool, complex character ripe for this kind of genre story, and it's sad that we'll never see the end of this. Read Full Review

Jason Todd feels right at home in the city of New Angelique and his new mature targeted solo series. Felker-Martin gives the series and its main character a voice distinct among the extended Bat-family group of titles and perhaps all of DCs anti-heroes. Red Hood #1 is a must have for fans of hardboiled and noir detective fiction. Read Full Review

DC's mature Red Hood series has hit the shelves, but the concepts it explores would work better in a DC Black Label series. Read Full Review

I think Red Hood #1 is a good start for this new series. While the story isn't anything groundbreaking, the mystery left me intrigued for the next issue. The artwork by Jeff Spokes complements the story really well. And I'm curious to see how Red Hood and Huntress' relationship develops, and I enjoy found seeing Jason in a new setting refreshing. Read Full Review

orbisstelassis

Sep 14, 2025

This book was promising and beautiful. DC editorial can go eat worms for cancelling it. Transphobes stay angry, bitter and isolated. You are creatures of hate and cannot win.

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Hex - Sep 14, 2025

It sucks that something like this controversy is the only real reason people thought to pick up a Red Hood book. Jason and Helena never get treated right by the family or the fans.

Tempra16v2.0Turbo - Sep 15, 2025

Hex - Helena was a great character in Mariko Tamaki's Detective Comics. I would even say that she has had a better time in recent years than Tim, for example, and even Barbara (who became a lampshade in Nightwing). And many Huntress fans didn't want Helena in this comic because the reason she was there was to support Jason, a character with whom she never exchanged a word (I think).

Jawnyblaze

Sep 15, 2025

Haven't read it yet but I came here knowing it was going to be review bombed by bigots. A happy accident for me, I accidentally ordered two of the 1:50 Jim Lee covers and those seem to be sky rocketing in value lol. I'll come back to this after I read it and adjust accordingly. Just wanted to counterbalance some of the bad faith review bombing for now.

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Lions - Sep 15, 2025

Great. Personally, I didn't like Jason's portrayal; he's very emo and unpleasantly sexist, etc. However, I bought the standard cover, and after the scandal, I managed to buy other covers at a great price. Now I wait and resell.

ChuckTurds

Sep 16, 2025

Gretchen is an outstanding human being who should be applauded for her principled stand against Nazi scum. The world needs more people like her.

Maud Benjamin

Sep 11, 2025

Honestly not bad. Shame that the book got cancelled because the writer said something inappropriate.

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ChuckTurds - Sep 16, 2025

shame that hating nazis is seen as inappropriate.

Maud Benjamin - Nov 10, 2025

Celebrating a political assassination is, of course, inappropriate.

fthissite

Sep 11, 2025

Too many hoods in this book lol. I liked it and that's about all I'll say as it's now cancelled. Normally I'd rather something get cancelled based on poor sales or shitty writing but this dummy just doesn't know how to keep it's mouth shut. Yeah, if you wanna just throw awful insults around you deserve to be called an it.

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Hex - Sep 11, 2025

Did you really call her "it". You're a huge piece of shit.

fthissite - Sep 12, 2025

Did you even read what I wrote???? Love that you jump this. TBH I knew someone like you would. You may as well say "You called someone an asshole??? How dare you you?" Do you understand context? Do you even know what was said? You're a moron but I guess for people like you it can't go both ways right? Trans people are not some protected species immune from insult.

fthissite - Sep 12, 2025

My girlfriend is trans and if she said something like this pos said I'd first break up then call her the same thing. Calling someone who doesn't agree with you a nazi is pretty insulting too but that's ok. Fact is arguing with a POS like you never gets anywhere so or solves anything because your immune to change....which is pretty conservative thinking now that I think about it. Anyhow I'm done. Rant away.

Psycamorean - Sep 12, 2025

I'm sure your girlfriend would love to know that her basic validity and humanity is contingent on whether or not she agrees with you.

