The degree of character immersion, the additions to the Gotham cast, and the overall depth these two stories attempt to reach are engaging. I cannot recommend Detective Comics #1070 enough. If youre a fan of Batman, a Grundy lover, a Mr. Freeze fanatic, think the Orghams are the first great new villains in a long time, or realize how Gotham is an incredible character all on its own, then wait no more. Get. This. Issue. Heck, when you see Detective Comics #1070 go up for pre-order, save it to your wishlist. Read Full Review

This is a well done issue of Detective Comics and fans of this story arc will be thrilled with how the mystery is unweaving itself. The entire package yells quality and keeps that epic feel despite being just a piece of the larger puzzle. Read Full Review

Ram V is building a long-form mystery here, as the Orghams have the time and patience to make their roots in Gothamand it may be the biggest threat Gotham has faced in some time. Read Full Review

Raffaele has an interesting and unique visual style and it works really well for the tone of this story. Read Full Review

It's a compliment when I say this might be the weirdest Batman run published in recent history. Read Full Review

Ram V is letting the mystery into Detective Comics in a way that feels fresh and fascinating. The story might be running the risk of heading down a ridiculous path, but its nice to see a writer trying something new with the series. There have been countless issues over the decades that have played it WAY too safe with the series. Ram Vs work is positively courageous next to the drudgery that had been the series for so much of the mid-to-late 20th century.  Read Full Review

Detective Comics #1070 is a story-building issue, one equal to a mid-season episode of a TV show. Nothing major happens but it's important to further the plot. Read Full Review

Detective Comics needs a spark or at least some progression in this arc whether from Batman confronting the Orgham crew again or something else to advance the story. Ram V throws in appearance from The Vigil, one of the new teams created in the wake of Lazarus Planet. Instead of working in more new characters, this story needs to be winding down and end on a high note. Read Full Review

Ram V and Si Spurrier's dark poetic exploration of Batman and the strange, operatic threats he faces progress forward with some crucial revelations from both Prince Orgham and Talia al Ghul. Read Full Review

At last we've gotten some backstory on the Orgham family, and their deeper motivations for being in Gotham. This telling, and Arzen's interactions with Bruce are both the best part of the issue and the focus. Bruce's own personal struggles come into play again, giving readers further insight into how he is faring during this whole affair. However, the slower pacing and time spent introducing even more characters takes away from the overall enjoyment of the issue a bit. I'm hopeful these elements will all work together in the future, but experience is saying that nothing will change the structure of the pacing. Still, if you don't mind a more gradual structure to narrative pacing, the issue is a fun read. Read Full Review

Detective Comics #1070 takes a break from an already slow-moving story to introduce a few interesting ideas, tease a little bit about the Orghams' history, and devote the rest of the issue to a backdoor pilot for the upcoming The Vigil comic (also written by Ram V). If you're all in on the Orghams, you could skip this issue and not miss a thing. Read Full Review

This is absolutely phenomenal!! This is elite level storytelling! Stories like this and writers like ram v are why I love modern comics so much. The complexity and density of this story told in such a intelligent way at a perfect pace while being steeped in emotion is everything detective should be and currently is. The backup story is also fantastic! This is a phenomenal time to be reading detective comics. Absolutely brilliant! I can't wait for the vigil as well

While there's certainly still a pacing issue with this run, and you could validly point out that we're spending time in this very long story essentially advertising a different book, the writing here mostly works. I could nitpick, but it's not unengaging. However, I don't think anyone would say that the backups by Spurrier aren't the best part of this book every month.

This book suffers real pacing issues spending a lot of time on exposition. And while I didn't mind it that much in the beginning Ram V should pick up the pace of the story. At the point when he introduced his new characters for Vigil book I was falling asleep with how much overloaded setup is being laid

I used to think nobody could drag out a storyline quite like Bendis. Then there’s this… A shame, too, this storyline started out with a lot of promise.

This will be my last Detective issue, at least for now. I see I'm not the only one getting tired of this story being serialized for much longer than was necessary. One day I may get the next 30 or so chapters V has planned, but odds are that will be some time after this monotonously long story will be long forgotten and back issues will be in dollar comic bins.
While it seems Batman is FINALLY starting to realize who his enemies are here and what connection Ra's Al Ghul has to them I still doubt things are anywhere near finished. Odds are Batman will have to take these characters down one at a time leading to the final confrontation, just like in some never ending anime story. And what's worse, all of his classic foes to appear in this have been at their most boring in ages. Two-Face, Mr. Freeze and Solomon Grundy have so much more potential than what they've been given of late.
Sadly I'm not on the edge of my seat, I'm not anticipating what will happen next (Probably because nothing is what we usually get next) and I don't consider this boring supernatural CW series-worthy plot the least bit intriguing. It's lasted so long all I want is for it to FINALLY end. But since it obviously won't any time soon I'm going to start saving my 4$.99 every month.
The only thing I can say I liked was the variant I chose. To sign off from this series with an issue with a cover by Kelly Jones, who was doing them when I started collecting 30 years ago is a pretty unique way. Worth an extra dollar to have a nice cover for my farewell issue.
So long Detective Comics. Maybe I'll see you again after this story is finally over in 3 or 4 more years.... more

The problem is that these writers all want that big Trade Paper Back money. So the telling of their stories has shifted into these long draged out and often boring stories. Bad ideas take over the book and monthly readers have to suffer a year or more of some hack moaning and groaning about how old Bruce feels, how tired he is, or how much better it is that he isn't rich anymore. All of these things are not what attracted readers to the book in the 1st place. If you want a good Batman book, check out Batman/Superman. That series gets what Batman should be, it's a good read for the most part. Anyway don't believe the hype of some of the other reviewers on here, judge for yourself but mostly save your money and hopefully things will change for the better. more

I think this story will go on for at least 30 years before we get anything going - a book with the slowest story progression decides to take up time introducing a new team for Ram V's mini????

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Bats20832 - Mar 28, 2023

Well, Ram Z's approach is one way to get DC Comics to have less focus on Batman stories- reduce number of readers.

hesfkshgf - Mar 28, 2023

lol - i don't know if that's what DC wants... but it's what they are getting!!!

RKS - Apr 1, 2023

The powers that be gave up on actual comicbooks a long time ago. They run the division with a skeleton crew in the hopes they some how come up with content they can use for other projects. The end result is mostly garbage.

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