Red Hood and the Outlaws #15 Review and *SPOILERS*

Outlaws in the Belfry 

Written By: Scott Lobdell

Art By: Dexter Soy, Veronica Gandini, Taylor Esposito

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: October 11, 2017

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

Bizarro is smart as hell and looking to eliminate all crime in Gotham City and after seeing all the toys he made for Red Hood and Artemis in the previous issue, not to mention a floating, invisible base that has technology to revival even the God Tech of the Midnighter books, it looks like he might actually achieve his goals.  Only problem is, he seems to be reverting back to his former simpleton self and he isn't happy about it.  Not only that, it seems like there might be some darker schemes within this smarty pants that we're not even aware of yet.  Let's jump into this issue and see what happens when the Detective Squad of Detective Comics becomes aware of Bizarro's actions and what they'll do to shut the Outlaws down.  Let's check it out.

Explain It!:

Our issue begins with the Detective Squad being assembled......sans Batman because Batwing is concerned that there hasn't been any crime in Gotham for the past couple days and once they determine that it may have something to do with a invisible, floating fortress above the city, the book really begins because the Detective Squad seem to take it personally when Bizarro's computer defenses shut down Batwing's hologram and tells them that they don't have to be superheroes anymore because the job has been taken care of.  

Back at Outlaws HQ, Artemis still seems to be concerned with what Bizarro is doing, but all of that worry needs to be put on hold because for some reason, Bizarro allowed himself to be captured by the Detective Squad inside of their base and has been taken back to the Belfry for questioning, where they're keeping him in a device that was originally supposed to be able to contain Clayface, but has been tweaked in order to hold our Superman clone.  One techno magical door later, our Outlaws are inside the Belfry and looking to get their teammate out........... which obviously leads to a fight.

In the end, Artemis and Red Hood free Bizarro from his restraints, but the Detective Squad are able to get the upper hand on the Outlaws and knock all of them out.  It's weird though because throughout this issue, I never really got an idea of why everything was going on the way it was.

That's it for this issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws and while it was cool getting the Detective Squad as we call them into the issue, I'm not really sure of their motivations behind kidnapping Bizarro or what Bizarro's motivations for allowing himself to get kidnapped were.  I'm still into this story and all about finding out what's actually going on in Bizarro's mind and what he hopes to accomplish before reverting back to his former self because whatever it doesn't appear to be completely on the up and up, but while this issue looked great, it didn't do much to further my understanding of what's actually going on and really just led to a fight that I'm a little confused about why it went down.  All in all, this wasn't the greatest issue, but it looked great all the way through and gave us a smidge more to the mystery about what Bizarro is up to through his narration.

Bits and Pieces:

We get the Outlaws fighting some fellow heroes in this issue and while it all looks great, I found myself confused about why everything escalated to the point it did.  Overall, the issue looked great though and I'm still intrigued with this Smarty Pants Bizarro arc, but I'm going to start needed some more substance soon.

6.5/10