With Xanadu and Jason Blood back in the fold, the Demon Knights set their sights on Themyscira and the horde of vampire warriors heading there. Shady behavior is on full display in this issue, and, in a sense, that's the problem.
Paul Cornell's run on the title was paved with an enthralling mix of duplicity and earnest heroics. The villain kept rotating, and every tug on one part of the Demon Knights spider web reverberated through the rest of the network. In contrast, Robert Venditti just plops the entire dramatic structure down at once. As seen in issue #18, the twists aren't given time to ripen before they're harvested. Instead, changes happen all at once, leaving large swaths of the book to unfold in dramatic valleys. As a result, the plotting seems very two-dimensional, especially by Demon Knights standards.
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