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Bruce Wayne wakes up in Arkham Asylum. Young. Sane.
And...he was never Batman.
So begins this sprawling tale of the Dark Knight as he embarks on a quest through a devastated DC landscape featuring a massive cast of familiar faces from the DC Universe. As he tries to piece together the mystery of his past, he must unravel the cause of this terrible future and track down the unspeakable force that destroyed the world as he knew it...
From the powerhouse creative team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo, the team that reinvented Batman from the emotional depths of "Court of Owls" to the bombastic power of DARK NIGHTS: META more
It looks like the next issue is slated for a July release. Given the amount of effort obviously put into this issue that's almost a surprise we'll get #2 that quickly. If it's anything near this quality we might be looking at a strong contender for DC's best limited series of 2019. Read Full Review
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo do it again, with another Batman book for the ages! Read Full Review
A master class in tension that deftly leapfrogs between genres, it never lets up and its 56 pages both fly by and leave you enough to pore over until next month. Read Full Review
Weve only just begun to scratch the surface of this epic, and theres already so much to get excited about, and so much I didnt want to spoil in my review. Go buy it now and find out for yourself! Read Full Review
I don't know if this is the best Batman comic ever because this is the first issue, but I do know this series has the potential to be the best Batman comic in modern comic history. The entire creative team has created something special and horrifying in the best way possible. Batman: The Last Knight on Earth #1is a beautifully told Batman story that while dipping into familiar themes still manages to offer a unique look at the Caped Crusader. Read Full Review
VerdictBatman: Last Knight on Earth is a fascinating experiment, taking one of DC's flagship characters and putting him into a different kind of story that we're familiar with. There have been an extremely vast number of stories in which this has been done before, but Snyder has done so in a way that is fresh and intriguing. Read Full Review
Snyder again brings us an new adventure where he pushes the bat to his limits of sanity, meanwhile Capullo, who doesn't need more presentation, continues to affirm his myth as one of the best artist of Bats. Now both bring us this bizarre and post-apocalyptic world where Batman faces old enemies (and friends?) And there are many questions that will surely be resolved as this new arc develops, and finally we discovered what what happens when Batman is away for 5 minutes. Read Full Review
Comics mainly consist of the second act of a never-ending story. We've seen the beginning long ago and we rarely see an end. Batman: Last Knight on Earth feels like an end and it's an amazing one. With all that Bruce Wayne has been through, he deserves one epic sendoff and that's what this is. This is big, scary, and so very awesome. Plus, it's super accessible so anyone can jump in and enjoy, even if you only have a passing knowledge of Batman. Read Full Review
There is a revelation later in the issue that shows Batman where he really is. And it's something we have never seen before. Yes, it is the weird future we have seen in the advertisements. It also is much, much more than that.Snyder and Capullo just knock it out of the park, right out of the gate. This is the pair at their best. I'm sad it's only three issues, but I'm going to savor them while we have them. This is excellent. Read Full Review
Snyder and Capullo really do bring out the best in one another when they work together, and the lengthier page count helps as well. Read Full Review
This may be one of the best comics I have read. Ever. Thats not hyperbole. Rarely have I ever been so amazed at the perfect collaboration between writer, artist, inker and colorist. Every panel leaves you wanting more. There is literally nothing wrong with this book except for maybe the fact that certain scenes will make more sense if youve already read the new 52 Batman. Which you should have by now. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight on Earth then is a flat-out masterpiece that hits the ground running in the best way possible. Read Full Review
My expectations were high for this book, as they should be, and it didn't disappoint. I feel every Bat story this team has told has been something different. From the Court of Owls to Endgame, this team brings something different to the table every time. The Last Knight on Earth is a Bat story I have never seen before, and I can't wait to explore this world with Batman. Read Full Review
After the controversy of Batman: Damned, 'DC's Black Label imprint needed a hit. Thankfully, DC Comics MVPs Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo were here to provide one. Highly recommended. Read Full Review
I doubt that this will be the last Batman story ever told, but there's a great chance that it will go down as one of the best. Yet again, Scott Snyder has redefined the Dark Knight and has penned a story that possess the power to excite and unsettle bat-fans new and old. Read Full Review
I cant think of anyone else who could have brought this particular story to life visually other than Greg Capullo. From the character interactions to the action, the art perfectly captures the tone and epic scale of this story. Read Full Review
Overall, Batman: Last Knight on Earth is a fantastic addition to the DC Black Label lineup, taking its time to establish the characters and surroundings that make up this very different universe. If you've read Snyder's previous work on Batman, it does nothing but add to the mystery and mystique at play here, however, doesn't exclude you at the same time if you come in fresh here. This had to be the type of titles DC had in mind when the Black Label was thought of and I'm very happy to shout my recommendation for this title from the Gotham rooftops. Read Full Review
This series has the makings of a must-read for any DC Comics fan, not just Batman fans. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight on Earth is a complex narrative that transcends your standard Batman story. Buckle up for the gospel of Batman. Read Full Review
What more can I say? Run to your favorite LCS and buy this comic, already! It's wild, it's poetic, it has adventure and it has heart. This first issue immerses me in another world: an almost dreamlike, intangible world where nothing is as it seems. Issue #2 can't come out soon enough. Enthusiastically recommended! Read Full Review
Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion have masterfully tackled the artistic chores on this book. I think we can all agree that Greg and Scott on any project is a winning combination for sure. The style and detail they put into every panel from cover to cover wonderful to behold, just a thing of beauty. Read Full Review
To go into details and spoilers would ruin the book's impact and while I wouldn't want every Batman story to be like this, this is one book just about anyone could pick up and be engrossed by. Grab this one and get a glimpse of what the Black Label can offer DC's characters. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight On Earth #1 will give you goosebumps, and we could be on the cusp of a game-changing story that only comes along once a generation. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight on Earth #1 provides an engrossing look at the end of Batman's long journey. Read Full Review
His journey is the stuff of cinematic legend. He punches his hand through the sand so we can all be blessed with that iconic shot of him walking through the desert. His lone companion is the severed talking head of his greatest enemy. Speed Force storms threaten livelihoods on each given day. Former Justice League powers fall into the wrong hands. It's all so beautifully dark and awe inspiring. Read Full Review
Often, when the anticipation and build-up for a comic is so high, one can often be disappointed by the finished product. Not this time. This is one of those times where everyone can believe the hype. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight on Earth derives its strength from two major elements: the skilled craft of its creators, and the timely nature of its themes and ideas. And found beneath the fear and uncertainty that such an ending provides: Hope. Hope for new beginnings once the end has past. With what promises to be their final Dark Knight treatise, Snyder, Capullo, Glapion, Plascencia & Napolitano are offering a symbol for that hope, one that we should all aspire to emulate in our days ahead. Read Full Review
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo have really started something that feels unique and special withBatman: Last Knight on Earth. It's an interesting story that places Batman outside his element with the potential to examine why he's such a great character and one of the best heroes of the DC universe thanks to the themes on the nature of good vs. evil. The artwork from Capullo, Glapion and Plasencia is outstanding with its crazy visuals and focus on the characters. While it's a long wait for the next issue, Snyder, Capullo and company have made it well worth it with this introduction to their last Batman story for the foreseeable future. Read Full Review
I continue to say that the Snyder/Capullo Batman has set the standard extremely high for future creators to attempt to rival. I honestly thought that the villain in this "final" Batman story would be the Joker, but his disembodied head is in a jar being carried by the Dark Knight. And it's talking! Read Full Review
It's the beginning of the end for Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman run, and Last Knight on Earth is already shaping up to be one of THE books to read in 2019. Read Full Review
An exciting start, Batman: Last Knight On Earth sets the stage for what should be a brilliant future Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight on Earth #1 is a wild ride of a debut. I'll leave you wondering what is real and what's a hallucination. It'll also want you to immediately come back for more. Read Full Review
What more can be said? If youre a fan of Snyder and Capullo on Batman youll love this. If you like superheroes wandering post-apocalyptic wastelands, youll love this. If you really liked Old Man Logan, but wished it was about Batman, youll love this. Batman Last Knight on Earth is shaping up to be a fitting end to an epic Batman run. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight on Earth #1 is a good start to this three-part mini-series. If you like this creative team's run on Batman then there is nothing here you shouldn't enjoy. Snyder weaves an interesting new narrative for the Batman. And the series has a bit of a Head Lopper vibe (no spoilers, but look at the cover). The art team is, once again, fantastic. They catch the tone and feel of this series perfectly. A lot of times these “Elseworlds” stories are some of the best and it looks like this might be one of them. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight on Earth #1 is on its way to being Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Magnum Opus on the character of Batman. One where their history allows them to create an unexpected future that can deeply explore the fundamentals of who Batman is and how he got that way. It may take a few more steps than necessary to get there but once the story begins to take shape you get the sense you reading the early beginnings of something special. Read Full Review
Batman: Last Knight On Earth #1 was a comic rich in content. Splitting the issue up in different chapters made the world Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo crafted around Batman be fully realized. For how many answers we get about Batman's surroundings there are even more questions raised for what really is going on with this Earth. It all comes together for a fascinating continuation of Snyder and Capullo's Batman run. Read Full Review
Snyder, Capullo, and company have built an elaborate series opener that's promising and preposterous on many levels, but as the surreal narrative of "Last Knight on Earth" unspools, it's almost impossible not to trust their instincts with the character. Read Full Review
Snyder's script drags in some places, such as when Tank Girl Wonder Woman delivers a heavy exposition dump. Capullo's artwork looks good, apart from the unnaturally unpleasant Amethyst cave. Still, the premise and execution are interesting enough to make me curious about the next issue. Read Full Review
Batman: The Last Knight of Earth offers a good start on a compelling storyline. Read Full Review
There's potential here, but the prize of this story remains hidden for now. Read Full Review
How the hell does Scott Snyder come up with amazing ideas like this? Equally amazing art by Greg Capullo to back this up. I don't know if anything would stop someone from grabbing this one. Four part story and so much to comprehend.
