some good stories, some not so good. did not feel this was worth the $10 plus tax i spent on it. it still was much better than Detective Comics 1000. Chuck Dixon and Marv Wolfman were the highlights of the book.

***Cons*** -Goofy Anime-looking art (Batman looks ridiculous) -Too Subversive (This was built for the first time read. i doubt the twists will hold up upon re-reads) -Too Deconstructive (There is only so much you can bend and deconstruct characters before they are NO LONGER the same character. I'll avoid going into spoilers, but you'll know who I'm referring to right from the start of the comic) -Yet another Brutal Batman that kills (At least this killer-Batman is different in that he stabs and hacks his enemies to bloody bits) -SOOOO EDGY!!! (I am sick and tired of grimdark edgelord comics) ***Pros*** -At least its not by Tom King -Thankfully not by Chip Zdarsky either -At least this Batman doesn't weigh a buck and change, and have to wear armor to compensate. -Thankfully Scott Snyder refrained from making this as overly-wordy as his prior Batman writing. -At least this Batman hasn't killed anyone with a gun (At least not yet) -There might have been another positive? I just can't think of it right now. I'm going to try re-reading this at some point and see if i feel differently about it later.

I'm no fan of cross-over/tie-in events. But the premise of this did pique my curiosity. Unfortunately I didn't find anything in this comic to convince me to invest is the large list of multiple titles spanning several issue across the next few months. The only portion that I'm planning to read are the Superman tie-ins by Joshua Williamson. Other than that I'll more than likely skip the rest of this event.

Dan Jurgens may have let the conclusion of his Lois and Clark series fall flat, but his first issue back on Action Comics COMPLETELY made up for it!!! . . . . . . . . an explosive issue that has me completely excited for the next issue!!!

fun action packed issue, but it felt really short.

sadly didn't carry the momentum of the first 2 issues. . . . . . . . . there's still room for hope. . . . . . . this story will probably read better as a trade? . . . . . . . probably???

i think some of the reviewers are being needlessly harsh on this series. this is definitely an enjoyable read. i likw where the story is going and am excited for more!

overall this story started pretty decent but now it's really starting to get pretty laughable. . . . . . some really silly dialog. . . . . i don't mind some cartoony writing once in a while, but don't get ridiculous now!!!!! . . . . . . . . this issue is also suffering from some rushed art. . . . . . . and as great as the new 'Superwoman' series is, please don't force it into 'Action Comics'! every comic title should be able to stand on it's own merit. . . . . . . last thing i'll say is, if you want a REALLY good laugh?? then look at how Superman's face is drawn in the panel where he says- "--CAN'T-- R--RUN--!" . . . . . . what the HECK is that THING??? . . . . . . . i know these folks are rushed for time with the bi-weekly deadline, i'm sorry! i truly am! but THIS is just horrendous!!!! . . . . . . . the story did pick up towards the end, but the whole thing just felt WAY too rushed!!!! . . . . . . i said it before and i'll say it again . . . . . this bi-weekly schedule is just a REALLY BAD idea!!!! . . . . . you get everyone hooked into a quick release schedule, but then the quality really starts to suffer . . . . . . BADLY! . . . . . . . comic writers/artists/etc... are human beings. . . . . they aren't meant to be run like machines!! . . . . even machines when pushed to the limit eventually break down!

i don't know what happened? . . . . . . . . . . Dan Jurgens was really hitting it out of the park, but now this series is REALLY dragging, with no satisfying pay-off. . . . . . . . i have hope that he'll get the series back on track. . . . . . . . . . . it's just not happening yet. . . . . . . . . . this story raised too many questions, and didn't answer any of them.

finally is starting to get interesting again. . . . . . . . . nothing amazing. . . . . . . . but was fun. . . . . . . . . still didn't answer any questions about the new 'Clark Kent'.

finally a very enjoyable issue in this series. . . . . . . probably one of the best so far since it's started. . . . . . . . . i had to lower my score a bit since this issue STILL DID NOT answer ANY of the questions that it has raised about this "New Clark Kent"!!!!! . . . . . . . nor did it REALLY explain his relationship to the New52 Superman!!!! . . . . . i've read the entire run of (New52) Superman as well as the entire (New52) Action Comics!!! and i can tell you that this explanation is BALONEY!!!!!! . . . . . . . . there's ABSOLUTELY NO WAY this "New" Clark's story is actually true!!!! (unless the New52 Superman's history is being retconned?) . . . . . . . i did like Jurgens few pokes at the New52 Superman's expense and raising up the Pre-flashpoint Superman. . . . . . . . . . i don't have to say just how cheap it was that (pre-flashpoint) Superman just so happens to have a McGuffin 'Orb of Truth' or whatever it's called, stored in the Fortress of Solitude. . . . . . . very very convenient!!

this one issue probably did more Justice for New 52 Lois Lane that any issue of Superman, or Action Comics, Superman Unchained, etc... during the entire New 52 & DC You era.

alright enough issue. . . . . . some decent dialog between Superman and Son. . . . . i particularly liked when Jonathan was asking his father about why he didn't go back to one of his former suits, and why the one had red undies on the outside. Superman's explanaition was actually quite cool. . . . . so far Godslayer isn't doing much for me. . . . . . . at least we finally see what the outcome would turn into from Lex Luthor using the Mother Box that he had taken from Apocalypse back in Johns run of Justice League. hopefully something actually comes of it and it doesn't just get disregarded.

firstly i'd like to say just how MUCH i really enjoy Tyler Kirkham's art!!!
the Godslayers aren't the most well developed or interesting characters, but Kirkham really makes them look GREAT!! Superman looks amazing as well!!!

i really have to give the writers credit for making me feel compassionate towards Lex. we've all been waiting to see Lex get taken down from his false Superman'hood. but i wasn't expecting something like this. i'm not sure if the Godslayer's prophecies are false? but this really does get you thinking about the morals of the dilemma!!
and the end really has me wondering about this Mystery Clark Kent. having read all the New52 Superman & Action Comics issues since #1, i don't trust his origin or claims one bit!

young Jonathan in his eagerness may have also compromised his father and mother's secret identities to the Mystery Clark as well?
i'm actually starting to get excited about this series again!

we know how this is going to end up play out, but this has been a pretty intriguing direction Dan Jurgens has chosen to go in.
it'll actually be pretty funny if(when) Superman's decision ends up blowing up in his face!
not sure if anybody else feels the same way? but are the Godslayer's a little bit on the boring side?

it’s good to finally have the Mystery of the ‘Clark Kent’ Doppleganger solved!!
just wish i didn’t have to disrupt the order of my collection just to complete the story. but that’s neither here nor there.
it IS engaging even if the main story feels heavily spread out just to fill up pages.
and Superman comes off as pretty dense too. that aside, the (SPOILER WITHHELD) reveal was very cool!!!
i have to say with how short both this issue's main story and Superman issue #18 feel.... it feels to me that they just took one comic’s worth of story and spread it across two separate titles?

and as neat as the idea for Paul Dini’s back-up story was, i really wish we could have just moved the plot of the main story a bit further.
HECK!! even the back-up story to me felt unnecessarily spread out!
i was already irked by the cross-over extortion tactics to begin with…
just to get an issue that feels padded out so they could squeeze the price up to $3.99.

the writing was alright, the art ... pretty damn phenomenal!!! price tag might seem steep, but this book is really packed full! absolutely worth it for what you get!!

aye yai yai!!! . . . . . typical Snyder Cider drivel!!! he must really HATE Alfred Pennyworth??? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thankfully once this run is over Snyder will leave Batman for good so he can move over and ruin another character! . . . . . . . . . . . . many people don't like John Romita Jr's art, but i for one really enjoy it. i will say thou that his art that he did for this issue does look like a step backward from the art he had done for the Kick-Ass and Hit Girl series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . anyway, once Romita is done then i'll thankfully not have to drink down another bitter cup of nasty (and overpriced) Snyder Cider ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Snyder, please stop re-using that damn 'Mirror' analogy! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . between use stories as well as in interviews, that guy has beaten the 'Dark Reflection' analogy TO DEATH long ago! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and why would Commissioner Gordon be foolish enough to almost stick his hand in Acid?

