The whole book is like that: Completely awesome. Snyder is at the top of this game writing this and Capullo is right along side him. Both of these creators are doing the work of their careers. This is such a well developed story. I am sad it is only three issues, but I am happy that it's coming out. This is tops. Read Full Review

I don't want this story to end, but can't wait to read it anyway. Read Full Review

Last Knight on Earth #2 ups the ante and expands upon the debut issue. An intricately-woven and daringly-epic tale involving Batman and a DCU apocalypse, this book perfectly balances mystery and insanity, all while featuring top-tier artwork. Read Full Review

Snyder has given us a compelling story of how Batman continuing his fight against evil in a world that has completely and utterly gone to hell. Batman isn't just struggling against impossible odds here, but is carrying on long after having lost the war. Although this may not be a canon story, it gives us an important lesson about the unbreakable spirit of the Batman. Read Full Review

Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2 is a great issue of comics, and is the crown jewel of DCs meager offerings on this fifth week at the end of July. Highly recommended. Read Full Review

Last Knight, in it's own twisted way, is a really fun read and it's great to see Snyder and Capullo with the shackles off and weaving a strange new tale in the DC Universe. Read Full Review

Batman: Last Knight on Earth continues to be a bold new take on a classic character that embraces an important take when discussing the future of Batman stories. Read Full Review

Batman: Last Knight on Earth is a fascinating and exhilarating road trip through a broken and battered DC Universe. It simultaneously serves as a riveting standalone story as well as the culmination of the impressive run from Snyder and Capullo. Batman is forced to face his biggest failures, questioning his never-ending war on crime through a dark, horrific lens. Read Full Review

I'm head over heels for this series. The writer and artist combi here is legendary and for good reason. Adding this black label title to their files is nothing short of a great step in a staircase of great Batman publications for these two. Never a dull moment. Read Full Review

Snyder only has one more issue left in his standalone run on Batman. He covers so much ground in this issue while leaving an intriguing number of questions unanswered. There's no telling how he's going to wrap up this saga, but based on his groundbreaking run on the character so far there's no reason to doubt his final issue will satisfy expectations at the bare minimum. Read Full Review

An apocalyptic thrill ride, Batman: Last Knight on Earth remains a must-read series. Read Full Review

With only three issues left to tell the story, Last Knight on Earth #2 does an excellent job moving the story forward. We end up with a clear direction for Batman to be successful in his mission. However, with the big reveal at the end, Snyder leaves us guessing as to how successful he might be. Read Full Review

Great world building issue worth moving to the top of the read pile and left me excited for the conclusion of the book. Read Full Review

Greg Capullo's art is incomparable. His style and attention to detail are fantastic and you can get lost in how beautiful the panels are. I've gone back over moments several times because they were so visually stunning. Read Full Review

This is a great comic and I absolutely recommend that you buy this! The writing and the art are both fantastic, and, above all, this story is just such an adventure. There are so many twists and turns, and new locations, and familiar characters, and mysterious characters, and intrigue"this is a true page turner that will keep you coming back for more. Read, reread and enjoy! Read Full Review

Once again with an astonishing good read. Read Full Review

'Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2' is a remarkable book that leaves nothing on the table, delivering all of the epic storytelling and valuable insight into humanity that fans have come to expect from this iteration of Batman. Read Full Review

Overall, Batman: Last Knight on Earth seems to be the runaway favorite of the Black label titles so far to give the White Knight series a run for its money.  Its dark, moody, fun, and twisted and I'm having a blast with Snyder and Capullo wrapping up their run on this character. Joker in a Jar, who I didnt look forward too coming into this book, even outright steals the show at points.  Black Label had a rough start with some bad press, but has recovered into an imprint at DC becoming my main form of comic entertainment from the company, this is something I highly recommend. Read Full Review

This is well worth checking out. This is a fantastic example of letting a long-running creative team tell their story in the only way they know how. The art in this book is fantastic and I'm bummed we won't get more of it. Read Full Review

