insanity. Months later, on Christmas Eve, Gilda is packing boxes to leave Gotham but takes one box to her furnace, containing a pistol, a hat, and what appears to be her husband's clothing. As she burns the items, she thinks about how she took it upon herself to start the Holiday killings to try to end Falcone's hold on Gotham and reduce her husband's workload so that they would have time together. She has the wild suspicion that Alberto was lying, instead choosing to believe that Dent himself had taken up the killings on New Year's Eve and that the two were finally working together by sharing secrets. Nevertheless, she is content with Alberto as their scapegoat, knowing the authorities are incapable of finding the other Holiday killer without Dent on their side and states that she still believes her husband can be cured. Collected editions The entire series has been collected in trade paperbacks, a hardcover, an absolute edition, a noir edition, and a deluxe edition: Trade paperback (), DC Comics, 1998. Hardcover (), DC Comics, 1999. Trade paperback (), Titan Books, 1999. Absolute Edition, hardcover (), DC Comics, 2007. New trade paperback (), DC Comics, 2011. Noir Edition, hardcover (), DC Comics, 2014. Deluxe Edition, hardcover (), DC Comics, 2021. The Batman Box Set () was released in March 2022, collecting trade paperbacks of The Long Halloween, Year One, and Ego and Other Tails in a slipcase with art by Jim Lee. Director Matt Reeves cited the three graphic novels as the major influences for The Batman. Critical reaction Batman: The Long Halloween has received widespread critical acclaim and is praised as one of the definitive Batman stories to date due to Jeph Loeb's involving storyline and Tim Sale's dark, moody art. Hilary Goldstein of IGN Comics praised Loeb's story as "tight, engrossing, and intelligent writing that never betrays the characters", adding that he "mixes Batman and Bruce Wayne's lives as well as anyone has, and brilliantly demonstrates the bond of brotherhood shared by Batman, Jim Gordon and then District Attorney Harvey Dent." Goldstein later ranked The Long Halloween #4 on a list of the 25 best Batman graphic novels. Yannick Belzil of The 11th Hour said that "Jeph Loeb has crafted a story that is unique to the characters. It's a complex murder mystery, but it's also a Batman story." Belzil added: "Buoyed by a film noir-ish