One of Morrison & Quitely's best collaborations. this is probably one of my favorite superman stories i've ever read. the portrayal of Clark Kent/Superman is absolutely perfect! there's also a very nice set-up for DC One Million if you've ever read it. it's not necessary that you do, but it does add a nice layer if you get the reference.

This series is the discount version of George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM. But whereas Orwell's story was a timeless and brilliant work of art, tom king's poor attempt is nothing more utter rubbish! The real crime here is they wasted paper and ink on this.

This is utter dog sh*t!!! (pun intended) Stay away from this Poor Wannabe Animal Farm. Orwell was a master. King is just a booger eater.

This has been on of the (VERY) few monthly titles by DC that's actually been enjoyable.

Batman #700 (giant sized anniversary edition) is a magnificent comic. it spans many eras of Batman's history, past present and future. it even has nods to Batman One Million from Morrison's JLA run. a copy of Batman #700 could cost as much or more than what the TPB 'Time & the Batman' costs, so it might be more economical to buy the collected edition. with beautiful art by Tony Daniel, Frank Quitely, Andy Kubert, and David Finch it's definitely worth a read.

i find this story is absolutely addicting!!! never once have i read this book without having finished it, then having to start it all over from the beginning at least one or two more times. usually i read this story cover to cover in a series of three. don't know? ....maybe i have Batman RIP OCD? the story follows the club of villains as they plot to sabotage Batman and pervert all that he holds sacred. Grant has brilliantly written the villain Simon Hurt into Batman's 75 year history, as well as pull references from almost every era and event of Batman's comic publication. this is Batman written at his finest! others have often tried to imitated this, but have never even come close to replicating it. in Grant's own words- "i wanted to create the ultimate Batman." me personally, i say he truly did! Tony Daniel does his best to keep up with Grant. his art was still a bit rough back then, but he does a serviceable job of it.

Batman #700 (giant sized anniversary edition) is a magnificent comic. it spans many eras of Batman's history, past present and future. it even has nods to Batman One Million from Morrison's JLA run. a copy of Batman #700 could cost as much or more that what this trade costs, so it's definitely worth the money. plus with beautiful art by Tony Daniel, Frank Quitely, Andy Kubert, and David Finch it's definitely worth it. Batman issues #701 & #702 contain the Lost Chapters of Batman RIP. these are definitely worth the purchase and read, as they clear up some of the confusion for what happens in-between Batman RIP and Final Crisis. there are wonderful character moments between Bruce & Alfred, and Tony Daniel's art is Top notch here. i'd love to give this collection a "9.5" or a "9". but the inclusion of Batman issue #703 being clumsily tossed in here brings the score down. whenever i read this volume i never bother to read #703. reading the single issue when it was in my pull-list was more than enough. and all that issue is, is a set up for 'Batman The Road Home' which in itself was a superfluous unnecessary cash-grab by DC just tacking on as many add-ons to 'The Return of Bruce Wayne' event. if something in the even wasn't written by Morrison then don't bother.

one Batman story i can never get tired of re-reading. very well written (though not entirely perfect) there's a few glaring things i wasn't thrilled about. this is still a fantastic story, and worthy of being called essential reading. all the scenes with Gordon facing the corruption withing the GCPD are very well written. Det. Flass is probably one of the best antagonist characters that Miller has ever come up with. there aren't nearly enough scenes with Bruce Wayne/Batman to be honest. though when he finally does appear he's great! though Miller's Batman takes himself a little too seriously. Miller did his best to try to kill of the last remaining remnants of fun of the Bronze age Batman to usher in the Modern age version of the character. not a good choice, if you ask me. Miller also really doesn't utilize Alfred or his charms. this is a shame, because there lies a great dynamic, and character for Bruce to play off of. Miller going too heavy with his grimdark version of Batman. "CAN'T HAVE NO FUN! THAT WOULDN'T BE EDGY!" i also really wish that Frank Miller hadn't turned Selina into a dominatrix. it's very degrading to her character. other than those points, the art is absolutely magnificent! it has a pulpy gritty Noir feel, that's the right blend of realism and cartoonish. the colors are also spectacular. if you can, get the old Deluxe Edition. the fairly recent release had the colors muddied.

Grant Morrison’s Batman is one of the best Batman runs i’ve ever read. this deluxe sized omnibus is the best possible format to read it in. the book is nicely constructed with stitched binding and thick quality pages. the paper is a very heavy stock that is slightly glossy but not too overly glossy. the color printing is also more vibrant than previous editions of Batman&Son and BatmanRIP. It has no new bonus content other than an introduction by Mike Marts. Tony Daniel’s variant covers for Batman #676-#683 are now at the back of the book along with Adam Kubert’s variant cover for Batman #655. the omnibus collects all the issues from ‘Batman & Son’, ‘The Black Glove’ and ‘Batman RIP’ as well as an abridged version of issues #30 & #47 from the ’52’ series, scenes of Bruce Wayne undergoing the Thögal ritual in the caves of Nanda Parbat. exclusive to this omnibus are two brand new pages written and drawn by Chris Burnham. these new pages fill in events for ‘The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul’ and save you from having to read a drawn out cross-over event where only two of the issues were actually written by Morrison. there are two pages of excerpts from ‘Final Crises’ bracketing Batman issues #682 & #683 ‘Final Crisis: Last Rites’. these excerpts set up the events of ‘Final Crisis: Last Rites’ and give actual context as to what’s going on. aside from the lack of new bonus content, this is still one of my most favorite omnibuses i own both in content and in presentation. this is the first of 3 volumes that will collect all of Grant Morrison’s entire Batman run. if you are already a fan of this run, it is absolutely worth the money of the double dip. if you have never read the run before but are a fan of Batman, then you’ll definitely want to check this book out. it’s the definitive way to read Grant Morrison’s Batman.

Grant Morrison’s Batman is one of the best Batman runs i’ve ever read. this deluxe sized omnibus finally gives us the Definitive reading order for Grant Morrison’s Batman. Batman & Robin 1-16, The Return of Bruce 1-6, and Batman 700-702 have been printed in chronological reading order for the first time ever! the Bonus Content from the original collected editions has all been reprinted within this Omnibus. The main & variant covers are printed just before each chapter. definitely check out Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol. 1 if you haven’t already. This book picks up where that one left off. The story begins with Dick Grayson (the very first, and original Robin) has taken up the mantle of Batman. Bruce Wayne has been missing and is presumed dead. Bruce’s Son, Damian who was introduced in Omnibus Vol. 1 takes up the mantle of Robin. This presents a very unique dynamic between Batman & Robin, as now we have a lighthearted, optimistic Batman clashing with a grim and brooding Robin. There are a lot of growing pains along the way. Alfred Pennyworth really shines in this series, as he adds some much needed guidance for our two heroes. Within these stories you really come to love Alfred, as he is the very heart and soul of the Bat-Family. The Dynamic between Batman & Robin isn’t the only thing that has changed. Commissioner Gordon can tell that there’s something different about Batman & Robin, and is uncertain if he can trust them or not. We are introduced to an all-new Bat-mobile that we saw early in development in the first Morrison Batman Omnibus. Grant has also penned some new villains for our heroes to face, as well as some classic Rogues Gallery. the reading sequence is as follows- Batman & Robin #1 Batman & Robin #2 Batman & Robin #3 Batman & Robin #4 Batman & Robin #5 Batman & Robin #6 Batman & Robin #7 Batman & Robin #8 Batman & Robin #9 Batman #700 Batman & Robin #10 Return of Bruce Wayne #1 Batman & Robin #11 Return of Bruce Wayne #2 Batman & Robin #12 Return of Bruce Wayne #3 Batman #701 Batman #702 Batman & Robin #13 Return of Bruce Wayne #4 Batman & Robin #14 Return of Bruce Wayne #5 Batman & Robin #15 Return of Bruce Wayne #6 Batman & Robin #16

