Should've started with a new number 1. Why tf was it not a new number 1. It just makes me think it's gonna be like Tynion where he's really just a placeholder for the next guy. The issue was good though, nothing amazing but good.

DC are so bad at numberings. They don't have the legacy numbering like Marvel has, and when they renumber it's only if there is a relaunch or something. If you're not gonna renumber when a new run starts then why not just keep the original numbering. more

I'm really liking this. It's good. I've reread previous issues and they are better than I reviewed them at first.

And hey, no missleading cover, eh? That wasn't so hard, was it Lowe?

But JRJR's art thou. I started rereading his and JMS' run and my grodd was his art so much better back then...

Dope

"An enraged fan is an engaged fan" seems to be the stupid hook they are going with for this new run. Peter acts as if Ock is back in his body, he's an unlikeable little shithead in the book. I don't know what Marvel's obsession with ruining Spider-Man since 2008 has been but the only thing that can salvage the character is to undo One More Day and rewrite the timeline.

Zdarsky is so good

How anyone likes this is beyond me. Batman is a fucking psychopath in this terrible book. Batman uses Dick as a way to find ways to take down children, and uses the excuse of not letting Dick have a childhood by saying he never had one therefore Dick shouldn't.

The only critique I have is that the super stylised panel layout can be a little difficult to follow occasionally, especially when the panels are small.

Other than that everything good about the last issue is once again present here and much more this time, absolutely brilliant. The last issue was amazing but this one just goes above and beyond, the few issues I had with the last issue are fixed in this.

Batman the Imposter is the best Batman book of at least the last five years. more

I've heard that Sam Hamm had a different vision for the Batman '89 movie and that he couldn't get through with it because of all the people that were working on the movie then. Well I say to those people "congrats, you've done a great job". If this guy were to go all the way with it those movies wouldn't have got the cult following they did. I feel like he suffers from a severe case of white guilt, all the story is basically about race. Two-Face as a character is seen through those lenses, the DA job matters very little. Oh, and if you want to read YET ANOTHER comic where Bruce is trying to lose all his money, you've got it here. Seriously, this is a pattern. First, he loses his fortune in the main DCU. Then, his son Nightwing throws away all his money at problems, literally. And now here, Bruce is willing to do the same thing. Once it's no problem, twice it may be something there, but when it's the third time in these last months when a Batman character is having the same rhetoric, I can't pretend it's a coincidence and it's not ideological rhetoric. more

Great stuff, far superior to anything Burton ever did.

Great stuff, far superior to anything Burton ever did.

Great stuff, far superior to anything Burton ever did.

Batman the Imposter #1 was brilliant for a whole list of reasons.



Positives
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The art is spectacular.


The writing is amazing. People talk like actual people, the plot is interesting and complex while remaining airtight.


The story dismantles the idiotic claims that Bruce Wayne should just throw money at Gotham, and fix it that way as if that would work.


The question of "what would Batman really be like?" is handled in a very intersting way.


The world building is phenomenal.


I'm a sucker for the ultra realistic takes on Batman.


Finally an R Rated Batman book that utilizes the fact that it's Rated R.



Negatives
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I wish Batman was in the book more like him as a person and not as a presence, however he's most definitely gonna be in the next two a lot more. This issue is very much about setting the buildings blocks as this is a completely new universe. We are introduced to a lot of new faces that we experience this new version of The Dark Knight through, but the next two issues as I said will most likely be told from Batman's point of view. If the following two fail to do so then I'll be very disappointed but thus far I do not mind this approach of setting the stage, so it'll be much more character driven in the next one.

my only critiques in regards to the art are Bruce Wayne's design, he looks much younger than what they are going for. He looks closer to a Robin than Bruce Wayne, and that the batsuit doesn't have blades on the gauntlets.

There are things that will become a negative if they don't get resolved in the following issues. If Alfred and Gordon are just not in this Batman's life anymore, then I'll be highly disappointed, but I presume they'll both come back at some point. more