I know that many are still unsure of Jace's worthiness to share the mantle of Batman. I was doubtful myself at first, but as Ridley's story develops, Jace is really growing into the role. I Am Batman #13 contains a major landmark in the story, as Tiff takes her first steps towards establishing her own crimefighting identity. It will be interesting to see if Jace will put a quick end to it, or accept her as his "Robin. Read Full Review

The Batman/Question scenes were terrific, but Ridley's fascination with Tiff's vigilante journey made this installment a disappointment compared to previous issues since the big relocation to New York. Read Full Review

The main flaw with this comic is that Jace is often the least interesting character in it, and the rest of his family shines a little more. Read Full Review

‘I Am Batman' most assuredly has a law enforcement issue that continues to drag the story of the new Batman further and further down from what it could and should be, and there isn't an end in sight for this issue. Jace Fox is a good character, a Black Batman is a great concept, and the creative team is putting their all into this series but it's just not fully clicking even after thirteen issues. Read Full Review

While I do love the art in I Am Batman #13 and the progression of Tiff Fox's character, I have to say the majority of this story came off as a snooze fest and that's really disappointing for a book that I was originally loving, especially when it came to New York City. Hopefully, with the two developments we got in this issue the next issue will start raising the stakes and make this title one that is a must-read going forward... Hopefully. Read Full Review

The series is definitely something different, but it's often a mixed bag whether that's a good or bad thing. Read Full Review

This issue, although it has shown improvement, does not exist in a vacuum and is way too dependent on you following an incredibly mediocre (at best) story that advances at a snail's pace. I could have easily spent a large part of this review criticizing this issue for how it ties into the overall story but I really love seeing people improve their work and I wanted to make sure I spent this review talking about that. Read Full Review

This saga needs to tighten up quickly because it's hard to care about the character beyond his relationship with Lucius Fox. The potential is great but diminishes if it goes unfulfilled. For its own sake, I'm really hoping this can get itself together. Read Full Review

I'm still really liking this story. Ridley continues to have an intriguing political mystery with some well-written characters. I particularly liked Hadiyah's story about the relationship she had with her father, his eventual murder, and what she realized about how she handled that whole situation. I'm not sure how I feel about Tiffany trying to become a hero, but I don't dislike it or anything and I have been enjoying her story thus far.

The bad ratings are from racists

Enter The Hypocrisy. This issue 13 has an OH BOY hypocrisy statement from Jace Fox. Jace Fox: "He's the worst of the worst. A crook in uniform. He's got power and he abuses it. People like him are the reason I became a Batman." And Detective Keenan may have been responsible for killing Anarky and he should be punished.

Excuse me, Jace Fox chose to work out his OWN GUILT as an unpunished hit-and-run murderer of Enrique Acevedo by wearing a Batman costume. There may be indeed a lot of "crooks in uniform," and they must be opposed by those who believe in Justice. But the uncomfortable truth is that Jace Fox is also one of those "crooks in uniform," just with a mask and not wearing a badge.

When Ridley wants to go the PSA route here, Jace Fox needs to take a hard look in the mirror first. It was a corrupt police force - "crooks in uniform" - that allowed Tim/Jace Fox to get away with the murder of Enrique Acevedo.

Amazing how Enrique Acevedo managed to go down the DC Comics history rat-hole. John Ridley's history of comics rationalizing murder by costumed heroes, both at DC and Wildstorm, creates an obvious hypocrisy when he writes about abuse of authority. These are not "accidental deaths" - but DC's Jace/Tim Fox running someone over and leaving them to die, without calling for medical help - or in Wildstorm, his super-powered Jason Fisher beating someone literally to death.

I agree 1000% with Mr. Ridley's assertion that we should oppose "crooks in uniform" that abuse their authority. Just don't think Mr. Ridley's writing that promotes and glamorizes his own "crooks in uniform" is consistent with his assertion in this comics issue. Mr. Ridley's characters need to pick a side that they are on: (a) abusing authority and murder, (b) opposing those that abuse authority and murder.

This hypocrisy goes back to the foundational conflict here. If this Jace Fox is a conflicted Batman character, that is one thing. If this Jace Fox want to claim to be an above-being-a-criminal Batman, then that is simply an obvious lie. If we want more credible characters in that Batman role, we should be at his brother Luke Fox or his sister Tiffany Fox.
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