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The decision, during Infinite Crisis and 52, to take two of DC's best nonsuperhuman characters, Gotham cops Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen, and transform them into superheroes of sorts is one I have sort of a mixed reaction to. I did really like the Question coaching Renee to move beyond her anger and eventually step into her place, and I felt that Allen as the Spectre had some potential as well. Revelations brings back both characters, along with Kate Kane as Batwoman (also introduced in 52), showing what they get up to involving the Crime Bible during the Final Crisis. What the story does is confirm that really, these characters should have stayed as they were in Gotham Central. Rucka and Tan do their best, but this is generic comic-mystical gubbins; Montoya and Allen were much better served as ordinary cops navigating an extraordinary world than they are being extraordinary characters. There are flashes of interest in Revelations, but much of it seems to be Rucka doing damage control (Allen's son was killed in a previous Spectre series not written by Rucka, and Rucka brings him back here), and too much of it focuses on the potentially-interesting-but-usually-not Religion of Crime.

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Many of DC's superheroes are pulled into this storyline of a war between good and evil, fought between the spirit of the first murderer, Cain, and God's spirits of vengeance and mercy. Two of the major players in this book are police detectives from the Gotham Central storyline who now have superpowers. I found that unfortunate, since one of the reasons I really liked the Gotham Central storyline was that it focused on the heroic actions of people who didn't run around in tights or masks. That being said, this book was entertaining, although I wouldn't recommend it to deeply religious people who might take offense to the real liberties the writers have taken with Biblical and Apocryphal scripture. ( )