Hex - Sep 12, 2025

So you deliberately used "it" as an insult. With a trans girlfriend. Okay bud.

Hex - Sep 12, 2025

He supported Nazis. He was supported by Nazis. He carried Nazi ideals. He was a Nazi. Why don't you tell your girlfriend you called another trans person "it" because they said something you disagreed with and THEN tell them that you'd do that same to them if they had said it. See how that works out for you.

Tempra16v2.0Turbo - Sep 16, 2025

"Everyone I don't like is a Nazi"

ChuckTurds - Sep 16, 2025

Sad nazis make me happy.

Hex - Sep 20, 2025

I think you need to understand what hate speech is. What Gretchen said is not hate speech. What Choo Choo Charles said many times was dangerously close to hate speech which is why the people who actually use it liked him so much.

Psycamorean - Sep 21, 2025

It's curious that you consider everything from wokeness to be a flop while also insisting people are woke for the sake of profit in other reviews. Also, do your research. Gretchen was a total edgelord who didn't just suddenly say something controversial, which is another reason her firing is suspect. DC had to have known. Charlie Kirk wasn't just a little guy either. He was instrumental in the hate that many people in America now face. He was instrumental in the rise of this Trumpian fascism.

Psycamorean - Sep 21, 2025

If Jesus were around, he'd have found Charlie and those like him disgraceful. If the gospel were real, there's no doubt Charlie's burning in eternal hellfire right now. He was a propagandist who served the worst of humanity and his wife and friends aren't even sad that he's gone. His corpse is yet another grifting opportunity for these vultures, and I'm sure Charlie would be proud to be another tool.

ChuckTurds - Sep 21, 2025 (edited)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI "Everyone I don't like is a Nazi" No, Nazis are Nazis. Kirk was Nazi scum, and the world is better for every dead Nazi.

Hex - Sep 21, 2025 (edited)

Would like to point out that fthissite essentially self-reported on the Nazi front. He brought it up completely out of nowhere. No one called him a Nazi or even insinuated that. I just called him a POS for intentionally misgendering a trans woman with the term, "it". That might be your smoking gun...

Hex - Sep 23, 2025 (edited)

Sorry buddy. You missed the rapture. I'm SURE they missed you.

fthissite - Oct 9, 2025

Anyone who's been on here a while & mainly through the years of insanity where Hex & his ilk ran rampant with the virtue signaling (woke if you want to call it that) nonsense can recall the use of the nazi word they constantly brought up.I didn't bring it up out of nowhere pal. Besides inflation, their stupidity was a main factor in the cheetos mans return. Congrats guys. #TRONWASRIGHT.

fthissite - Oct 9, 2025

Charlie Kirk was horrible but so are Hex, psychamorean, chuckturds and sad comics. Your all just sensitive man children who have no integrity, just the illusion of it. Fuck you all. Adios.

Hex - Oct 10, 2025 (edited)

Bro you've been here a year. It literally says Oct 1, 2024. You haven't seen me for "years". On top of that, I took time off for a long while. I hadn't posted anything for almost a year myself really until USM had come out. What are you even talking about? Virtue signaling is bad and that's why the Annoying Orange is still here but calling out Nazis is a bad thing and that's NOT why we're heading towards an authoritarian regime. Okay. You're a centrist fence sitter. How's that for integrity?

daspidaboy

Sep 11, 2025

literally did not know this book was cancelled until reading the comments. Removing any political biases aside, it's fine. But I expected better. The art was good though

Afre

Sep 11, 2025

Well, that's it. With the news of this book being now cancelled, I can't say I am terribly sad. Not because this was a bad comic, but mostly because it was a continuation to H2SH and the less we talk about that, the better.

Criminology.

