Red Hood: Outlaw #27

The fight scenes are insane. The way you can track the movements and the power behind each punch and kick is almost visceral and that's not even getting into how each person is distinctive, even background characters. Read Full Review

Red Hood: Outlaw #27 is a masterpiece of a comic. Visually beautiful and narratively engaging, it goes far beyond simply telling a story of loss, grief, and moving forward. It makes you feel it in your very bones taking on the subjects of trauma and loss in a way that his respectful, honest, and utterly unpretentious. Read Full Review

Overall, this was a good issue and a huge step up from last months first outing with Red Hoods revamp. Hopefully, the creative team shows us an intriguing new villain to go with the great character development showcased in this issue. My outlook on the title is certainly more positive so I can only look forward to what is to come. Read Full Review

With the emotional weight of what had happened, Jason can go on investigating the criminal underworld. It takes a character driven vision like this to really bring that kind of news home and remind us that masked heroes are people, and people can feel remarkable loss. Read Full Review

With the emotional weight of what has happened, Jason can go on investigating the criminal underworld. It takes a character driven vision like this to really bring that kind of news home and remind us that masked heroes are people, and can feel deep loss just like we do. Read Full Review

It's an emotional scene that Lobdell handles beautifully. Everything feels honest and real. It hit me right in the heart strings and I admired how well this was handled. Bruce then leaves and the power of the scene resonates as he does.Lobdell then sets up the next story and it's interesting as well. I'm excited to see where he takes us next. The art by Woods is especially nice and excellent. This is another solid issue in an amazing run. Read Full Review

All in all, it was a really great issue. Art was good but Jason doesn't look like Jason. It was a great tie in to what's going on with the rest of the universe. It was really heartfelt, give my dude Jason a break! I hope things get easier for him. Read Full Review

It's a good story, the centerpiece being the reunion between Jason and Bruce. I was pleased that Lodbdell recognized the value of Bruce in the situation, rather than go for low hanging fruit by touting a Batman guest appearance to boost sales. Read Full Review

This series isn't usually one for me, but as long as the creative team keeps swinging for the fences, this is an era of Red Hood you shouldn't miss. Read Full Review

Sad too that Roy Harper has died, and Jason is almost okay with it, telling Bruce that his best friend Roy wouldn't want him mourning him. This despite only a few issues prior we had Red Hood shooting a person in the face over the supposed death of his father. Has he learned the lesson of being humble so quickly? I really like Scott Lobdell's writing, I really do, but seeing how damaged Jason Todd still is despite his repeated attempts to right wrongs every issue gives the comic a whole new depth and scope to consider. Cookie cutter comic, this ain't! Read Full Review

AWESOME cover. One of my favorite Red Hood covers. Good stuff from Pete Woods. Read Full Review

Jason Todd has grown so much and even though it feels like he's reverted back to a previous form lately, this issue really shows how much he's progressed in the last decade and makes me really love the character more than I thought I could.  With that though, there isn't much to this issue, which is a shame because it spent so much time doing so little, while not giving us the parts that really packed a punch..... and really, that may be the point of the issue in dealing with Roy's death, but like most things in life, I could have dealt with a little more here. Read Full Review

The Underlife plot plays second fiddle this issue, but it makes space for a touching exchange between Jason and Bruce that is well worth the diversion. Woods aptly tells the story visually, and Lobdell does a good job of keeping the larger plot warm with some bookends. It isn't as compelling a read as the last issue, but it's still very solid work. Read Full Review

All in all the new shift to a solo Red Hood who is taking the law into his own hands is an exciting return to form for the character, and this story has some potential as evidenced by this issues last act. Unfortunately the reader needs to get through some filler to get there. Read Full Review

Aesthetics are on full blast, the variant cover by Yasmine Putri is a thing of beauty, mind you there's a bloody crowbar in it and it's still gorgeous! Pete Woods keeps the gritty, crime novel feel Red Hood deserves throughout the issue. While it doesn't grasp some of the more emotional tones, there are a few panels that bring the depth to surface. The potential for a great run is brewing with Red Hood: Outlaw #27. Read Full Review

Aesthetics are on full blast, the variant cover by Yasmine Putri is a thing of beauty, mind you there's a bloody crowbar in it and it's still gorgeous! Pete Woods keeps the gritty, crime novel feel Red Hood deserves throughout the issue. While it doesn't grasp some of the more emotional tones, there are a few panels that bring the depth to surface. The potential for a great run is brewing with Red Hood: Outlaw #27. Read Full Review

The second issue this week tying in with Heroes in Crisis, this second issue of the new direction is definitely a step up from last issue's Punisher-lite comic. It's still not a very good comic, owing to some seriously wonky characterization from everyone involved. It's okay to not nail every bit of continuity " but actively contradicting your own comic from months ago, less so. Read Full Review

Red Hood Outlaw #27 cannot get out of its own way. It works when the focus is on the back and forth between Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne but the emotional resonance it attempts to establish falls flat. Read Full Review

The first 11 pages of Red Hood: Outlaw #27 are great- wonderfully drawn and masterfully scripted. The remaining 11 pages are filled with infuriating, completely out of character decisions that completely botches the impact of Roy Harper's death. Read Full Review

daddyT

Oct 12, 2018

I've never known Roy enough to be a fan or not, but his relationship with Jason has been made clear. with "losing" Artemis and Bizarro lately, not to mention Batman... he's really getting hit HARD. and the scene with Bruce was great. from a base of 6, this gets a rating of: 11. +5 because: Jason has lost so much lately... and the reunion with Bruce was well done.

