Summary: Batman and Robin struggle to break White Rabbit free from the clutches of Shush and the Terrible Trio.
Plot: Batman and Robin continues to be a satisfying superhero romp with lots of action and just enough endearing character moments to keep it interesting. I'm still not a fan of the name Shush(She-Hush) for the villain and Williamson's insistence on having Batman continue to harangue her about Tommy Elliot(the original Hush) feels off for a character who is not only the supposed world's greatest detective but also a character who has already seen villain mantles passed on to others with out a direct connection between them. That said, the manic, Saturday morning cartoon energy is fun and I love the use of the Terrible Trio and the inclusion of Manbat at the end makes perfect sense for a story playing on  Doctor Moreau. This isn't a story likely to go down as one of my favorite Batman runs of all time but it's a solid meat and potatoes superhero comic and sometimes that's good enough. 
Art: While De Mio's art is serviceable and tells the story clearly, his slick, angular style just does nothing for me and is easily the low point of the book in my eyes. It just comes across as too clean and mass produced to me, and it conveys zero mood or atmosphere which is an aspect that is not only important to any story is especially needed in a Batman book. Batman is just a "regular" guy in a costume and a lot of what makes him work is that he tries to sell it that he is actually more than just a regular guy and is actually a menacing creature of the night and visually you just can't do that if you don't play up the shadowy mood at least a little bit. To top it off he colors his own work and uses a really over-saturated filter which just gives the whole book an odd, unreal feeling that takes me out of it.
Grade:6/10  

Summary: A Sith Wizard's evil plans are thwarted by a young Jedi and her friends.
Plot/Art: I haven't been keeping up with most of the Star Wars comics as I hated the Droids event but I picked up the Peach Momoko Visions issue and it was pretty decent. And while I like a good wordless comic, especially when the art is as gorgeous as Peach's, and although the main thrust of the plot was easy enough to follow visually it didn't really hit home emotionally. Silent comics work well when you already know the characters so you already know their backgrounds and motivations and can easily read their emotions visually, or with non-human characters where you don't want to anthropomorphize them(Like Age or Reptiles) but with a more complex plot and completely new characters there was a distinct lack of tension. While I fully got that there was some Sith magic that was infecting people and that a Jedi and her friends defeated the Sith...I ultimately didn't care all that much because I had no idea who the young, presumably jedi, woman was or why I should care about her or her friends(was one of them a robot?) so there wasn't a real sense of danger because I had no connection to the heroes or understanding of what was really going on. There just isn't enough characterization that can be done purely visually, you get the broad strokes but there isn't any nuance so I really feel like this should have included dialogue and it would have read much better.

It looked gorgeous though, and I like the idea of just letting creators do what they want in the Galaxy Far, Far Away so I'm still a fan of the concept of Visions even if this one wasn't the best use of the concept.

Grade:6/10