Sep 13, 2025

This is competentent, but to me it feels somewhat creatively bankrupt. From what the city is, to the whole thing Jason is going through. It feels like Nightwing in the 90s and even some more recent red hood comics and maybe it is an effect that the writer wants to achieve, that wants to honor, but for me this comics has a hard time justifying its existance. There is things to like. For example Jeff Spokes art is spectacular and the visial direction that he decied to follow also. The colors create this heavy hot ambience, that weights on every page. It has this roughness, brutish and again weight, that fits jason really well and the action scenes feel more intese and unpredicable because of it. It feels like not only it has a good idea o f atonomy, but also of weight distribution. The visual depiction of the mood of the characters with colors and position is very very nice. the place feel hot, but also frozen in its hotness and dryness. A minor complain would be some page compositon and paneling decision, which ended up maybe a little bit confusing or just were not at the height of some of the others, bacause of which some moments felt blander. As for the writing, i see a lot of people disliking how jason was written and helena also for that matter. I agree in the sense, that honestly, if we exclude the visuals, both of them do not really show much of a character in the way they speak or think. It could be made the case that it fits the atmosphere of the surronding and the mood, but where the mood of the surrondings feels opressed in heat and almost sureal in its proto rinascimento alla commedia divina glory, the words do not feel as stilled. This is an issue for both the dialogue and the naration, both lack this sense of not only urgency, but realistic intesity. The plot also fails to grab me too much. I like some of the things that it leaves open, but for some of the other stuff i feel like it rushes and at the same time, does not manage to provide a good enough hook for the next issues. I would have loved to see a more interesting approach to the whole thing, to exploring jason's situation or even developing the current plot, because now both look like half measures and the development we got do not interest me much. I honestly with the recent news do not know if this would be the last issue of the series. i could see the other issue being better, i could see how it is maybe planned to be better but as i said i truly don't know. I dont know if what Dc decided to do is right or wrong. As a non american is not truly my place to think anything about it, but a person who liked watching debates, i personally did not respect Charlie Kirk, not even because i do not agree with him,there are plenty of people i do not agree with but i do respect, but because of the tactics he used in those debates,the attitude he had in them, the missinformation he spread and the way he presented mostly the debates he felt confident in ''winning''. more

Ginger

Sep 12, 2025

I expected something better from this book. Red Hood definitely doesn't feel like the Hood we know. He lacks wit and wit, and he seems like a guy going through his third divorce. I haven't read much about the Huntress. except for the Hood, The art is decent. I didn't like the panels much; sometimes they seem confusing given in the little action they gave us. I felt it was too weak for a starter. Personally, I don't like the pairing with Helena; that that of beating the atole of his almost brotheris a bit disgusting for my taste. In conclusion, the main character doesn't feel like himself. It wasn't as brutal as they promised, and the start was boring considering what they promised, but it was much better than what they did with Hill. In sh ort, for the price I got it, it seemed expensive compared to its quality. I read that the series is being canceled. I hope they find a good writer who knows the character and pick up the Hood series again. I'm not talking about continuing this. Maybe the next issues would have been better, or not. And I'm not interested in these people's controversies or dirty laundry. I just want a good read accompanied by good art. more

super_rex

Sep 10, 2025

THe only redeeming quality of this issue is its art. The writer does not know anything about Red Hood, or Huntress. It boggles my mind me why he was hired by DC.

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orbisstelassis - Sep 11, 2025

Fuck you, buddy.

super_rex - Sep 15, 2025

Fuck yo mama. Bitch

Lions

Sep 14, 2025

No me gusto, Jason parece ser un emo depresivo y machista de 40 años, la historia fue aburrida. Cero conexión con el sarcástico Jason, no hay ingenio, ni estrategia en este personaje que logró poner en jaque a Batman. Es como si no supiera nada del personaje que va a escribir. De no ser por el escandalo esto no se estaría vendiendo como pan caliente yo ya compre 2 números de diferentes portadas. Lo genial es que la ganancia se lo quedara la tienda, ni DC (eso espero), ni el escritor vera frutos de esto. Ya algunas portadas han lledo a subir de un día a otro. Me pregunto si esto no fue planeado, o auto boicot del escritor. Porque se debe ser muy imbécil para escribir comentarios de odio en una nueva administración que no esta so breprotegiendote solo por ser o fingir ser minoría como fue la izquierda de Baiden. En fin crucemos los dedos y esperemos unos años para venderlos more

Aesopjer

Sep 18, 2025

Let’s be real, this book is getting recognition for really only one reason. Truthfully in it of itself, it wasn’t good.