This Omnibus is better than the Absolute edition, in both content and quality. The stitching seems more secure in this Omnibus than it does in my copy of the Absolute edition. The pages of my Absolute edition are starting to come loose. Whereas my GM Batman Omni Vol. 1 (Sept 2018) and Omni vol. 2 (June 2019) are still holding up strong. And this GM Batman Omni Vol. 3 looks like the same great sturdy quality of the previous two Omnis. Thankfully (unlike the Absolute Batman Incorporated) this book actually has bonus material. Not just bonus material from Batman Inc Deluxe Edition, but they added bonus material for the New 52 portion of the run. The original New 52 releases in HC & TPB had only included a variant cover gallery. Now we have NEW extra content by Chris Burnham as well as Grant Morrison. This Omnibus also includes Batman The Return (One-Shot) that was illustrated by David Finch. If you haven’t already, you’re definitely going to want to pick up Batman by Grant Morrison volumes 1 & 2. I try my best to not go into heavy spoiler territory in my reviews, as I know there are folks new to this run. I will say that since Grant Morrison’s Batman run began, he has built up events that have come full circle in this final volume. Batman is investigating a Global Terrorist organization called Leviathan. They have been showing up just about everywhere, and infesting everything. Batman enlists the help of the Batmen of All Nations, and starts recruiting his own Army of Batmen around the world to combat Leviathan. If you’ve read Batman Incorporated in single issue form and collected trade as I have, you will have seen that towards the New52 portion of the run that there are pages that used fill-in artists. It was a bit jarring to be enjoying Chris Burnham’s unique style, then suddenly be reading pages illustrated by other artists. We were treated to Chris Burnham going back to draw all the pages, that he previously was unable to for the Absolute Edition. Thankfully this book includes all the redrawn Burham pages that were done for the Absolute. Chris Burham also redrew into the flashback scenes that referenced the 70’s Batman stories. When Batman Inc was published during the New 52, events from classic 70s Batman comics were made to show Batman wearing his New52 costume. Now they are redrawn with Batman as intended with the 70s Blue Cape and Cowl, and classic Yellow Oval as intended. Many fans were unsure if this Omnibus would also include Batman Inc issue #11 written by Chris Burham, as well as the Batman Incorporated Special written by guest writers. Rest assured they both are included within this book. This Omnibus has been printed in a beautiful Deluxe size. The binding, stitching and page quality all look solid and secure. The page color actually looks more vibrant than previous releases. The paper is a nice semi-gloss stock. Nice and easy on the eyes. Grant Morrison’s Batman run is my all-time favorite Batman story ever. This spanning saga has so many layers. It gets better with every re-read. I discover some hidden detail that I’d not noticed before. Revelations within this book actually change the way certain events from earlier portions of Morrison's Batman run are perceived. All I can say is, if you’re willing to invest the time in Grant Morrison’s Batman run, there’s a good chance that you’ll fall in love with it just as I have. You will find that you want to return and begin again, and enjoy many re-reads.

I've been buying these and holding them to the side so that i can binge read them in one sitting. God, how i hope that the years long wait was worth it!!!

this did NOT feel like what we'd seen in these movies. it feels like they are trying to take the world of the Michael Keaton Batman movies and make it feel more typical of Batman of the comics. then what was the point of revisiting this universe in the first place? did not care for the art at all. something very awkward about it.

a missed opportunity to tell a good origin story for the New 52 Batman. this issue was just a teaser for the upcoming and long-winded 'Batman: Zero Year' arc. nice art, but very forgettable issue.

i've been reading and collecting this series since the very beginning of the New 52, and wanted to now take a look back at it and see what made me fall in love with it in the first place. this issue starts off with Scott Snyder's usual run-on exposition ... that can either captivate you into a dark world of intrigue ... or sometimes just bore you to tears. the very first time i read it, i was among the highly captivated. we are immediately placed inside Arkham Asylum in what looks like Batman about to face off a great number of the most notorious inmates ...and then the melee begins!!! Greg Capullo shows off his beautiful sense of action and eye for drama in this scene. had this been story-board for and action based anime or even movie, it'd be one of the most amazing things any Batman fan has ever seen!!! i will give Scott Snyder Credit, the plot twist during the Arkham brawl was very clever and really fun to revisit during many many re-reads!!! i WANT to give this a perfect 10. but truthfully i know i can't, as in my many re-reads i just find too many parts needlessly TOO wordy for no reason at all! that whole 'Gotham's Tomorrow is just a Dream away' or what ever mumbo jumbo Bruce Wayne is spouting at the fund-raiser scene is just PAINFUL! still the personalities of the members of the Bat-family scenes are spot on! even though Snyder's voice for Batman can at times make Bruce come off as a snotty little brat. still though, it's a very good issue overall. and is worth checking out for Greg Capullo's visual story-telling alone. what's always struck me as funny about this series as a whole, is both reviewers and users love to throw 'PERFECT TENS' at this series! and they probably have NO idea why? i used to be one of them till after reading a few of issues that Greg Capullo didn't provide the art for, that Snyder's writing wasn't as good as i once thought it was?

another great issue but here's where the story really begins to get muddled with TOO MUCH exposition!!!! we start off the story with Bruce Wayne thrown out a window and headed for what looks like certain death. but before we get to the 'BIG SPLAT' the story jumps to earlier when Batman is in the midst of pursuit on the Bat-cycle chasing a Helicopter. Batman is driving on elevated train tracks to catch them, but i'm really not sure why the pilot doesn't just take the Helicopter straight up to escape? anyway, Batman (on his cycle) and the Helicopter pilot get into a game of 'chicken' and there's a very cool splash page of crashing through the windshield of the Helicopter. as the story continues the reader must endure pages filled with tons of Scott Snyder 'run-on' exposition, until we are brought back up to speed with Bruce Wayne plunging to his death. it seems like things are over the the Dark Knight? ...BUT WAIT!!! ...there's a hidden gargoyle constructed on the building that NO ONE knew about!!! this seems very impressive and clever the first time you read it, but how is it that out of the 360 degrees that Bruce was thrown out of the top of the sky scraper that he just happened to falling RIGHT towards that hidden gargoyle??? ok! so it's only a dumb comic book! ... FINE! i can give you that! ... but DON'T go throwing glowing scores of 'TEN' at it!!! still, the artwork is the real attraction here. and as long as Greg Capullo is drawing it, then there's something for me to enjoy here!

