Batman: One Bad Day: Mr. Freeze written by Gerry Duggan and art by Matteo Scalera
Robin has a Christmas present for Victor Fries, better known as the villain Mr. Freeze. When the dynamic duo take down Freeze, instead of carting him off to jail, they take him to a secret lab. Victor was a brilliant scientist who froze his wife when she contracted an incurable disease. He hoped to find a cure while she was "preserved." Robin convinced Batman to set up the lab so Freeze could work on the thawing process for his wife. Can Victor keep himself together and find what he really wants?
The story is okay. The plot is set up to show Victor's warped relationship to his wife. Victor has suffered a lot concerning his wife, as if he didn't have just "One Bad Day" but a bad lifetime. She is shown as the mentally-healthier member of the couple. She doesn't have enough influence on her husband to pull him back from going bad, which in his case is going selfish. The ending of this story is surprisingly upbeat and happy, not at all what I was expecting.
Mildly recommended.
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