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Awesome, looking like an amazing way to go off Batman for Snyder and capullo. Excited to see where it goes in the next 2 issues
What an issue man! Capullo and Snyder are fantastic together.
Crazy beginning Sad part is have to wait 3 months for part 2
If I could give a book an 11/10, I would give this a 14.
It's Capullo and Snyder guys.........it was destined to be amazing!!!
What a fantastic first book. The story is great so far and the art is fantastic. It sets up everything perfectly and is basically everything I liked about Snyder and Capullo's run and more. The highlight for me was the Joker, the way Snyder utilized him in this was such an awesome idea. There are still some parts where some things are still unclear to me but it adds to the mystery so I'm cool with that. I'm super excited to see where this is going and I can't wait for the next one.
This shit is bonkers.
Issue was great. So this is kinda like the "Logan" and ending of snyder's batman saga huh. This issue alone already tells me that I wont be disappointed to this conclusion of Snyders batman :)
Snyder writes hella good Joker dialogue.
I haven't had a regular review schedule in months and in that time my pull has decreased by about 80% due to series endings or cancellation. I don't really read Marvel and DC has pulled back on its comic publishing line significantly.
I have very few DC comics anymore on my pull anymore and what's left is mainly Batman related. I think I'm starting to feel Batman fatigue. Last Knight on Earth is possibly the best issue of Batman I've read this year. It's also written and illustrated by DC Darlings Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. The review is objective but I do believe that Batman is being overexposed by DC brass.
The only thing I knew about the title going in was that the story would have a horror bent and that Batman more
A very solid first issue! I always get excited about dystopian DC futures. How they draw Bruce Wayne and Wonder Woman could have been better and just glancing over Darkseid's death could have been a lot better. However, the pros far outweigh the cons.
Great start of the story. Snyder and Capullo are one of the greatest duos in the industry right now. However, knowing them, it could go downhill and become too complex, but so far it's been great.
Parts of this are a 10, parts are more like an 8. An important thing to know is this is in NO way a Batman/Joker buddy issue like it has been marketed.
The most enjoyable part was the Snyder/Capullo pairing is so immersive and it brought me back to the New 52 days, where you lose a sense of time just being drawn into their story. Pros: Utterly disorienting in the best way, loose connections at the start, and memorable visuals. Cons: Exposition, because Snyder usually goes that way at some point, and it didn't feel in Diana's voice at all.
I thought it was good and it’s super immersive, but I really couldn’t buy into Diana’s look and dialogue considering all we have grown used to in her character, and seriously why you gotta do Darkseid like that? In the back of my mind I was hoping Darkseid would be responsible for the current state of the world in this book but it turns out this “Omega” guy is apparently responsible and I’m sure even when he’s revealed I won’t accept that he could take out Darkseid lol.
The dynamic duo of Snyder and Capullo are back together and the result is totally nuts. It's about as out there as Metal was but more interesting and better structured.
It looks promising. I liked it; this Bruce Wayne seems much more caring and light-hearted than the usual Bruce Wayne throughout decades and he is starting to grow on me, but there are some things that I didn't understand like what was the purpose of those baby GLs? they've felt out of the place. Wonder Woman becoming an apocalyptic-punk leader with a mohawk doesn't suit her. The way they disgraced Darkseid was stupid, so he got his head chopped off by a punk named Omega? there were better ways to prove he's a lethal threat that needs to be reckoned with; they mentioned he was an associate to the original Bruce Wayne so I hope it's either a pissed off Damian or a sensible Jason whom we can understand his doings and relate to him instead of S more
Why was Snyder taken off Batman and replaced with Tom Trash? This book was amazing.