Scott Snyder starts the issue with a flashback of Gotham City in the year of 1922 with a character we don't really know being chased, but boy does he look terrified! ... poor guy! ...OK! where were we again?? ... jump Forward to Batman down in the subways fighting the Whisper Gang (a gang we'll probably never hear from again?) the Whisper Gang wear these metal face masks. probably for no other reason but to have Batman throw a high powered magnet at the passing train just so all of Whisper Gang's masks can get magnetized and stick them all to the train? still though Greg Capullo's visual compositions of the fight sequence were absolutely beautiful! and Jonathan Glapion's heavy use of bold shadows really adds a beautiful feeling of mirth and grit to the mood! after two very dialog heavy scenes, Batman is in pursuit of his suspect 'The Court of Owls' a criminal organization that has been operating out of Gotham since before Batman was EVEN born. but Batman had absolutely NO idea they really existed!!! (World's Greatest Detective, my foot!) even worse is while investigating one of the Court of Owls "Secret Lairs" that's been hiding the WHOLE time in "Our VERY Homes", Batman stumbles over a trip wire like a rank armature and sets off a booby-trap causing the building to blow up! ... The End.

last issue we saw Batman clumsily stepping on a tripwire booby-trap, causing the building he was in to blow up. but he we find that Batman is STILL alive, and STILL intact! ....in FACT, Scott Snyder goes on this WHOLE inner monologue from Batman about how the danger of a tripwire is NOT in the blast, but in the feeling of helplessness it instills in it's victim! ...REALLY??? tell that to all the poor souls who lost their legs (or lives) stepping on tripwires in all the wars over the years!!!! and this whole mumbo jumbo monologue is going on while Batman is trying to escape a fiery death!!! ((and_i_quote))-->> "Most people assume the danger of a tripwire lies in the blast. Not so. The real threat from a tripwire comes later ... in the aftermath. The truth is, a tripwire is a greater instrument of FEAR than of violence. It demoralizes everyone in range, suggesting that the enemy knows the terrain better than you do, that this is their home, and they're everywhere at once ... ready to bear down at any moment. In Gotham, there is an old nursery rhyme about the Court of Owls. A group of men who, the rhyme goes, rule the city from the shadows and enforce their will by means of an assassin named the TALON ... a highly trained killer the Court keeps hidden in bases around the city. Tonight, I discovered a series of bases, seeming to date back to the 19thth century--bases hidden in buildings constructed by my own family, the WAYNES. I was inspecting this, one the most recent, when the tripwire went off. Lucky for me ... I don't scare easily." <<--((end_quote)) ... REALLY SNYDER??? a deadly trap isn't really dangerous?? sure! ..the issue ends with Batman trapped in the Court of Owls underground labyrinth.

continuing in Scott Snyder's story of a Bungling Batman who tramples over tripwires and STILL manages to come out of it ON TOP because of no other reason but because he's BATMAN. we pick up with Batman trapped in the Court of Owl's labyrinth. he's been drugged, starved and is starting to crack. (this reminds me an AWFUL LOT of Batman: The Cult) ....the scenes are Beautifully penciled by Greg Capullo, and inked fantastically by Jonathan Glapion. but for what ever reason Snyder and Capullo chose to throw in the novelty of having to rotate the pages so you have to turn the comic upside-down are beyond me?? sure it was a neat trick on the first read? but on re-reads it's honestly pretty annoying!!! so Batman continues to aimlessly wanted the maze completely LOST, until he finally starts screaming like a little child- "I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU!" ...and at that point an assassin sneaks up behind him and stabs a long dagger through Batman's lower back, that comes RIGHT out of his guts! ... but don't worry folks, i'm sure Scott Snyder will pull some sort of baloney out of his butt to make everything turn out ok for Batman next issue? ......(p.s. ...he does!)

in Scott Snyder's last Batman issue we saw Batman receive what should be a fatal stab-wound from a deadly assassin, and now is mercilessly getting his butt kicked by 'said assassin'. it's a very very VERY drawn out scene of Batman getting pummeled, all the while he should be bleeding to death from his stab wound. but LOOK! just when thing look completely hopeless ... when by all right this should be the Death of Batman!!! ... all of the sudden Batman gets a jolt of confidence that hurls him to victory, when just moments before he was at the brink of death!!! ok! Snyder, now you're just being completely silly!!!! i give Greg Capullo credit! the scene of Batman getting his second wind is drawn in an excellent stylized way to symbolized Batman's hallucination of becoming 'beast-like' in the heat of battle. it's completely ridiculous to the point of decimating suspension of belief to a bloody pulp, but it's drawn really really cool! Batman pulls yet another unbelievable escape out of his rear-end, but land himself submerges under freezing cold waters with no air! how will he escape this time? Scott Snyder's over-use of deadly cliff hanger endings are starting to become VERY VERY tiresome!

in the last issue Scott Snyder had Batman drowning in freezing cold waters, only to have him hallucinating as his heart is jump-started by a trendy Emo-chick named Harper Row using a car battery. Batman somehow knows this person? did i miss something? who is she? i've never heard of her before! not a very good introduction. Batman makes his way back home in shambles, Alfred probably mends all Bruce's mortal wounds to the point of "he's gonna be A-OK" and we then get a visit from Nightwing who starts yelling at Batman for no other reason so that we can have Batman backfist Nightwing in the mouth!!! ... but Batman had a reason for punching Nightwing in the face! he just so happened to punch out the EXACT tooth in Nightwing's mouth that was hiding a small coin-like conductor that the Court of Owls secretly placed inside Nightwing's tooth when he was a small child! ok! this is too much!!! .... i can't stand to re-read this nonsense any more!!! ... from here on out, i'm just going to flip though and enjoy Greg Capullo's beautiful artwork! the story is laughable!

at this point the comic series gets thinned out with less actual story and a back-up story as filler. probably just so they could spread out this already overdrawn arc? ...and look! ...now we have a set up for a cross-over event and tie-ins!!!! don't miss a single issue of this cash grab cross-over event kids! the stories won't be completely superfluous and unnecessary to the main series!

some very cool action sequences from Batman in his (Capullo designed) Bat-mech versus the Court of Owl's assassins. this series needs to just let Greg Capullo continue go to town with his awesome art, and not be so bogged down with all the mumbo jumbo baloney that Scott Snyder writes.

these are some of my ALL time favorite panels of Greg Capullo's artwork!!! great action! great composition! ... they just look FRIKKEN COOOOOOL!!!!!! ...annnnd then we get to all the dialog heavy pages of mumbo jumbo that Scott Snyder is famous for! ...Blah! Blah Blah!!!! .... at least the issue ends with a very awesome looking splash page!!!

this is IT!!! the final confrontation between Batman and the secret foe he has been searching for since the beginning of this overly drawn out story arc!!! this fight should be awesome!!! ... but what's this??? TONS of talking and dialog during a heated death match??? Snyder, just shush your mouth so we can enjoy Greg Capullo's art in peace already!!! honestly, i have never seen so many over-inflated word bubbled in ALL MY LIFE!!!! and yet another thin issue that needed to be padded out with a back-up story to fill up the comic! there were a few cool moments that let Capullo's art really shine! .... but at least this exhausting overdrawn arc is finally over with!!!

oh boy!!! a WHOLE Batman story without any Batman in it! just doofy ol' Harper Row and her derpy brother Cullen! ....Yayyyyyyyyy! and even MORE painful is that it's NOT draw by Greg Capullo! this is the first i've ever seen the art of Becky Cloonan, but it really doesn't impress me at all! in fact thanks to this issue lacking the delicious sugar coating of Capullo's art was the very first time i realized that this Scott Snyder guy ain't the genius writer everyone claims him to be! when Batman finally shows up it's the worst looking Batman art i've seen in any comic! towards the end of the comic the art duties switch to a different artist. judging by the art-style it looks like Gary Frank? he's definitely a step up in art chops, but his trying to emulate a Capullo-type look into his own style looks a bit off to me. after i read this comic when it first came out i wanted to cry!