MKW69

Oct 10, 2018

If there are any pluses to HiC is that other comics, get better with it.

waltgator93

Oct 10, 2018

Truly a great issue! With great art, great story, and great dialogue! I was curious to see what was going to happen when Bruce showed up, completely forgot that he might go there to tell Jason about Roy's death. Though wish we knew how he knew. I will admit, it did bring a smile to my face from the Jason and Bruce part of the book.

Talon1load

Oct 10, 2018

Another great issue. This is the best Bat related book out.

Simon DelMonte

Oct 11, 2018

For the record, I am not interested in Tom King's PTSD Comics and think that character deaths are gratuitous. So I am impressed that Lodbell managed to make some lemonade from that lemon, addressing both Heroes in Crisis and the lingering threads in here well. I like that Bruce and Jason were able to make peace again, even if I think that Bruce will never trust Jason again. But I hope next time out, we can just focus on what seems to be a really good storyline.

Psycamorean

Oct 13, 2018

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Mostly because of the stuff with Bruce. In fact, almost entirely because of the stuff with Bruce. The rest was... fine. There's more random violence which can only go so far and Jason's reaction to Roy's death leaves something to be desired. I know the character was really being shafted as of late (even in death since he died next to a way more popular character) but at least make it seem like characters are taking it seriously. And the ending reminded me of Pleasant Hill, so I'm hoping what comes next isn't just a lesser version of Avengers: Standoff.

W_himself

Oct 14, 2018

The weakest issue in a long run of great issues: It just didn't have a story.

Onomatopoeia

Oct 10, 2018

This felt like an obligation to the Heroes in Crisis story line. It was clear that Scott Lobdell wanted to get through this issue as fast as possible in order to get back to his story. Roy Harper's death should have been a critical moment in Jason's life, but instead it was nothing more than a voice message. Death doesn't have to be the cliche'it is in comics, but this issue was a bigger let down than a funeral for Jean Grey.

Spacey Medicine

Jun 02, 2019

I continue to not really care about this comic. This man can’t kill a person with a point blank shot to the head? Get your shit together, bro.

SloboSOY

Oct 12, 2018

What a joke. The previous one was so good, that make me more disappointed. The right stuff is Bruce going to telling Jason what happen to Roy. But Bruce is without is sweet. So why Jason think right away of a fight. Does Bruce even care someone will see him in there ? Yeah It's a nice talk but not really what I expect of Jason. Is best friend is murdered & he accept to been on the bench ? Ok I understand is way of accepting Roy death... In his point of view it's a Step. Like Bruce, Damian, him & many more he will come back from that hopefully. But I don't want a writer telling "He it's alright he is going to pop up again at one point". I want emotive moment about the lost. Like when Widow go to the bugle writing some wrong about bucky. I want them to make us believe he can't stay dead and that's sad. In fact I'm mad that in comics Dead can stay dead long anymore. Some come back too quickly, the next death is even't not strong because we tell ourself "It's all right he will be back quickly". Damn writer & fan fuck up the comics in supporting that. Cover - I chose the variant. Nice but not related. 1/2 Writing - It was not good. 1.5/2 Arts - The layout & panels was good. A little just maybe. 2/3 Feeling - I will not take the next issue. 0/2 more

ohhaimark

Oct 14, 2018

THE GOOD: -This was another nice issue showcasing the ripple effect Heroes in Crisis is having on the overall DC Universe. -I liked the handling of Jason and Bruce's relationship in this issue. It was one of the best parts of the issue, if not the best. -I know I said I didn't like the art, but page 14 is a huge exception. A very well-done page, and the only one that captured the emotion needed to carry this issue. THE BAD: -Pete Woods' art could use a little work. It comes across way too cartoony and over exaggerated to work for this kind of story. -I wasn't a very big fan of the dialogue. Lobdell tries to use this street-level dialogue for anyone who is not Red Hood or Bruce and it comes across as more annoying than anything else. -I wish they could have given the issue more emotional depth. I actually found that last Red Hood annual more sad just because of how powerful it felt to reread the last few pages after Heroes in Crisis. This issue felt like a stiff and emotionless handling of the deaths in Heroes. -I have no idea what happened on the last page. It made no sense and was a really weird place to end the issue. more