Red Hood: Outlaw #43

By the end of the book, a couple of familiar faces answer Ma Gunn's ad for help. And a villain appears ready to cause some trouble. For the most part, this is an exciting issue. Lobdell has done it again here. Williams is an excellent artist as well and I look forward to seeing more work from him. Well done. Read Full Review

I'm in love with the writing style of Scott Lobdell, he really has a way of making the characters jump off the page. I want to jump into the page, so that I can be an Outlaw! I'm very interested to see how Jason, Artemis and Bizarro get back to their old “normal” team dynamic and how that will affect everyone else that had a side role in Red Hood Outlaw #43, because I'm hooked! Read Full Review

Scott Lobdell is throwing everything he can at you this issue and while some books may suffer from dealing with too much, the pacing here came off pretty well and dealt with all of its pieces in an interesting manner...... even if some came off a little jokey for my liking.  Overall though, the art is fun, the story is fun and I can't wait to see what happens next. Read Full Review

This book continues to take place in its own strange continuity where any subplot from five years ago can be pulled up at random. Read Full Review

There's promise, but between the recent issues and the way Red Hood: Outlaw #43 went, it's hard to get your hopes up " even though Lobdell gives you reasons to be excited. Read Full Review

Despite its gorgeous coloring, this latest issue will leave fans feeling so-so thanks to its thin pacing, but any moment featuring Bizarro is nothing short of a treat. Read Full Review

With Jason and the crew on their way to Qurac, Ma Gunn trying to find suitable teachers for Generation: Outlaw and someone deliberately unleashing Jason specific threats onto the whole world, things look to be heating up. Let's hope next issue's artwork matches the quality of the writing. Read Full Review

Red Hood Outlaw #43 is the clear beginning of a new arc that focuses on the original dark Trinity, but it comes out stumbling. The covers are beautiful and the colors pop off the page, but I am just not sure where this is going. I am willing to give Lobdell a mulligan. This could really be the start of something amazing. He does like a good cliff hanger and these issues seem to be getting shorter and shorter, so he can only get in so much drama before he runs out of space. Read Full Review

Ultimately this issue was garbage. They barely explain at all what the new plot is going to be, and most of this is going to be explained better in the next issue. So just skip this one. Read Full Review

M1sf1r3

Mar 01, 2020

Prelude: RHatO has been very unstable where it comes to quality, let's see how Lobdell goes with it here. The Good: I do like the Outlaws interaction. The Bad: The art is pretty poor. Too boring. Quite frankly, I'm not interested. Conclusion: While the interaction between the team is cool, the rest fails on almost every level.

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln

May 07, 2020

I know comic artists are really hard workers, but this art is completely unacceptable and probably a sign this book isn't long for this world, which is probably a mercy at this point.

Yam09

Oct 20, 2020

This is just bad. I need to stop making myself suffer.