A real standout title. Pretty sad that people who don't read comics are review bombing this

This issue feels like the plot is really beginning to coalesce. After months of build up, the steps taken in this issue feel earned. I was critical of the early parts of PKJ's run, and I stand by that because this current arc sort of cements my problems with those early issues. Those issues tried to tell a higher concept story but without the methodical pacing of this arc. We were thrown into the unknown, alien concepts without any sort of acclimation, and then we were gone before there was any chance at adjustment. I would really like to know if that initial crossover between the two Superman titles was originally intended, or if Bendis left earlier than expected. more

No.

All course, Taylor. Let's make a joke about marrying a couple who know each other like... three weeks?

LOL This is the most hilarious issue I’ve ever read in years. So while in Superman’s tie-in he dreams that he could spend time with his son, John Stewart wants a world without anyone better than him, like the Trinity, and Hal Jordan. Thus he will be praised as the greatest hero the world’s ever seen, by his mother. What does the writer want to say? John Stewart is such a man of vanity? Or it’s just another case of crazy fanboyism, like Geoff Thorne? Anyway it suits him well. more

Picked up this weeks issue cause my buddy said the book has gotten better…nope still trash. Waste of $4. I wonder what DC’s plans for Jon are after Dark Crisis and War World. Hopefully Dark Crisis retcons his age up, and returns him to a kid. DCeased and Injustice remains Taylor’s best work.

Overall pretty disappointing.

Just not interesting to me.

Bad Robin characterization. And sneaking onto a submarine? Plus, a flight ring? And learning use it without any training? Yes, the whole concept of superheroes is silly, but there has to be SOME logic.Also, plot just not interesting.

Meh, a little bit boring. It's not bad, there are some good details and panels, but Taylor spent the issue in talking and talking to explain all the things, and the inconsistence in the art is bad too.

I don't know which is worse the art work or the horrible story. "The Revolutionaries" on page 6 made me break out into laughter they are that bad of a concept team. Just Taylor just throwing whatever he can out there hoping something sticks so he can collect a creator credit I guess. The plot points of convivence are what really gets me though, Lois Lane just acts out of character and reports on this social media outlet "The Truth" instead of the Daily Planet because...Reasons? Also, the workers just shutting down the "Storm Shield" because Jay asks them to? Yeah they live in a horrible place ruled with an iron fist apparently but they just causally endanger themselves and their families on a whim because a stranger shows up in a costume and asks them to...Sure. Then there is the ending of the book where Jay finds his mother is now some superpowered monster...Didn't see that twist coming a mile away, it just isn't that much of a cliffhanger ending. This book is good for a laugh at just how bad it actually is. more

Can we please get back to Bruce Wayne being a millionaire Playboy again? Just that one little change in the story would make all the difference in the world for these books. They have chopped out 1/2 of what makes up the Batman character. Although I'm glad they finally got rid of Mariko Tamaki the writing isn't much better. If you want a good Batman stories, honestly it seems you have to go read back 30 years or so. more

A new Detective Comics with the same basic message from DC Comics writers, editors, and publishers: ** They really HATE Batman Bruce Wayne ** (with a passion). Barbatos, the demon again (eye roll). Big whoop. More supernatural woo from Ram V. Give me The Spectre, and he will straighten this nonsense out. But honestly, we are not buying The Spectre, as the title says "Detective Comics." Bruno Maroni should go see an emergency dentist for all of that green goo leaking out of this mouth. Yech. And you know, Batman needs to be rescued by assassin Talia (yeah, right.) And I really don't care about the Orgham Family and Svatrstal. Not Shavhod, not Neng, not Gael (in Gotham - oh woo, we should be scared).

If you like this, and obviously MOST reviewers think it is fantastic, good for you. I won't throw $5 more dollars away for this. Every time, I think Detective Comics is turning the corner, it goes off the rails, crashing down the hill again. DC Editors love it. If they can't "kill" Batman (really), at least make him "over-the-hill," possessed by a demon, etc., as they snicker and take our sucker money.

I mean, GOD forbid, Ram V actually writes a detective story about stopping CRIME... because you know, in the post-modern anti-hero era, Crime is Good. Yech. Take your creeping dread back to your horror stories where it and EC Comics belongs.

