{"id":49,"date":"2007-03-10T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T09:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:19:01","slug":"batman-under-the-hood-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/10\/batman-under-the-hood-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Under the Hood, Vol 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bmuth.jpg\" title=\"Batman: Under the Hood, Vol 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bmuth.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: Under the Hood, Vol 2\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Judd Winick<\/strong> &amp; various<\/p>\n<p>(DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-277-0<\/p>\n<p>The tale continues (as originally printed in <strong>Batman<\/strong> #645-650 and <strong>Batman Annual<\/strong> #25) and, no matter how I pitch it, forces me to contravene my self-imposed rule of not spoiling any surprise plot twists.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Hood seems to be the adult version of Batman&#8217;s dead partner Jason Todd, who was the second Robin before being murdered by the Joker. What is his agenda? Is he just carrying as before his demise \u00e2\u20ac\u201c albeit in a pretty harsh manner, or does he have a deeper game to play?<\/p>\n<p>Despite the intrinsic silliness of the plot and the crushing, chronic comic book inability to let any character go, this still delivers plenty of angst-y action, melodrama and pathos. If you can suspend your narrative disbelief and just go with it, there&#8217;s guilty fun to be had here, especially if you think of this stuff as soap-opera, not literature. For that we&#8217;ve got Shakespeare and Stan Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Judd Winick &amp; various (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-277-0 The tale continues (as originally printed in Batman #645-650 and Batman Annual #25) and, no matter how I pitch it, forces me to contravene my self-imposed rule of not spoiling any surprise plot twists. The Red Hood seems to be the adult version of Batman&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/10\/batman-under-the-hood-vol-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman: Under the Hood, Vol 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-crime-comics","category-dc-superhero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33498,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/33498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}