i've been ecitedly waiting for the Joker's return to the New 52 since Tony Daniel's cliffhanger ending of Detective Comics #1 !! ....and i honestly don't know how to feel about this? for one the art though still beautiful looks to be a bit rushed? and the story is maybe even MORE wordy than it's EVER been!!! and can the Joker really just walk through a darkened police station and just kill all the trained police officers inside with his bare hands???? and this issue is also padded with back-up story filler.

at least there is slightly better art in this issue, but there is WAY too much dialog!!! we get to see Nightwing in the issue so that is always adds a point to the score! this issue is padded out by a back-up story to fill up space at the end.

so Batman has suspected that Joker may know the location of the Bat-cave this WHOLE time? and in turn Joker could also know Batman is really Bruce Wayne? and this whole time Batman has done absolutely nothing about it? ...Batman ...are you a complete idiot?

despite some very beautiful art panels by Greg Capullo this story is not grabbing me the way that i'd hoped it would! Joker has been reduced to a second-rate version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. and Batman is just a complete bungling idiot!!! these two characters, Batman and the Joker are both my ALL-TIME favorite comic characters!!! they are both facing off in what is being touted as the MUST READ COMIC OF THE YEAR!!! ... i SHOULD be loving this??? ... but i am not ..... it's just .......Meh. ....AND ... yet again DC uses this opportunity to cash grab it's readers into buying into another cross-over event hosted by their star writer Scott Snyder. ...get out your nickels and dimes everyone!!!

wow! ... look! .... all of the members of the Bat-family have bloody bandages over their faces and are sitting in front of their severed faces on ice. ... did anyone else see right through the fact that all the faces on ice were fake? .....the story goes out with a whimper. and is thankfully is over! unfortunately we will be plagued for years to come by fan art images and cos-play of Joker as this second-rate Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip off!

great! so Damian Wayne/Robin is dead and now Harper Row is trying to step up as Batman's faithful sidekick? ........no! ........just NO!!!! at least Andy Kubert's art candy-coats this awful bitter pill! GET LOST, Harper!!!! ...YOU STINK!!!! ...at least it was worth it to see Batman tell off Harper, and in so many words let her know "it ain't gonna happen!"

a goofy little two-issue arc staring Clayface. i think Snyder wrote himself into a corner by making Clayface WAY too powerful and dangerous in this. Clayface gets an ability in this story that quickly gets forgotten about throughout all of the other Batman titles across The New 52.

so batman defeats Clayface's new ability to read a person's DNA from touch by wearing a clear coat of plastic over his face. but why does Clayface know to freak out Batman by transforming into the likeness of Damian Wayne? and why does no-one witnessing Batman's freak-out question why Batman would be so upset by this? GO AHEAD PEOPLE!!! .... continue throwing heaps of praise at this series!!! ....suck up all that hype!

Zero Year is off to a very slow and unexciting start! many of my friends that were also reading this series started dropping the Snyder/Capullo Batman title. .... at the time i have NO idea why? i was SO blinded by all the hype. but re-reading this stuff, i just can't get myself to care about any of it.

Zero Year continues to sputter along. and while it's cool to finally see Bruce doing some vigilante action, the issue is still WAY too over-burdened with wordy dialog. the argument between Bruce and Alfred is just WAY too over the top! Bruce acts like a complete and utter jerk to Alfred just so we'd have a reason for Alfred to slap Bruce's face. ....yawn.

the story jumps around and then we finally get to see a swiped scene from Frank Miller's Batman Year One re-hashed, and re-told not nearly as well. to say that this issue was very disappointing is an understatement!

FINALLY we get to see Bruce Wayne don the cape and cowl and become The Batman!!!! i really enjoyed the homage that this bat-suit payed to the Golden-age first appearance of Batman under the script of Bill Finger and drawn by Bob Kane (or what ever secret artists that Kane might have had helping him at the time?) ... THIS is the issue out of the WHOLE overblown, drawn-out, overstayed_it's_welcome Zero Year that i have read over and over and over!!! and while there was a LOT of pay-off in this issue, there was also a LOT of typical over-wordy dialog that has pained me in this series from the beginning!!!! ....please just SHUT UP Snyder!!!! let Greg Capullo's art have the spot-light!!! there are some absolutely beautiful action sequences at the end of the issue, but not enough for my taste! and during the action Red Hood's goons just can't shut up!! .....Scott Snyder must be thinking to himself - "Gee these action sequences don't have enough word balloons on them? here! let me just FIX that!" (BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!)

this story was a HOT MESS!!! i was thrilled that the Joker was back and we were promised the Batman/Joker story to END all stories!!! this arc was AWFUL! it was all over the place, Snyder wasted so many pages of useless info dumping, and the finale was just ...... empty! this used to be my favorite DC title, but Snyder's stories are getting worse and worse. another thing- Scott Snyder, why don't you just let Capullo's art tell the story JUST once in a while??? are you such an ego maniac that you need to jam fill every single panel with as many run on paragraphs as you possibly can? some times you just need to shut your big mouth and let the artist do his thing!!! i DO NOT RECOMMEND!

muddling tripe! not the Mr Bloom origin we were promised! a big sob story about a poor boy who gets killed, and Batman runs around like a blind idiot trying to solve the case! i haven't seen such red herring bad detective work from Batman since 'Batman Eternal' definitely NOT worth the $4.99 cover price! just awful!

without a proper origin or explanation of Mr Bloom's powers it's very difficult to suspend disbelief! and as Bloom even kills his own henchmen at the bat of an eye with great ease, it makes no sense why he just hasn't killed (or maimed) Gordon yet? Capullo's art as always is the highlight of the book.

a pretty solid issue. i enjoyed some of the themes they were playing with, it had a but of a surreal psychedelic feel going on at parts. i admire what they were trying to get across, but something was losing impact in the translation. but still the overall emotion that they were hinting at came across, even if it wasn't perfect. very interested to seeing where this all goes next month!

as much as i absolutely LOVE Batman, i'm just happy that this is finally over with!!!! ...there was a time when i wanted Snyder and Capullo stay of this series forever! now i really think it's more than time that they had a break! Capullo's art looks cool, but it just looks like he's burned out from the whole thing? ..... as for the writing??? .... the writing just reads like some teenage fan-fiction written by a kid who's seen Nolan's 'Dark Knight' one TOO many times!!! ....typical overly verbose comic for no real reason at all! .... i am NOT going to miss Snyder's rambling writing style!!! ................. ......thanks guys! ....it's definitely had it's moments!!! ........... ............... ........ ........ ......... ....... .........OH! BTW ..... the new Bat-suit ......HOLY POLYESTER SUIT BATMAN!! ... it looks frikken TERRIBLE!!!!!

after re-reading the issue a couple of times i feel i have to drop the score a bit. it's a pretty lukewarm issue, where nothing really happens. sure it's supposed to be a quiet night in Gotham, but i really felt the character interaction and dialog were pretty weak. . . . . . i still will never understand why so many fans of this series let themselves get SO blinded by hype, that they throw perfect scores of 'TEN' at this book? . . . . the art is nice, but the writing is far from great. . . . . one of the biggest wastes of page-space is the "Gotham Is..." dialog. that whole intro is utter nonsense!!! it means absolutely nothing other than Snyder making an acknowledgement that THIS is the final issue in his and Greg Capullo's Batman run. . . . . and in a way i'm extremely Grateful to Greg Capullo for finally leaving the book, because it make's it easier for me to finally drop the title from my pull-list and pretty much abandon buying DC monthly titles. . . there was a time i'd buy everything 'Batman' and now i see it for the cash-grab low end product that it is. . . . this issue just makes me a bit angry when i see so many concepts that were never touched upon due to wasting too much time dragging out 'Zero-Year' and don't even get me started on 'Super Heavy'!!! . . . more like - 'Super Waste of everyone's time'!!! . . . . now Scott Snyder is going to have to find another talented artist to sugar coat his mediocre writing with.

this is the single best issue of Batman i have read in a quite a while since Death of the Family and some of the early issues of Zero Year. i've loved this series since the very beginning but i just haven't been as into it for the last year or more. this issue gets right into the story and the characters without overburdening the reader with excessive narration and history lessons that kill the pace. my only gripe was with the art. in some panels Alfred is missing his hand while in other panels he has both his hands. surprised that made it past editorial.