And the piece d'resistance: a snarky Nightwing Dick Grayson with a sneer and "Bruce, you ever consider the fact that you just might be getting too old for...." and "I'd kick your butt, old man." OK, with me Ram V! Why don't you just go write Nightwing instead then. Or maybe DC vs Vampires, I mean they killed Batman there. DC Comics and Ram V - you ever consider the fact that Batman fans are fed up with your crapping on Batman Bruce Wayne?

Why should we buy Ram V's Detective Comics if he believes Batman is just "over-the-hill?" Didn't we have two years of that stuff with Mariko Tamaki? If you don't like writing about the Batman character, find another job. Write a different comic. Why bother doing this? And we ALL KNOW. Because $$$$. The ONLY reason DC grudgingly keeps Batman and Detective Comics around.

Ram V - they're not coming and you are still not prepared. Try actually reading a few Detective Comics from the past 80 years. That would be a starting point. But no, you will want this to be another JLA Dark. How are the sales for that? If there hadn't been JLA to prop it up, would you be writing for Dynamite Comics?

(And in the crap follow-on story, we really needed a drunk old Jim Gordon, talking about Alzheimer's Disease and being told to retire. Because that story was really necessary here, right? It would really increase sales.) I mean, heh heh, right, wipe your feet on some more legacy characters.

It is not **all** bad with new team on Tec. I mean after all, Batman is not using the Gotham City sewers for a Bat-Cave. So there is that. So much "progress" with Detective Comics.

It's your $5 and your time.

P.S.: With over 1 million dead in the elder genocide of COVID-19 in USA, which is a speed bump to much of the USA society. The obvious and blatant ageist hate in the writing in Dectective Comics 1062 by horror writer Ram V (and his "old man" dialogue) and "Alzheimers" crap by Simon Spurrier. Ageist hate has become so normalized (like white supremacism), it is not even noticeable by those who view themselves as superior based on their youth. more

Why do they keep giving Russell work. This wasn't as bad as his previous stories but 90 pages is a lot of his writing style and messaging is tedious.

Feels like the story is stalling.

I am so over this storyline. They have dragged and dragged this story out so far that there's literally nothing left. I understand that they did it to get to 1050, but as a reader I now dread having Action in my pull for the week. But I've gone this far as might as well see it to the end. Plus I'm tired of paying $5.00 for an additional ongoing story that I didn't ask for. Detective does the same thing. more

What a strange issue, bad script sometimes, a lot of dialogue, and a predictable last page. Meh.

A flat start to a promising premise of a series, as soon as Vengeance (female Bane) showed up the book nose dived hard. If you want Azrael, you're going to have to go back to the original series because whatever this is, ain't it.

Nothing like edge lord writing with a bunch of fake deaths in a dream to bog down a story. So far Bendix is the most likeable character in the series. Jon just can't carry a series as a solo character, that's all there is to it really. Save your money kids.

In all honesty 10 pages for a dream and vision that we know is never going to come I a lot. And in all honesty I don't care for the main villain anymore. To me all of his goals and doings are for just for the sake of him being evil. And unfortunately he doesn't have the reasoning of lex luthor or his charm to make me care for him.

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Privilege. Billionaire' Row. Where hit-and-run killer Jace Fox lives, when he is not wearing a Batman costume in NYC, pretending to work for law and order as his form of penance. Privilege. Since he is too privileged to actually pay for his crimes like everyone else. Murder by Jace Fox is OK. Murder by others is wrong. Privilege.

What I would like about this story is if Detective Chubb was consistent about law and order, including the criminal Jace Fox. Equality Under the Law. Not Privilege. But John Ridley doesn't want to write about that. What a shame. I like the characters of Detective Chubb and Whitaker. If they had a larger role, this might be more interesting.

Meantime, there is just too much soap opera nonsense going on. I see this headed in the direction of now sadly canceled Batwoman series. What a shame, and she was a heroine 100 times more credible than the criminal Jace Fox.

Sometimes there really is no glamor in Privilege.

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This book became tedious after 15 pages. I guess being rich is a "bad" thing and we should all hate people with money now. A key element of Batman is escapism and Bruce Wayne being a "Millionaire Playboy" is part of that. This...This is just crap, no getting around it.

Zdarsky continuing the tradition of a sad mopey Batman.

But this time Batman is an idiot that walks right into letting himself get framed for murder.

..... whoopsie-poo!

If you want to push my buttons, have a plot depend on people being stupid.