Overall, Batman: The Last Knight on Earth #2is an incredible elseworld story that captures a lot of the whimsy of these “what if” comic runs while also delving into the darkness Batman is known for. With only one issue left, it is hard to determine exactly how everything will be wrapped up as this issue revealed a lot more about the world and its secrets than the previous. Either way, I am very much on board. Read Full Review

With a fast-moving story and an intriguing and thought-provoking examination of good vs. evil, Snyder'sBatman: Last Knight on Earthis shaping up to be a memorable story for the Dark Knight. Read Full Review

Speaking of Batman, our boy is dealing with a lot. His nightmares are of the most chilling variety, and his conscience mind is always at war with this idea that he has caused this future that he inevitably inherited and has to rescue. I have a feeling the nightmares will come back around and mean a lot more. Love the allies that Bruce makes. Love the final page reveal. Omega is shaping up to be a serious force to be reckoned with, and I can't wait to see what else he has in store for the world. Capullo's incredible design gives the villain this menacing feel that feels right. Another stellar issue by him and Scott Snyder.Batman: Last Knight on Earthkeeps the high quality, jaw dropping panels coming. Read Full Review

All that's left is the answer to "who is Omega?" Has to be a member of the Bat-Family. Jason Todd and Damian Wayne would probably be the favorites if Vegas put out odds. But wouldn't it be something if Scott Snyder went with someone out of left field? Read Full Review

Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2 isn't quite as strong as the first issue, but it's a must-read for Bat-fans. Read Full Review

While not as great as the last issue, Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2 is still an incredibly interesting, incredibly beautiful comic. I can't wait to see how this one wraps up in the next and final issue. Read Full Review

"Batman: Last Knight on Earth" #2 gives the creative team some room to stretch their legs and explore the wonders and horrors of this post-apocalyptic wasteland ripped straight from DC's history. Read Full Review

That said, Batman: Last Knight on Earth is not a book that’ll appease everyone — there are going to be readers who find Snyder’s plotting too loose and perhaps even indulgent, skipping from locale to locale in a way that might be seen as disconnected from his central character. It’s not an incorrect read, but I’d argue that’s not really the point of an issue like this — Snyder and Capullo have told plenty of cohesive and tightly focused Batman stories elsewhere, so this is the story where they just get to have fun and build a crazy new world removed from the constraints of continuity and storylines elsewhere. If you read Batman: Last Knight on Earth for what it is rather than for what it isn’t, even in Gotham City’s darkest timeline, it’s hard not to find a smile creeping across your face. Read Full Review

Old Man Batman is full of darkly clever ideas and the creators are having a lot of fun, but the opening issues don't feel too deep just yet. Read Full Review

The world building that was done in Batman: Last Knight On Earth #2 was fantastic. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo have developed a post-apocalyptic world filled with potential. The interactions Batman has with Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor and Joker helped this issue move at a steady pace that never felt slow. How Batman deals with this world and reacts to everything he learns lays the groundwork for a stellar final issue for Batman: Last Knight On Earth. Read Full Review

An enjoyable read then, almost in spite of itself, and a solid set-up for the third and final act when it comes. Read Full Review

Batman: Last Knight on Earth #2 isn't a bad issue at all. It's a chapter in the greater narrative and will fit fine in the end. However, the dreamlike flow of the issue creates a choppy narrative that at times is jarring and others makes no sense. It's just not as good as the far superior first issue. Read Full Review

The plot in the second installment of the series stagnates and doesnt capitalize on the stellar start in the first issue. However, the creative setting and good art remain constant. Read Full Review

This series continues to impress! It is nice to see what destroyed the world early on that having to wait till the end. The introduction of the Court of Owls and the mystery of what happened to the Flash was great. Snyder has done a great job to build up excitement for the next issue.