David Finch provides beautiful art, but Tom King's writing was just miserably BAD!!! . . . . . . . . . . . reading Tom King regurgitating lines about "The Hero This City Deserves" and "is this a Good Death?" makes his story feel like fan-fiction. . . . . . . . . . and if Batman can pull off an impossible stunt like fly an ejector seat out of his car and miraculously CATCH onto a crashing airplane, mount rocket thrusters underneath it, climb back on top and impossibly ride the plane like it was a sled . . . . . . then there's NO WAY i can believe he'd be remotely worried about dying on impact when it landed!!!! . . . . . if you're going to write Batman as a Big Bat-God Mcguffin then don't have him all weepy and ready to die at the first sign of danger! . . . . . . . . . . . . . the Batman i know and love is STUBBORN!!! . . . . . and wouldn't be so quick to accept his own death. . . . . . . . . . he always has a back-up plan!!!

i absolutely LOVE David Finch's art and will buy anything if he's drawing it! . . . . . ESPECIALLY if it's Batman!!!! . . . . . . . . . i just don't know if Tom King is worthy fit for Batman. King has some cool ideas but they feel under-cooked. plus his characterization of Batman feels off. . . . . . . it was cool seeing Finch get to draw Grundy.

really enjoying David Finch's BE-A-U-TIFUL art!!! . . . . . . . Tom King yammers on and on about "Piss" and "Smoke". . . . way too much meaningless monologue about absolutely nothing filling up page space. . . . . . . a few nice moments between Gotham Boy and Gotham Girl. . . . . . other than that the writing is pretty bad. . . . . . Tom King sure does love to overuse the dreaded McGuffin!!!

i'm really conflicted! i keep coming back for David Finch's amazing art. his Batman drawing skills are especially Kick-Ass!!!! . . . . . . . . . but this writing is just weak sauce. . . . . . . . i get a sense for the story that Tom King is trying to get across . . . . . but the execution feels way too underdeveloped. . . . . . . the detective clues and solutions were just silly boarding on ridiculous! . . . . . mcguffin, mcguffin, MCGUFFIN!!!

comics were meant to be fun . . . . . . . . . . but you DO need some level of Suspension of Disbelief! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this series from the VERY first issue has thrown that Suspension of Disbelief right in the garbage!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . Batman riding an ejector seat up to an airplane, or Gotham Boy & Gotham Girl running off and magically buying themselves Super Powers, or Batman being omniscient to figure out Gotham Boy had an itch took off his mask and a soldier saw his identity and killed his parents, these are just so silly they take anyone with a grain of common sense right out of the story!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . now we have Gotham Boy (still with no real explanation of how he's become empowered) take down the ENTIRE Justice League!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, the WHOLE gang!!!! . . . . . . . . . . but somehow Batman is STILL standing!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this IS NOT good comic writing!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . NOT . . . AT . . . ALL ! ! ! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i will say at least there was a funny moment with Alfred, but it just isn't enough to outweigh the cons of the story!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Finch draws his usual beautiful artwork! . . . it's always great to see him draw the members of the Justice League. . . . it's just too bad the JLA got taken out in this story like a bunch of punks for a BAD punch-line!!!

i just wasn’t buying the crazy Gotham Girl was selling. . . . . that awful joke She kept telling did nothing for the story . . . . . . . . everything has just been so rushed and forced on us. . . . . . . . . . . . . underdeveloped characters that i could care less about. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and not just the new set of characters!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . Batman doesn’t feel like Batman . . . . . . . . . . . . . he feels more like a plank of wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . it was EXTREMELY cringe-worthy when he opened up to Gotham Girl!!!!! . . . . . . OY VEY!!!! here we go AGAIN!!!! 9_9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . at least the art was very polished. . . . . . . . . . . . . . this comic is sugary icing with NO cake. just a bunch of empty calories.

so this is what it's all been building towards? . . . . . . . . . . i'm sorely disappointed! . . . especially after being treated to an excellent story within Detective Comics. what truly makes me sad is that now Detective Comics is going to join in on this mess. . . . . . . . a pretty big fail in setting up a crossover arc. . . . . . . . . . gone are the days of exciting and compelling stories like 'Knightfall' or 'No Man's Land'. . . . . . . . . . references made about 'Zero Year' and Tim Drake's "death" in Detective Comics #940 really feel FORCED!!! there is also reference to John Henry Steel for absolutely NO reason at all! . . . . . . . . . . . . the art was nice at some points, but messy and wonky in others. . . . . . . wasn't crazy about how Batman's cowl was drawn, or how short the ears were. . . . . . . the line "the monster men are coming, aren't they strange?" i just find absolutely CORNY!

DC, please stop with this bi-weekly nonsense!!!! . . . . . the quality will only continue to suffer if you keep this up. . . . . i didn't expect great things from this cross-over, but so far for me it's been a tedious read. . . . . . . i find absolutely nothing i care about withing these pages, other than the 'Batman' brand slapped on it.

why does Bane need Psycho Pirate to manipulate his mind to tell him he’s Happy and Brave? if Psycho Pirate is so powerful to be able to alter Bane’s perceptions, then why doesn’t he just manipulate Bane and psychologically overpower and take control of him? for someone with such powerful mind control, you’d figure he wouldn’t be SUCH a wimp. first Hugo Strange used him, now Bane is Using him, and i’m sure Batman will use him just as easy. Psycho Pirate is nothing more than a tool.

i never felt Gotham Girl as being anything more than an underdeveloped two-dimensional character. so Batman going on a suicide mission to save her just doesn’t have any impact for me.

it’s a very interesting idea of Batman putting together a Suicide Squad. but seriously, would Batman as a character REALLY put others in harm’s way to complete a mission? what about Batman’s moto “i work better alone”?

it’s a neat idea that as soon as Batman grabs Arnold Wesker’s hand, that Wesker assumes the master/puppet relation. but what’s to stop anyone else from grabbing Wesker’s hand and giving him orders?

it’s very silly how this ‘Punch’ character is able to drug Commissioner Gordon, assume his identity and infiltrate Arkham Asylum right under everyone’s noses. it just feel’s like a stunt to set up a cheap shock.

finally we introduce Catwoman, who is now introduced as a mass murderer.
another Legacy character RUINED just for shock value.
at least she didn't cut off her own face and wear it like a mask.
maybe that will be in the next story arc?

