Stars: 5
Review by: Mandy Apgar
When members of the Falcone crime family get bumped off in various gloriously gory ways, Gotham detective James Gordon is forced to make an alliance with the new DA, Harvey Dent, and the Batman in an attempt to stop the murderer - dubbed "Holiday" by the press due to the acts being committed during times of celebration. Concerned that they cannot take the law far enough to stop someone so ruthless, Dent and Gordon give Batman privileged information so that he can be the muscle of the group and wallop info out of those he meets. Which is a problem, as he is already pretty busy handling the Joker - who, jealous of Holiday's press, is determined to re-establish himself as Gotham's top psycho. Consulting with the villain Calendar Man and dealing with several others along the way, Batman has to manage the murders and the monster they create when Harvey Dent becomes mentally unhinged and turns into Two Face as a indirect result of the crimes. Although Batman doesn't discover technically who the real killer was, they are revealed at the end. A collection of the monthly series where each holiday has a related character central to the story - April Fool's deals with the Riddler, St. Patrick's with Poison Ivy, etc. One of the greatest modern Batman stories, featuring lots of lesser known villains and set in his early years, its success was a direct inspiration not only for Nolan's Dark Knight films (and he writes the introduction to this edition as well), but the series of Arkham video games.
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