First before I say anything about the plot, writing, or the characters
I have to say, man I missed reading a book drawn by Jason Fabok, his art
is easily one of the best parts about the book. Cool now that that is
out of the way, I gotta say I am very confused where this book fits in
with DC's current timeline. Alfred is here and very much alive which
means whatever happens in this series has already happened and is fresh
in Bruce's mind during the current Joker War story arc in the main
Batman title? I will say if it weren't for the fact that Geoff Johns has
written Jason Todd here better than anyone else has since the start of
the New52, the possible continuity errors would ruin this book for me,
but it doesn't because, man Jason Todd/Red Hood is just so well written
in this issue. The fun part about this book is that it's just as much a
Red Hood, and Batgirl story as it is a Batman story, which is great
because most writers always focus on Batman and Joker's relationship and
we romanticize that, and sometimes forget that the Joker has impacted
more than just Bruce's life in a major way. Nitpicky timeline issues
aside, this book feels like the event book it was promoted as, and I am
very interested to see where the story goes.