I bought it, read it, and really disliked it. The only reason I'm buying Action Comics is to keep my collection complete as possible. The series itself has been bad for about 16 months now. I mean this current run makes Bendis look great by comparison.

Honestly... if you're buying something out of obligation like this, it's almost sadder than not reading it and review bombing it. 16 months? At $4.99 an issue? Count me out. Also, to think Bendis' run is better than this run is frankly absurd.

Thank you for the concern on how I spend my money, however completion of a run is important and I'm optimistic that things will improve eventually. Bendis at least understood the character of Superman and knew to keep stories short to appeal to a large audience. The formula is simple 3 stories that are 4 issues each that tie into a larger story arc to be resolved during the summer annual season. This is just banking on trade paperback sales. I understand their shift but I don't have to like it

...I mean, have you been out of comics since the late 90s? Cause that's when the trade paperbacks really began to play a role in the construction of stories in the ongoing titles. Bendis' run had long arcs, but they were incoherent, which is why you thought it didn't.

Can u explain why you feel nothing is happening in dark crisis

what were they trying to say with the ending? Was it that the parents argument that ept on following the child?

Now this is strictly my opinion, so it could be wrong. I took it that the dad/ the "broken home" is pretty much the monster. The dad was caught in the closet and instead of owning up to it he blamed it on the kid having nightmares. I just think the emotional distress the dad put on the family made the child's ideas get worse and thats why no matter what it followed them because, its pretty much the dad's crappy parenting that is leading the child to have these issues.

https://batman-news.com/2022/08/04/dark-crisis-3-review/

https://batman-news.com/2021/12/04/batman-2021-annual-1-a-very-special-review/

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So let's ban users if thier reviews aren't solid criticism...

It seems that you come off to this issue hating it. Also, Batman is fighting a literal robot that is way stronger and faster than him. Of course he's going to get beaten up, but he'll rise to defeat Failsafe.

@daspidaboy - how boring a world it would be if everyone all liked & disliked the same exact things. Different people have different opinions. Enjoy your comic. Please don't let me and my PERSONAL opinion hinder you.

Wouldn’t it be nice if Batman actually had a plan beyond “hit robot that is tougher and stronger than me to no effect.” I’d actually like seeing some of that world’s greatest detective in action, instead of world’s greatest bruiser. It would make for a nice change of pace.

@Quinn - agreed! this issue combined with the last issue where Batman bumbled his way into getting framed for murder makes him look like a complete idiot, let alone the world’s greatest detective. ...but i suppose Batman's intelligence level can only be as high as the person that's writing him.

You completely misunderstood why he mentioned Selina (and I hated the last 35 issues of kings run) ..... he was using it too show, how he wishes for better for the batfamily, and how he hopes they can oneday actually be happy, unlike him and his em never ending mission as batman.

@Batmanaholic - after Tynion did a damn good job of wiping the slate clean no writer should be re-heating any of Tom King's leftovers. Seriously, this entire run has had a blemish on it after Tom King put his hands on it. DC needs to just re-boot and forget that entire mess of Batman Rebirth had ever happened.

I do see your POV, and in the context of Batman's history, he shouldn't be pissy because of shitty storylines. I do think this was a lot worse during the King run, but I'm hoping Zdarsky exorcises this personality out so we can return to a more competent Batman. I personally think Bruce getting clapped up makes sense int he context since he got blindsided and is also still poor. I'm praying Zdarsky does Morrison pandering the right way (we've already seen it done badly by Williamson).

@SONOFBATMANN - absolutely. i had such high hopes for Williamson's Batman Inc arc. i wasn't exactly expecting Morrison levels of grandeur. but i did hope it'd at least respect Morrison's continuity. i just feel like Zdarsky rushed in the ZurEnArrh. in Batman RIP it was so moving to see Bruce stitch his ZEA suit. but here he pulls out a trunk, and there's a slick ZEA suit ready to go. it'd at least make more sense if it was the ragged stitched ZEA suit from RIP.

Very nice to read that commenter Quinn remembers Batman Bruce Wayne seeking "some of that world’s greatest detective in action." The reality is post-modern writers just simply don't understand and/or like Batman Bruce Wayne. Batman has dealt with all sorts of crises and threats since 1939. But to them, he is just an "old man" and they believe stunts will keep monthly readers, since coherent plot and respect for character not needed.

Agree with myconius - the "whiney-crybaby Batman" is very entertaining for those who never understood and didn't like the Batman Bruce Wayne character --- obviously very different from DareDevil - especially the past several decades of portrayal of Matt Murdock. But to some a costume is a costume.

@myconius - Agree 1000%. Especially: "Seriously, this entire run has had a blemish on it after Tom King put his hands on it. DC needs to just re-boot and forget that entire mess of Batman Rebirth had ever happened."

Bats20832 - Thank you. I think that unfortunately many new Batman readers that jumped on at TheNew52 (and afterward) really had gotten a poor iteration of Batman. I’d say this current version of Batman is actually worse than the paranoid and psychotic Batman from back in Tower of Babel and War Games/War Crimes. Batman became a meathead bruiser in the hands of Scott Snyder. And he only further devolved with Tom King.

Bats20832 - Agreed! I’m not a fan of reboots. But honestly so much damage was done to Batman after Tom King put his stink on the character. His is the most pathetic version of the character I’ve ever seen. Batman was inspired by so many great fictional characters like Zorro and Sherlock Holmes. In the Bronze age they even started taking influence from James Bond to make Batman even cooler. But now he’s just a sad, weak, emotionally unstable basket case. They really need to fix the character.

"But nothing really happens." You do know thats called build-up right? We will know who Failsafe is in later issues.

That’s my point. I am not reading the later issues, I am reading the now issue. There has to be something going on now that matters. There have to be stakes in this issue. Or I could be wrong.

Batman is getting his face caved in by a giant robot, the Batfamily has to come save him and then are demolished themselves. That's pretty high stakes. Then he resorts to using another unstable failsafe program. That matters. The complaint of set up issues having nothing of substance is getting ridiculous when this is normal practice in comics now. Stories are told over longer arcs that have payoff an issue or two later so they give you an action heavy issue to put the protagonist at a low point

Not high stakes, predictable cliches that show no clever plotting or characterization. Or I could be wrong.