And boy, Bats was stupid in this issue. Penguin is mad at the 1 percent and will kill anyone who inherited more than $5 million. That’s a lot of people. $5 million really isn’t that much money. But there’s going to be some big billionaire ball, and Bruce might not qualify because he doesn’t have the bucks. He might even be worth $5 million and thus be off penguin’s radar.

Bruce is working with Tim and Tim only. No Batgirls or other sidekicks. Bruce wrangles an invite. Clay face is faking being Penguin, who is dying of mercury poisoning BECAUSE HE EATS A LOT OF FISH. HE’S A PENGUIN AND HE EATS FISH, GET IT? GET IT?

Tim is shot in the neck and an artery is hit. Bruce is forced to take him to a real hospital because Tim will bleed out. He finds Pengyat hosp. And Penny kills himself to frame Batman.

Cats is sleeping with some dude and gives Bruce an awkward brush off. The backup is about how some robot hires Selina to track down Pengy’s never mentioned until now kids.

Why is this all dumb? They hold a billionaire ball when Pendy announces he is going to kill billionaires? There appears to be no extra security. Billionaires show up instead of hiding in their panic rooms? That’s three deeply stupid plot points in one event. Tim is almost killed and all that merits are a couple of panels?

Selina is made to be unlikable on purpose. Man, old editors really don’t get that we like MJ and Selina and said romances with their respective boos.

The issue ends with a robot being activated in the bat cave. Let me guess, another bats backup plan backfires. We have never seen that before - execept for brother eye and bat’s take out justice league plan and azreal as his replacement and joker using Bruce’s weapons and fortune to kill thousands.

So Bruce is prepared for everything has no plan for getting his fortune back? But the new writer is going to show us he doesn’t need money. He will win in the end despite walking into trap after trap? His money isn’t being used to help people. So no charity or efforts to clean up public corruption. The dialog actually had bats saying Gotham wants to die. Man, talk about being depressing.

This issue is more dumb plotting and grim dark writing. We are shown again what a failure Bruce is. Things are worse than ever, and he had nothing. No Alfred, no Selina. He lost huge resources that could help thousands. His enemies do what they want.

The artis generic, and is it me or does Tim appear to be more thin and almost feminine?

I do not like this and the latest writer is just giving us more of the same. This is not the new, bold plot that he thinks it is.

This sucks.

Or I could be wrong.
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The old frame-up plot is literally 100 years old in illustrated stories.
I can't even count the number of times it was done to Batman.
But Canadian writer Chip Zdarsky and some reviewers believe it is fresh, new, and innovative.
Can't wait until they discover bell-bottom pants.

And of course, The Penguin would massacre the wealthy and then take poison (huge eyeroll). />Maybe The Joker can take a trip to Mars in the next issue.
You know this isn't Spider-Man, right, or the primarily Sci-Fi Marvel Comics?

If you enjoy it, great, it is your money and you have the right to spend it on whatever you want. Even the crazy 1950s Sci-Fi monsters that Batman of that age fought had some coherency in stopping crime for the most part. Here it is all suspend disbelief because we have a good artist. Like the Gotham comics haven't tried that for a good 10 years already. Worked so well.

One thing for certain: whether the writer is Mariko Tamaki or Chip Zdarsky, the Batman Gotham editors at DC are convinced that pitiful Batman Bruce Wayne is dumb as dirt. At some point, people will just drop off spending money on that attitude. Maybe it works for Spider-Man fans. But definitely not for long-time Batman fans. Bruce Wayne is really not Peter Parker... or Matt Murdoch. The dumb-guy Bruce Wayne storylines are really just grating.

And to Chip Zdarsky's comment: "How essential is money to Batman?"
Is Chip writing DC Comics for free now? Is WBD's DC Comics giving away their $5-$6/issue comics? Is the Gotham editorial team working for free now? And most of all Warner Bros Discovery, which is roughly $57,000,000,000 (yes, that's billion BTW) in debt... how essential is money to WBD?

Update - and - those claiming Daredevil is just a "Red Batman" - also from Chip Zdarsky, and I quote and source:
--- And from Chip Zdarsky himself:"They're VERY different characters. I can't even fathom thinking that they're close to the same. Like ... what about them is similar? I know I joke that they're two brooding guys on gargoyles, but really that's it for overt similarities!"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Daredevil/comments/vxeur4/comment/ifvwjs7/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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Ugh...Terrible writing. Hopefully the new writers will do better.

I stopped caring about this story line months ago...