Punchline: The Gotham Game #3

Punchline: The Gotham Game

by Tini Howard, Blake M. Howard, Gleb Melnikov (Penciller)

PUBLIC ENEMY number one! Punchline crossed a dangerous line at ACE Chemicals, and crossed Batman in the process. Now every masked vigilante and officer of the law is after Punchline, but this is exactly what she wants. What’s the point of being a public enemy if you’re not going to be public enemy number one? But the scariest person in the Gotham world isn’t the Bat…it’s the Cat. Catwoman will hunt Punchline and make her pay.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics

28 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 27, 2022

Reviews

[Nicholas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been thoroughly enjoying "Punchline: The Gotham Game." I think the first three issues were fairly solid - the writing perfectly captures Punchline as a Gen Z supervillain trying to make a name for herself, the artwork is beautiful, and the ambiguity of her actual plans make me eagerly await for the next issues. However, I should have realized there was a Catwoman tie-in when I saw them fighting on the cover of a new Catwoman comic. I think if this was mentioned in "Gotham Game" #2, it would have been more clear to readers. It is easy to go back and read what happens to fill in some missing events from #2 and #3.

[Marius · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lost

I enjoyed the fun but I also feel lost. Reading Catwoman #50 seems to be important to understand this issue. I didn't do that sooo...a lot seems to go above my head. Still funny with the talking corpse and the art is entertaining on its own. 3/5

[Cody · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was kind of digging issues one and two. But three and four, not so much. I'm not totally sure I'll bother with issues five and six.

I might for completeness sake, but these two really fall off hard. You come in to issue three felling like you've missed some major events, because you have unless you read Catwoman issue 50. It's bad enough having unrelated tie ins with major events, but this isn't that, this is a mini series. And while I was kind of into Blue Bird in Trial of Alexis Kaye, here she's a lot less cool. I was ok with some gay romance subplot lines for Cullen (BB's little brother) but now Tini Howard is starting to push it with some feminist garbage as well.

Book four leave off on a bit of a cliff hanger, and I'm kind of curious what it is. I can tell you, something is about to happen, but I don't know what, and I can't tell you why without spoilers. Wanting to know that, and with mini series that are easy to collect, I'd like to get the whole thing. On the other hand, I don't want to reward propagandizing and that's what his is starting to devolve into.

Here is a tip Howard, gangsters and killers are not bad people because they are sexist, they are bad people because they are bad. In another era, from another writer I could accept the sexism as a ploy, as characters trying to manipulate and play off other characters. But here and now with this writer, it's feeling less like evil characters being clever and the writer thinking about going into a full on scree and starting to lecture me.

[Craig Schorling · Rating 3 out of 5]

I get that tie ins are par for the course in the world of comics but this issue doesn't even attempt to help the reader make sense of the story if you haven't read Catwoman #50. I felt a bit lost as a result. The chaos and art is still decent and the character is fun.

[Annemarie · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5 stars

The art is really great in this issue, but the story itself is a bit.. meh. I didn't read the catwoman issue mentioned so I missed quite a bit of context, which definitely didn't help.

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was fine, but felt like a drop from the first two. It's times like this i really wish goodreads had half stars as I'd really like to put this at 2.5 stars