Cable used to be one of my favorite characters, now he's so boring to read. Even Noto's art is not good as it used to be.

64 pages and all of them badly written. The artwork isn't terrible but it isn't great either. Save your money.

Story is boring, art is worse than the first issue by far. Time to hop off this series.

This was a slog to get through.

It is ridiculous this Batman who just for putting on his hood without training only with resources that I imagine he stole from somewhere snaps his fingers and is a fighter and detective at the height of Bruce Wayne.
The only thing that raises this story is the part of Cass and Step, the art is very good but the things they take for granted spoil, there is a desperate need to make this Batman like, whoever likes them well, sorry I am not convinced by a Batman who is only good for his economic resources. more

This series tries to juggle way too many characters alot of the time which makes the storyline drag out way longer than necessary. Those are really my only complaints of the series and this issue.

Oh man!! I just can't stand how they are just so lazily creating new characters. "He did what the original Batman could not and truly saved Gotham". I ranted about this in another post but are we actually going to see how Tim Fox had the proper training to actually be Batman? He was a full grown adult when he was introduced. Where did he learn everything from? Hes like Rey in the sequels lol.
>But I was planning on skipping Justice League once I heard Bendis was the new writer anyway so I guess I don't care about the far future of Justice League or the near future of it either. more

This whole event is just meh. It's not terrible, but this whole event and all of its tie ins could have been covered in about 3 issues. The Cotati could have been so much more interesting if they added more than Quoi and Swordsman(I dont get why he is referred to as swordsman, its a plant with his memories).
Off topic but the fact that Marvel is going out of it's way to show that the Black Panther is in charge is starting to irk me. We get it, he's black and "in charge".I have never in my 20+ years of collecting and reading Avengera there being a leader as anything more than a figurehead. They make it seem like there is now a chain of command and he is in charge. The Avengers are a group of heroes banded together for the same cause and do not "take orders" from anyone. They listened to Cap because they respected him, not because he was the "leader". more

Overall it was pretty good. Not sure I'm a huge fan of them dying every issue so easily. Like, how the hell did they ever survive this long without being able to come back from the dead. And one thing that is really bothering me is how Wolverine gets blown in half. He heals AND is basically indestructible. He is not deadpool. I can't believe no one else has mentioned it. Is it adamentium lite? Benjamin Percy get your head out of your butt! more

The beginning of the Next Batman is like the beginnings of Batman without the death of his parents mixed a bit with the problems of the mutants in X-Men, that is, it is an exciting but trite beginning, which is good because it fulfills the function of entertain, however personally there is nothing that tells me to stay and buy me, much less when it is a jumble of stories that follow or summarize, it is a presentation book about the numbers that will come regarding what concerns Gotham.
Outsiders that was decent, nothing extraordinary.
A suicide squad guy with an Arkham Knight who stole Captain America's armor with everything and a ridiculous shield with an A.
In short, it fulfills its function of entertaining, there is nothing new on the horizon, only old formulas that make it seem new and two somewhat boring stories. for my taste. more

worst Batman ever.

This book is a mess.

As expected this will see some backlash by people who have a "particular" issue about who's wearing the cowl this time around. The less said about that the better.

As an actual Batman comic though this has a lot to offer. The initial story is setup/a quick and easy crime story but its good one. The scenario is a good one and I think we are going to see how about how things came to be this way over the next 3 issues. The art is very strong and the action is fun and cool. Nothing groundbreaking by any means but a solid story.

The Outsiders story surprised me. A Katana showcase for the most part, it has some absolutely killer action sequences with fantastic art. The style reminds me heavily of Sean Gordon Murphy, in a good way. Very much like what was done here. Seriously, there a spread in here that is almost worth the price of admission alone.

The last story is... interesting, but definitely the weakest. Its a decent enough premise but if you didn't read the Detective Comics arc about Arkham Knight(I didn't) its hard to get invested in that character or this story. The art is mostly solid but not as good as the others in my opinion and the way the main character speaks is unnatural, but I am not certain if that is intentional or not.

This is overall well worth the money. It has a surprising amount of content and you get 3 decent-really good stories for the price of a little less than 3 issues. I reccomend. more

The Batman story was legitimately good. I want to see where John Ridley goes with that. Undeniably the best thing I've read from Future State so far. The Outsiders back up was pretty good. It flows well. The Arkham Knights back up is really, really boring. This was almost a solidly good collection of stories, if not for the last one.

The Next Batman storyline had me interested and it was good but it was too short. I didn't really care about those backup-stories, Detective Comics' Arkham Knight -storyline was not that interesting for me and I never really read Outsiders.

So the Magistrate is essentially the fascist Batman from Alex Ross' Kingdom Come? Sure...

The Outsiders was ok, but a bit confusing.

Arkaham Knights... oh boy was that rough.

I have zero interest in Tim as Batman. He's already started off on the wrong foot by jumping the queue of more deserving characters to the Bat mantle.

The Fox family dynamic isn't bad, but this has been done with the Gordons but better since I actually care about them.

Art sucked. The backup stories w/Arkham Knight leading Batman's rogues gallery was cool. Outsiders didn't interest me.

I honestly just wanna go back to Bruce and the Batfamily. more

It exists. The art looked mostly nice, the stories somewhat intriguing. I don't get why this wasn't a natural plot development in the monthly Batman or Detective Comics series. As a set of miniseries in an elseworld limited high priced book? It's pointless. I would love to read a real Tim Fox as Batman story, set where it really has an impact on DC continuity. Or an evolution of the Outsiders story to go where this series does. The limited, inconsequential nature of these stories makes them impossible to be entertained by. more