The Panopticon has been created to free the city from the biggest scum it can find. However, once that being starts getting out of control, Oliver will have no choice but confront it himself.
God, this felt like a slap to the face.
... No, scratch that. This felt like a huge hammer to the head, a kick in the nuts and a spit to the face while the one culprit starts saying all the things he just did to you.
And that person is the writer.
Ben Percy arrives with yet another chapter where while the dialogue is not as heavyhanded as in the previous issue, the themes and ideas he's using certainly are. The Robocop inspired robot that he uses is such a cliche idea that at this point you already know that is going to turn to be evil.
Speaking of evil, the villains are so transparent in their malicious ways that they almost seem like cartoons. The evil guy who builds a robot to "protect" the city while it's revealed at the end that he just wants power over the people, the racist overly WHITE man who throws bleach to black people before killing them, etc. Seriously, how did these guys managed to get so far without anyone saying: "Hey you know, there's something I don't like about this dude".
Oh and the social commentary, is so subtle that you may not notice it.
To be fair though, some of the themes are interesting and understandable but the execution is so blunt and forced that it takes you out of the story. Still, there's a lot to like.
And the things to like are mostly because of the art. Patrick Zircher delivers a quite strong work in terms of storytelling and character expressions, he almost sells you the story presentation-wise until you realize how dumb such plot is.
I wouldn't recommend you to read this issue really, I think even the Green Latern/Green Arrow series did a more subtle work in the 70's.
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