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Mar 06, 2012Ubalstecha rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Batman goes through his version of Dicken's Christmas Carole, complete with Ghosts of Christmas Past, Bob Cratchet and a Tiny Tim. Of course there is also the redemption of Batman at the end. Let's be blunt. Almost everyone has adapted A Christmas Carole to one situation or another. Every TV show does this at some point, as do most ongoing literary series. The novelty in doing this is watching the writer adapt the classic tale to a new environs, in this case Batman's Gotham. Choices for the different characters will make you smile, others will elicit a cringe. There is no novelty in the storytelling, which is why this only gets 3 stars. A more novel adaptation, perhaps moving away from Christmas or drawing less blatant parallels would have made this book more original.