It's been a while since we've got a chance o see Joker... you know, joking, being funny and somewhat charming, even though he's just a head in a jar. I sure like the artistic direction in this comic - it's a twisted version of DC universe, post-apocalyptic, but not cliche. I have a feeling that I want to explore its wastelands, learn more about what happened to them, and what happened to characters we know and love. Last time I've felt something similar was when I first heard of Old Man Logan, before it was turned into a gimmicky soap opera. There's so much to be discovered, because even if we didn't see much of the world yet, there's so many promises hidden in between the lines - and I sure hope Snyder will fulfill them. One of my main cri more
This was good. I don't really know what's going on. Although, I would say that the current setting is probably my least favorite part of this so far. The beginning with Batman in Gotham was great, as was the Asylum, but then things dipped a little with this post apocalyptic wasteland. Got major Kelly Thompson's Captain Marvel vibes from the New Amazons. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because the setting of that story was its biggest problem. But I'm hopeful that this turns more into an Old Man Logan, if we're doing this. The first two settings were so great and I was fully on board, so I can't help but be a little disappointed that we're getting something else instead.
Art is great. But the characterization feels off. Snyder seems to always pull these long winded speeches from characters when it isn't necessary
Good issue, but some ideas / characterizations seem weird like why such a bad hairstyle for WW or I don’t really buy Ivy helping them. Or what’s the point of big baby GL? And what I also didn’t like is the treatment of Darkseid once again, whom we see beheaded just to make the newest villain Omega ( who might be one of the batfamily- hopefully Jason not Damien) look cool. At least Snyder gave some credit to the anti life equation, but still it’s another chapter of many, that mishandle Darkseid. Don’t know, why DC butchers his character like that. Was Didio such a big fan of Dan Turpin so that he hates Darkseid so much or what’s the point?
What’s also sad, that the part in the Asylum, where Bruce thinks he’s crazy is de more
Welcome back Mr. Capullo!
Disappointing.
Alfred's decision to try and make the Bruce Wayne clone believe that he killed his own parents is just nonsensical, and even more so is how easily the Bruce Wayne clone forgives him for this. So begins a trail of half thought out ideas and in some places shoddy graphic storytelling, e.g. the double page spread where Wonder Woman gives us an info dump. I liked everything up to the point where the real Batman was shot, but after that it all becomes a bit of a mess. Hopefully the next issue will restore some interest, with a more meaningful role for the Joker.
I’m sorry, but your idea of the perfect way to convince Bruce Wayne to chill out and live a normal life is to tell him he murdered his parents? I feel like my questions weren’t answered at all by the first two parts, and then I was dumped into yet another boring post-apocalypse where everybody has mohawks and face paint and impractical torn up outfits because we all saw Mad Max once and none of us has been able to come up with anything more creative than that.
THE GOOD:
-This could be some of the best art Greg Capullo's ever put out.
-I thought that the beginning was really good. I especially liked the chalk outline part. That was really interesting.
-I thought the story was fairly interesting here. Especially the background for this universe.
THE BAD:
-I'll be honest. The Joker was my least favorite part here. Maybe it will happen later, but so far the promise of "exploring the relationship between Batman and the Joker" has yet to happen. For now, he's just being kind of annoying.
-The Green Lantern babies were just too stupid to take seriously.
-On second thought, the asylum parts were kinda stupid and unrealistic more
Well, it's a surprise to nobody that the newest Snyder/Capullo Batman story is pretentious and sweeping up praise.
The post-apocalyptic story is a ripoff of Old Man Logan, the creative team's earlier work on Dark Knights Metal, and even Morrison's Final Crisis (the nihilism and all that).
It has an irritating fake-out beginning that doesn't fit Alfred's character in the slightest (but even if it did, it's still a grating fake-out) and Joker is underwhelming. I thought the whole point of this series was to have a unique spin on Batman and the Joker's dynamic, but all Snyder does with it is tell cringe-worthy attempts at mature jokes. This is a big boy comic! Wonder Woman says "shit!" Oh, the horror!
It's not really a 1 but I can't understand why Snyder is so beloved. Batman, the unstoppable force of nature that will be back with all the knowledge of every reincarnation, just want to make a road movie with Joker's head. Later you can't hold a nightmares in the main Batman's collection.
I need to think about this
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