'Shadows Of The Bat' enters its final act as things take a dangerous and chaotic turn, putting various characters into dangerous positions as familiar new players enter the game. Both stories in this issue showcase the inherent dangers that can be present in Gotham, where the struggle between light and dark is heavy and takes a major toll on those caught in the middle. Read Full Review

Overall, this chapter doesn't advance the plot too much until the very end, but it does a great job at immersing us in the story as everything goes to hell. Read Full Review

An action-packed issue of classic Batman tropes and storytelling... even without Batman needing to be there! Read Full Review

Naheulpan delivers some fantastic art in this issue. The action scenes are thrilling and fun throughout. There are awesome character moments and the art perfectly captures the tension of the story. Read Full Review

All of this great writing by Tamaki and artwork by Nahuelpan made Detective Comics #1055 one of the better issues of this weekly Batman event. I am genuinely invested in all the characters in this story. Which all creates greater excitement for discovering how The Shadows of the Bat event will end. Read Full Review

Detective Comics' two stories picked up steam this week. Read Full Review

As we go through the final stretch, Mariko Tamaki has shown she is not letting up on the action and drama of Shadows. We know the big return is happening soon. The only question is how exciting will that return be. (And can we please get the reveal of the Boy's identity?) Read Full Review

Detective Comics #1055 shines in the darkness of the stories it puts on display. The drama can still get more heated, surprisingly, as we get right near the finales. If you haven't already, get this issue and go back to #1047 and work our way up. Read Full Review

Detective Comics #1055 was yet another wonderful addition to the weekly series. If you're reading and enjoying them as much as I am, talk about them! Leave comments, tweet, share a status or two kids! Let everyone know what's been happening down at Arkham Tower! I'll be waiting. Read Full Review

Detective Comics #1055, while being more plot driven like last issue focuses just enough on some of the individuals of the Bat-family as well as moving the plot forward in a significant way. Furthermore, the second feature continues to be an interesting look at (presumably) Nero in the context of Batman's know past. Read Full Review

Tamaki and co. took a big risk by introducing a new foe this late in the game. Though this issue is well executed, it is frustrating to see such a large potential monkey wrench thrown in during the closing pages. If the creative team cannot adequately explain how and why their new main villain is here during the next three issues, all of the good work they have done so far could be for naught. Read Full Review

The main story has great art and a great Huntress scene, but other than that I don't think it's worth your time or your money. The backup continues to be great, and it's absolutely worth your time, but the price point is still too high. I recommend waiting for the "House of Gotham" trade (please make it happen, DC!) and skipping "Shadows of the Bat." Read Full Review

Well, like your average anime, things have become too much for the others, so cue Batman to come in and save their asses. I get kind of tired of this always happening, but still, it was a pretty good issue. It's a bit soon for the Scarecrow, since we had to deal with him all last year. Arkham has a ton of other looneys we haven't seen in a while, but no. It's the same bad guy we've seen enough of for a while. Couldn't they have at least ditched the stupid gas mask?
As for our backup story, we now enter the No Man's land point in the saga of the least lucky boy who ever lived. This story continues to be the more interesting of the two. Though it's rare these days for both to be entertaining. That makes Detective the only $5 book worth paying that price for. more

Detective Comics - 8/10, fun stuff, the stories starting to really come together here, nice twist at the end too

House of Wayne - 8.5/10

I found the beginning entertaining until Nightwing got his butt handed to him. Really incompetent that just didn’t ring true and then the book just warps to the surprise ending that I just go yeah um no. The backup story was very good. I will say if the backup was put into a full length trade all by itself then I feel overall it will become a classic. Besides a few issues it has been continuously strong.

The main story is... fine. I'm just reading this for the backup now. The backup is really neat. We get to see No Man's Land from a new perspective.

Shadows of the bat started off strong but for a few issues it has become clear what is going on and it's no longer very interesting.

The art is good, the story sucks.

No change from any other recent issue.

this was okay to be honest. Shadows of the Bat is running out of steam right now.

I want to support a batfamily story, I really do. But the characterization of some characters is getting so completely off that it's almost funny.
This issue we got Huntress, doing acrobatics and fighting when injured and shouting jokes at Dr. Freeze. At the same time, we got Nightwing who can't even sneak on a villain, literally stumbles and falls, beaten by every single opponent around, and ends as a hostage.
Unless the sole purpose of the series is to prop Huntress, I really don't get what's the endgame here.

It just keeps going.