Bruce Wayne's journey to become Batman continues in the cold mountains of North Korea, where he seeks to learn the legendary fighting style of Master Kirigi! This will be his most difficult challenge yet, and he might not survive without the help of a mysterious new "friend."
The ending sets up some potential bigger threats down the line as wellit continues to be one of the best origin retellings in a long time. Read Full Review
BATMAN: THE KNIGHT #4 continues to summarize the early years between Bruce's parents' death and his first year as BATMAN in a masterful way. This depiction of the character is logical and does a fantastic job of weaving together so many of these early stories and narrative nuggets heard throughout the years into one creative gem. Read Full Review
Carmine Di Giandomenico delivers some beautiful art throughout the story. From the weather elements to the brutally of the fights, there is a wonderful, tangible element to the art that captures the emotion of the scenes. Read Full Review
Batman: The Knight #4 is another good issue in a fascinating exploration of Bruce Wayne prior to becoming the greatest detective, and some might say fighter, in all of comics. Even more importantly, with Zdarsky taking over full time on the main series it's even more exciting to read Batman: The Knight knowing everything is important. Read Full Review
Batman: The Knight is continuing to peel back the narrative onion that is Bruce Wayne's early days, and this issue finds some inventive and action-packed ways to deal with that. Read Full Review
I wish it hadn't taken the entire first act, but this series finally has my attention. I'm now officially interested to see what comes next, and how this tale of Batman's past will affect his modern-day adventures. Read Full Review
The stereotypes in this book are more than a little bit troubling, but it features some stellar art. That's not enough to balance it, but it's fun to look at. Read Full Review
What's here is fun and exciting, but feels like a step down from the previous issues due to its lack of novelty. The characters continue to be well written and the art shines in both big action scenes and conveying the subtlety of characters' emotions. I'm invested in seeing where Bruce's journey will take him next. However I hope that this doesn't become just an extended version of the same globetrotting training montage we've already seen so many times before. Read Full Review
Batman: The Knight #4 continues Bruce Wayne's quest to become Batman in an issue that, unfortunately, was kind of boring. It does end with a cool cliffhanger, but you need more than that when the most important question going into this book is whether or not it is necessary. I am a Chip Zdarsky fan, but I am slowly losing interest in this book. Hopefully, the next issue will get me as excited as I was after the first two issues. Read Full Review
This is, by far and away, the best Batman book that DC is putting out, with maybe Killing Time a distant second. Chip Zdarsky has found the perfect voice for a young Bruce Wayne, as someone who's a bit of a hothead but also a stubborn moral streak. A comic that can jump from some locale to another without missing a beat is special. Zdarsky's raised the bar very high for his upcoming run on Batman.
Such a good book. Zdarksy writes a great, grounded Bruce Wayne.
My favorite thing about this run so far is so Zdarsky introduces all these new personas into the Batman mythos, it honestly does a LOT to make all of this feel fresh and new.
Really enjoying this.
Really solid! I absolutely adore how it feels very Batman Begins in this issue.
This series attracts me a lot although in this issue it is quite obvious who the "little birdie" is. Looking forward to reading the Batman main series from Zdarsky.
The weakest one until now, but still a very enjoyable comic, i love the way Zdarsky writes Bruce in such a particular moment in his life, can't way to see what he will do in the main series. Also, this is actually the first time i have read something with Ghost-maker, i didn't read Tynion's run but i know that he came up with a bunch of new characters and this was one that i saw a lot of people talking about, and now i get why, he seems pretty cool and i think it's a really logical and interesting idea the fact that Bruce wasn't the only one training to fight crime, and during his years travelling the world he must have met other individuals on the same journey as him, very curious to see what will cause their fallout.
a pretty good and solid issue.
I don't know what happened here, in general I enjoy this writer's narrative, although sometimes I don't share some parts of his stories and the shape of his vision, however this was a bit slow.
It’s fine. I hope this guy can step up his writing juuuust a bit for the main Batman series though.