Incredible. Those 60 pages flew by and I still wanted more, that is rare to impossible.

a modern classic in the making

This is damn good comics. Snyder gets better and better. I found his Batman run to be mediocre apart from the Court of Owls arc, but Metal was good, Batman Who Laughs has been very good, Justice League has been great, and Last Knight on Earth has been super-great. This is what I want out of shared universe DC comics. This book is as epic, surprising, and well-told as pretty much any other Elseworlds story that's come before it, including its spiritual predecessor DKR. The only strike against it is that it can't last longer.

AWESOME!

Loved the Joker in this. Very intrigued to see where this goes.

Better than issue one, certainly. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Hopefully issue 3 sticks the landing.

"CAN I BE ROBIN NOW?"

Snyder and Capullo most definitely delivered with this one.

In this issue, we get more questions answered but also more question as to what is going on. It gives us what we wanted but still leaves us wanting more. Whatever Snyder has in store for us in the finale, I'm sure that as long as it is as good as this one, it'll end up as one of the best stories of this year.

Just like last time, I can't get enough of the Joker, the dynamics between him and Batman are so much fun to read. I also found it to be a great balance as it serves as comedic relief in a rather dark story.

And as usual, Capullo's art is a perfect match to what Snyder is trying to tell and I can't get enough of it. more

Fantastic issue.

When I read the first issue of this series, I assumed that the child in crime alley killed Bruce Wayne for good, and that Dick Grayson had taken up the mantle of the Bat. Dick Grayson would make the case for letting the civilians in the Hall, and Dick Grayson would be torn apart.

But I guess not. According to this issue, the original Bruce Wayne survived the gunshot and doomed the League, also confronting Joe Chill before his death. The boy is revealed to be Joe Chill's son, but his identity remains unsolved, surrounded by some underlying mystery.

Of all the candidates for Omega's identity; Jim Gordon, Damian, Jason, or even another clone Batman created by the villains, I believe that Snyder will pull an "Arkham Knight twist" where it'll actually be a female beneath the mask. Harper Row? Barbara maybe? Damian seems too obvious and Alfred referred to him very formally, as if he didn't know him personally.

Now that I think about it, it's probably Duke Thomas! He wasn't in the Underworld alongside the other dead heroes!

Joker continues to be annoying, but I enjoyed the resolution to his "knock-knock" gimmick that had been going on since the last issue.

The Luthor and Superman segment had a wonderful twist, and the fact that Superman convinced him with his speech adds another level t his character.

This, Doomsday Clock, The Green Lantern, and Justice League are the few series that I genuinely look forward to reading each week, and I hope Three Jokers turns out to be just as good. more

There's a lot to like about the Last Knight on Earth. The art is simply stunning and horrifying in spots. Scott Snyder delivers one of the grandest and sweeping Batman concepts I've ever read. The book keeps it interesting, constantly raising new questions and introducing new ideas on every other page.

To get heavy into plot details would be to go into spoilers. We see the fate of a number of heroes and all of it is grim. We also get a decent explanation for why the world is a mess.

I don't have many gripes with the issue aside from being annoyed by Joker. It doesn't distract from the story I just wish we had a different narrator. If you read the prior issue you know that the implication within the narrative is that this is not our Batman. He's a lot younger than he should be and is drawn like Zero Year: Batman. How cool it would have been if his companion had been an aged Damien or Dick Grayson. I don't think we've ever seen a version of Robin that was older than Batman.


To level set the series so far it feels like a cross between Old Man Logan and Marvel's Universe X series. With Batman as the Stand-in for Wolverine and Captain America Respectively in those series. It's not a ripoff by any stretch but If you like those stories you'll be at home here.

Every revelation is followed up by a pretty horrifying reveal about the setting or a character. The book follows the same general cadence throughout. I'm curious to see if the villain is really (Redacted). I doubt the concluding chapter will be that straight forward but we'll see.

I love Elseworld stories and if Last Knight on Earth sticks the landing for the ending we may be looking at a modern-day classic. more

I see them ! they're safe... They're all safe. "

THE GOOD:

-This was a much better issue than number one. I was really excited by everything that happened here.