Tempra16v2.0Turbo

Sep 10, 2025

DC is obligated to cancel this comic.

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orbisstelassis - Sep 11, 2025

Go fuck yourself, coward

KT - Sep 12, 2025

orbisstelassis- Is that you, Gretchen?

Chris Y

Sep 11, 2025

I almost bought this book - the art looks absolutely amazing after all - but after the latest developments concerning its author, I'm glad I didn't. I'm sorry that other people at DC have to suffer now because of him.

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orbisstelassis - Sep 11, 2025

Fuck all the way off.

Chris Y - Sep 11, 2025

You can always count on the woke brigade to say something kind and inclusive. 😂

ComicsGild - Sep 11, 2025

An example that is part of the problem

Chris Y - Sep 12, 2025

Indeed

bkart1978 - Sep 13, 2025

Crying about other people not being kind and inclusive AFTER you intentionally misgender someone; if you can't see the hypocrisy then you're... well, like every other MAGA

Chris Y - Sep 14, 2025

LOL. Kind of expected a ridiculous comment like this. I'm not MAGA. I'm not even American.

Lions - Sep 14, 2025

This is selling like hotcakes due to the controversy, and some covers have already gone up in price. If it's true, this profit will only go to stores; that is, this wasn't planned from the beginning. Maybe everyone is arguing about something the writer or DC didn't see a future in due to poor writing and wanted to do the same thing as the supergay: stir up controversy to boost sales of their only issue. Either the writer didn't want to continue with the issues and self-sabotaged to screw the com

Chris Y - Sep 14, 2025

You can stir up some harmless controversy with stuff that's much less divisive. And in that case, you probably wouldn't cancel the book. If the book is really selling because of this debacle... well, that's really fucked up.

Lions - Sep 14, 2025

You're right. Someone with half a brain can generate harmless controversy. Then all that's left to think is that this person needs professional help. Unfortunately, morbid curiosity sells. For my part, I think RH fans ultimately won, since the comic's narrative quality is poor.

ComicsGild

Sep 11, 2025

Art is ok, story is ok, nothing special but you can't support this series. The end.

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orbisstelassis - Sep 11, 2025

Fuck off coward

ComicsGild - Sep 11, 2025

The joker himself, haha

Howard

Sep 11, 2025

A horrible writer.A demonic human being.She was fired and deserved it.

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KT - Sep 12, 2025

*He did, yes.

Hex - Sep 12, 2025

How do you plan on curing the "sickness" of trans people? Genuinely curious. And if NOBODY in America wants anything to do with them, where do they get their support? The ratio of trans to cis gendered individuals is around less than 1%. Good on you for at least using her proper pronouns. Way to be an ally.

Howard - Sep 23, 2025 (edited)

I suggest to get them mental help.Not to mention how violent the LGBT have become.The USA only recognizes 2 genders.Not 100.It is ridiculous I have to explain this.

Hex - Oct 13, 2025

Transgenderism isn't a disease or a mental deficiency though. And while I don't agree that the LBGTQ+ community is ramping up violence, it is a logical response to the constant mistreatment and violence brought upon them. The USA does NOT only recognize two genders. Read a biology text book. Intersex people have existed forever. They are recognized. There are more than 2 genders. There pretty much always has been.

Hex - Oct 13, 2025

I also love how you edited your comment and your grammar and punctuation is still a mess.