"Bane. I've come for Psycho-Pirate. I need him to save someone who needs to be saved. Turn him over, I go away. Refuse to turn him over, and I will break your damn back.” i can't believe this is supposed to pass as a Batman comic!!!! . . . . . this is frigging TERRIBLE!!!! . . . . . as much as i love the character of Batman i keep enting this comic in hopes to finding something to enjoy with this, but this is just not mediocre!!! . . . . this is REALLY REALLY bad!!! . . . . . . . and can we tell a Bane story without having to resort to the already beaten to death 'Broken Back' trope??? . . . . . . . . . . yeah!!! . . . 'Knightfall' . . . we get it!!! . . . it was a HUGE best seller, and STILL is!!!! . . . . this will just be another forgettable footnote in the long list of Batman missed opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . also - - - - - how dull was it for Batman to keep repeating himself like a drone through the entire comic? "Bane. I've come for Psycho-Pirate. I need him to save someone who needs to be saved. Turn him over, I go away. Refuse to turn him over, and I will break your damn back.” "Bane. I've come for Psycho-Pirate. I need him to save someone who needs to be saved. Turn him over, I go away. Refuse to turn him over, and I will break your damn back.” "Bane. I've come for Psycho-Pirate. I need him to save someone who needs to be saved. Turn him over, I go away. Refuse to turn him over, and I will break your damn back.” "Bane. I've come for Psycho-Pirate. I need him to save someone who needs to be saved. Turn him over, I go away. Refuse to turn him over, and I will break your damn back.” "Bane. I've come for Psycho-Pirate. I need him to save someone who needs to be saved. Turn him over, I go away. Refuse to turn him over, and I will break your damn back.”

while the art in the series has been consistently good, i absolutely can't stand the writing. . . . it just doesn't feel like Batman to me in any way shape or form. . . . any nods to classic comic moments King might put in just end up feeling forced and insincere to me, like he never really was a fan of Batman to begin with. . . . and while this new direction of Catwoman might just be a typical comic fake-out? but seeing her slash people's throats, it's just not right. it's NOT the character. . . . but i really just don't care anymore. . . . . . i'm done. . . . . . . and for the record, you tear your ACL, you're not going to be hopping and climbing around rooftops. you're going to be incapacitated, no matter how much shock you are in. . . . . and this issue much like the last one is TOO bright! . . . i thought Batman only operated at night?

Batman punches his way through an army of faceless dummies
runs down a hall, punching more dummies
climbs a building and dives into the ocean
punches his way through another massive hoard of dummies
stand up, walks in a room, punches a few more dummies
stands before Bane and Catwoman
THE END.

no matter how much narration you cram into these panels, this is barely even worth HALF a comic.
and not a very good half comic either.

what ever that narrative was supposed to be was pretty boring and silly. re-examining ideas that have already been done to death buy other writers. and MUCH better without cheap shocks thrown in.
Bruce as a boy attempting suicide??
i'll bet this sort of thing is very popular with the Emo crowd, but it's just NOT Batman.

thought the art appears polished and pretty, there are some severe issues with the figures.
the opening page Batman looks like he has no pelvis. his leg is coming right out of where his crotch should be.
the splash page where he's swinging and kicking is an impossible pose. he'd have to have no spine in order to assume that pose. ...and once again ...he has no pelvis.
the splash page of Batman running down the hall looks more like he's tripped and falling.
the page of Batman punching his way through the hoard, his rib cage and pectorals look completely deformed.

i don't fault the artist for this in any way. with rushed bi-weekly deadlines, of course the quality is going to suffer.

Tom King’s writing is confused whether it want’s to be serious/grim-dark or a silly cartoony comic.
i’ve seem some writers successfully blend the two, but this comic just doesn’t jive.

i don’t like Tom King’s dialog. i find it stale and dull.
the plot is silly, and many of the actions leading up to the final end were just pointless.
this would be more acceptable if this series wasn’t trying too hard to take itself seriously with themes like Catwoman on Death Row for mass Murder, or Young Bruce Wayne attempting suicide, or Bruce constantly sulking all the time looking at the portrait of his parents, questioning “if Mother and Father would be proud of him?”

the biggest problem i’ve had with this entire series since the beginning is, if Psycho Pirate is so powerful, how is it that Hugo Strange and Bane able to control him like a possession?
he’s less a character and more of just a plot device.
a plot device that’s being used very poorly.

the re-hash of a rehash with Bane, Venom, and Broken Backs has now just become a bad parody of itself.
Catwoman, Kick that Back so, we can sail away on bubblegum!
sure ‘Knightfall’ had it’s fair share of silliness, but THIS is ridiculous!!!!
as for the Catwoman triple-cross . . . . 9_9

a nice easy breezy fluff of a story.

i suppose there would definitely be some awkwardness/tension between Batman and Superman of Bruce inviting Clark to meet the future missus. but the dialog of those two droning on and on about whether or not they are truly friends dragged out way too long. it comes off as very out of character for either of them to dismiss the other's friendship.

Lois and Selina both had the best dialog in this issue.
there were definitely some fun moments to be had, but this comic really felt like it was missing something.

i am happy to see that DC finally seems fit to marry Bruce and Selina.
this was a long time coming!!! so that earns the comic an extra nudge.
for a while it seemed like DC conveniently had forgotten the romance that had once again started in 'Hush' as well as 'Heart of Hush' story lines.
i just hope they are serious about really making this a thing.

ok! i'll admit while this was yet another easy breezy piece of fan service fluff,
it was a very cute and VERY FUN easy breezy piece of fan service fluff.

at points the comic felt like it started to repeat itself and go in circles.
but there really were a LOT of very nice tender moments within this issue.
if i had to compare, i'd say this issue had a somewhat similar vibe to what i enjoyed about the early 'Rebirth' issues of Superman. some of the bonding scenes between Lois and Selina were just a delight to read.

not all the moments in this issue land, but the ones that do will really get you in the feels.
...or maybe i AM just a sucker for some good old fashioned Batman/Catwoman fan service?
either way i DO look forward to re-reading this story again.

an "OK" issue, far from excellent. felt like a retread of previous stories past, like this was a re-hash of Thomas Elliot. some of the ideas didn't really feel like they were fully developed. hints and clues were pretty weak and/or misleading. motivations and actions felt a bit forced just for the plot. to me it felt like Zsasz cutting himself was done for no other reason but to throw off the reader from the actual culprit. Batman has some $#!††y reflexes!!! he just lets a little kid bitch slap him across the face. . . . . . . REALLY??? when did Batman become such a Goober? can we just skip all this malarkey and get to the Batman/Catwoman wedding already?

the whole premise of this comic was just ridiculous. this whole ‘Gentle Man’ thing . . . just stupid! even more stupid is Bruce and Dianna having to go in there together, right before Bruce is supposedly getting married. it felt like a case of- "we need to do this just because". Wonder Woman acts like a total bimbo in this issue. there’s even a panel where Wonder Woman’s butt looks awkwardly smushed into frame, just so we can get a close-up of her ass. but she still manages to throw out some dialog about the inferiority of man, so she's STILL an inspiration to women everywhere! Go E.R.A.!!! there was a double page splash that looked VERY lacking in detail and form for what i’d expect from a double page splash. it looks more like a regular old run-of-the-mill panel blown up to eat up a full two pages. Tom King, the master of decompression. i thought the first installment of Super Friends with Superman was fun, but this chapter with Wonder Woman is just cheesy schlock. everything just felt like an excuse to get to the last panel, for our melodramatic cheesy cliffhanger. the next story arc, Bruce, Selina and Diana will all appear on the Jerry Springer Show.

the entire premise of the 'Gentle Man' and Everlasting Hoard is just dumb. i hope we never see or hear of this idea again. the whole thing felt like just a cheap excuse to get Bruce and Dianna alone together for years on end. i have other gripes with this story, but my head hurts too much from reading this comic to even get into it right now.

a while ago i quit this series before when it was getting too painfully terrible to read. the announcement of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle possibly getting married lured me back in. unfortunately this title is REALLY testing the grounds of just how $#!††¥ it can get!!! this comic is SO bad that it practically reads like comedy now! but that’s NOT what i want in a Batman book! very padded. lots of filler, thin plot. dull repeating dialog. a WHOLE double page spread FILLED with "I LOVE YOU". an ineffectual, incompetent boob of a Batman. there are more than a dozen ways Bruce could have incapacitated Alfred without having to just punch him in the face like an oaf. and really? Flash comes running out of nowhere just to take a punch in the face? sorry Flash fans! this is a slap happy joke of a comic book.

i didn’t find this comic interesting or very fun to read. -bland dialog -decompressed/padded story-telling -extremely overpowered two-dimensional Poison Ivy -Flash family treated like a bunch of punching bags to top it all off Ivy makes Superman kill Batman, then somehow Batman is alive again. this is just dumb.

absolutely awful!!! this was a real chore to read. even the art looked really sloppy and rushed.