-This reminded me of why I love comics like the Court of Owls and Death of the Family. For some reason Metal didn't click with me and issue one of this series kind of fell apart upon rereads, so this feels like a great return to form for a great creative team.

-Huh. Lex Luthor's characterization here was… really good actually. Way better than it had any right to be considering how ridiculous his backstory in this universe was.

-The world building here feels much better. Natural, not overtaking the main story, yet interesting, creative and unique.

-This feels like perhaps career-best work from Greg Capullo. I know that's saying a lot here, but every panel has so much effort clearly put into it. I don't think I would like this comic as much if not for the life the art gives it.

-I love how big this feels. It feels like properly epic story, especially as there's not as much filler in this issue. Snyder has clearly spent a lot of time world building and it shows.

THE BAD:

-The Joker's head still isn't doing it for me for some reason. It feels more like comic relief than some kind of exploration of the relationship of said characters, which is fine, it's just there's some untapped potential there. Ah well, there's always next issue. more

Snyder continues to delve deep into the dystopian, deconstructed world he's created for the series, and as with #1, this issue is trippy as well. It's by far one of the best elseworld tales we've seen in years, but also one that's confusing as hell. So far the series didn't offer us much answers to never ending questions. Quickly progressing action doesn't help either - and if there's a gripe I have with this comic, it would be exactly this. While I perfectly understand not everything can be shown in a single issue without turning it sluggish, slow and simply boring, I wish we've got an opportunity to see a fraction of what Joker mentions to us. Last Knight on Earth is a journey, and as any journey, it should focus on, well, the journey.
That being said, it's not a huge criticism I have for the comic - even if we don't see everything described, what is depicted leaves you engaged and interested. Deeply.
Pick it up - Snyder and Capullo did it again, created something pretty special. more

I didn’t find it as good as #1 but liked the references to different characters in this post-apocalyptic setting and the Lex/Superman status quo. Still quite immersive. Really hoping Omega is not a former robin/bat ally but if it is then I hope Snyder is convincing enough with the reveal.

Great issue. The story is still a little weird& I wouldn’t be surprised, if Omega was another former Robin going total psycho, but the scenes with Joker, especially where he made jokes about Robin were fun to read. Scarecrow was also cool in this issue, hope he also appears in the final one. Wish whatever was done to him& Bane would be explored more.
I think the story was less entertaining when Wonder Woman& Batman were in the Underworld ( or wherever that was), since WWs dialogue was pretty pointless. Overall I don’t know why she’s there at all, because she doesn’t do much anyway.
However nothing, that happens here is mature content, so I’m still asking myself, what is the point of Black Label?
Anyway overall Last Knight on Earth is an interesting rather classic Elseworld story & I’m looking forward to the final issue. more

+ Like • Comments (2)

• Likes (1)

• myconius

Ti-Père BBQ - Aug 1, 2019

Black Label is for stories that's happening in DCU but not canon or related with ongoings

Darkseid24 - Aug 1, 2019

I know, but my point is, that it was announced as a label for comics with mature content, but nothing of this has mature content.

Sign in to comment

Better than the last one. Still not particularly interested in the post-apocalypse.

A good book, perhaps a great book, but a lot to swallow in one sitting. I'll need to read this a few more times to fully digest everything that Snyder explicitly and implicitly packed in.

Capullo's art is quite good.

On a silly note, I wish the Joker lantern head had more awful jokes to break up the tension. Small point, but it was a useful narrative tool. Always good to help the reader go from careful reading with a furrowed brow to a quick chuckle before diving in again.

Moderately better than the first issue, but still a sprawling narrative mess. Joker is completely wasted.

This issue is all over the place, the series is quickly devolving into just an excuse to showcase cooky future apocalypse stuff. I hope part three stays more focused on the plot and characters.

The fuck did I just read? It didn’t make any sense. And even if that was the point of this series it has to still be enjoyable.

Snyder and Capullo got me back into comics with their New 52 Batman run. I'll pick up what ever they put out without hesitation but I cannot get into this series.