Cale's Reviews > Batman: The Dark Knight, Volume 4: Clay

(Read as Single Issues)
This is a very different Clayface (made all the more obvious if you've read the Monsters Unleashed Clayface issue that happened in the midst of the story and presents a much less intelligent version of the character). Clayface here is an unstoppable force and utter escape artist. Batman is somehow thrown off by this, which is a little weird. The art is dark and grim (the coloring especially), and the back story is a little weak. Not much action takes place.
The collection also includes Voiceless, a 'timely' issue about slave labor in Christmas toy factories that is notable only by its lack of text (and minimal presence of Batman). It's decent, but its attempt at topicality ends up overwhelming its story.
The final two issues offer up a variation of ManBat that was pretty stupid. The new ManBat is a corporate raider and relative of Langstrom who murders homeless because 'nobody will miss them.' It's another political story that doesn't meet the mark of quality.
So all told, you've got three different stories here, none of which are wonderful, and one of which is actually pretty bad. The art is consistently good throughout, but unless you're trying to keep up with every Batman story, it's not something worth picking up.