New 52 Review: Red Hood and the Outlaws #1

September 23, 2011

We all knew going in that Red Hood and the Outlaws was probably going to suck. It promised to really screw with established characters (some of whom had been utterly destroyed by recent awful continuity anyway, like Roy Harper, the former Speedy/Arsenal) and be one of the more painful shreddings of DC’s past to occur in the New 52. That was made clear from…

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Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast. Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

As far as reviews go, he believes the main point of being a critic is not to pass yourself off as the final arbiter of quality passing holy judgment on a work of art, but rather just to share opinions so that the reader can decide whether or not the critic is someone whose tastes generally align with theirs. If so, that reviewer is one whose work you can trust if you're curious about a particular title. If not, cue loud, angry internet vitriol.