WHY would Selina Kyle, a master thief need to use explosives to infiltrate a frigging store??? shoehorned flashbacks with very out of place costumes from past eras. if Selina is wearing her classic Golden Age Catwoman costume then shouldn't Dick Grayson have been wearing the Pixie boots? this series is really dragging it's feet to get to the wedding already.

some people say that Tom King likes to deconstruct established characters. i say "ruins and dishonors" is more like it. it's painfully obvious what demographic he's aiming for.

UHG!!!! just . . . . UHHHG!!!! i can see this is an alternate reality. so that is why this version of Dick Grayson and Selina Kyle are SO painful to read! but why . . . WHY did he have to turn Booster Gold into such an incompetent and annoying idiot???

i'm not sure who this comic makes look like a bigger idiot, Booster Gold or Tom King?

wow was this BAD!!! very predictable comic. it tried to be shocking, but just wasn't. so much useless 'ramble-on' dialog that went nowhere and amounted to nothing. i thought Tom King didn't write a very good Batman, well his Joker isn't any better. and the jokes were clunky and flopped hard. some of the art was ok. looks a bit too traced though. (EDIT) i love when elitist fanbois get all triggered when they see critical reviews. they need to lash out and condescend anyone with a different opinion than theirs. bunch of fascists that they are.

that was just AWFUL! Tom King not only does not understand these characters, but he wastes an entire issue showing that he has no idea what to do with them either. just pointless filler before the wedding issue. i'm not a fan of this traced art. looks like screenshots from the Telltales Batman game.

i should have known to stay away the first time i left this series. but i allowed myself to be lured back with false hope. what's worse is so many stories leading up to this issue have been nothing more than useless filler!! there is a poor excuse of a twist at the end that’s supposed to set up what’s to come. but WHO CARES??? they think after this gargantuan betrayal, we’re just supposed to trust them again???? F@&% THAT!!! F@&% YOU DC !!! and F@&% YOU Tom King !!! you just DO NOT understand the character!!! take this pathetic Emo excuse for Batman and stick it right up your greedy cash grabbing @&$ !!! and no amount of bonus pin-up art can possibly make up for this GIANT cluster F@&% either!!!! also.... in the last issue Catwoman was shot point blank in the gut. how is she walking around just fine in this issue?

to quote Heath Ledger’s Joker… “what happened? did your balls drop off?” a comic about a court drama with Bruce being just as big a cuck as ever. this comic was so decompressed, and spread thin beyond belief. not that the story that we do have was all that compelling to begin with. throw in some stupidity like Dick Grayson announcing his actual name while jumping out at Killer Croc, and the comic descends from just mediocre to just cringeworthy. this comic not only fails to offer anything worthwhile with Mr Freeze, but it’s just another issue of emasculating Bruce and making him seem ineffectual as Batman. Bruce getting frustrated and ripping the urinal off the wall only seems like a kid’s temper tantrum. and of course the damage never gets brought up in the comic again. "Gee! how did this urinal get ripped off the wall? last one in there was Bruce Wayne. i think he needs to be fined for damages and removed from this jury." this deconstructing of Batman and his war on crime just a drag. there’s no way this needs to go on for as long as it is. …and that ending! for the love of PETE! Bruce’s action at the end of the comic...what a total CUCK!!! without the crutch of building Batman & Catwoman’s relationship to keep people’s interest, i don’t believe Tom King has anything else worthwhile to offer the character. the art was alright. not stupendous, but ok. i probably would have enjoyed the art more had it been attached to a story where Batman wasn’t such a pathetic little needle nuts. i was originally going to score this issue as a '4' but i needed to remove a score point for each one of Bruce's testicles that were missing from this issue.

if Victor had gone right to the police this would never have happened. Bruce isn’t presenting a valid argument. even IF Freeze happens to be innocent, he was still in violation of his parole. whatever BS reasons Freeze had for suiting up and leaving his house arrest, if he was truly afraid that Batman was coming for him then he should have called the police. how did he think this would turn out for him? and if Freeze refuses to name his ‘underground associate’ then he’s pretty much framing himself. but if Victor Freeze was truly innocent, then he should have JUST called the police the moment he heard Batman was coming for him. Bruce is wasting everyone's time by trying to sway the jury. if he knows Freeze is innocent then he should use his resources as Batman to prove it, instead of this drawn out court drama. we get to hear Bruce go on about his man-pain yet again about the death of his parents. after all, it’s been long overdue that we’ve gotten to hear Bruce crying over Mommy and Daddy. Tom King probably thinks he’s being profound with Bruce questioning Batman’s actions, and Freeze’s fear of Batman being comparable to his own grief as a child. but the while thing is just laughably ridiculous and very very asinine. and of course the comic wouldn’t be complete without the obligatory cliffhanger leading us to believe that Bruce might actually reveal his secret identity to the members of the Jury. i absolutely hope that he does! i’d like to see Tom King write his way out of THAT one! this isn’t good comic writing. this is just Tom King cashing paychecks on the climb to issue 100. in all of this Lee Weeks dos his best to try to ape David Mazzucchelli's art style. some of the 'sparse' splash pages were nice, but they could have used a bit more fluidity.

this is fan-fiction level writing just to get Bruce back into the ‘Year One’ Bat-suit. more time wasted with Bruce trying to sway the jury, instead of just exonerating Freeze as Batman. now we get a theological analogy of Bruce comparing Batman to God that will make your eyes roll so hard, they just might pop out of your skull. at any point as Bruce rambles on you’d think ANY of the Jurors who are already fed up of this whole thing already, would tell Bruce to shut the hell up and get to his point. i was not convinced that Bruce's argument actually changed the minds of the jury. it just felt like these events happened and were not earned. and i still say that Batman should have just proven Freeze’s innocence AS Batman, and not wasted everyone’s time. also, we could not get past another issue without Bruce mentioning how sad he was when his parents were killed. Tom King just loves flashing that 'pity' card. it's obvious that Tom King just wants to forgo all the emotional breakthroughs and progress Bruce has made over the years, and revert him to Frank Miller's Batman Year One. at least we hopefully won't have to see that awful purple caped, yellow-trimmed 'Rebirth' Bat-suit any more.

do yourself a favor... just read 'Robin Year One'. i really had high hopes for this Bruce/Dick team-up. it started like it was going to be interesting, but nosedived quick. that's not to say that this issue didn't have a it's moments, but all of this has already been done (MUCH BETTER) in other stories by more capable writers. and i was expecting a lot more from Tom King with his use of Dick Grayson as well. the art.... normally i really enjoy Matt Wagner's art, but this looked very rushed. i might blame this on hastened bi-weekly release schedules, but that's just my guess. this issue almost won me over for nostalgia points alone, but then again i'd much rather just re-read 'Detective Comics #38', 'Robin Year One', 'Dark Victory' or 'Legends of the Dark Knight #100' rather than this story. this issue even makes 'All-Star Batman & Robin' look good by comparison. btw... if you have not yet read 'Robin Year One' you really owe it to yourself to do so.

UHG! i thought this was the same Tom King that wrote the hit series 'Grayson'. what happened??? did he completely forget how to write the character? Nightwing's jokes were SO bad in this! such painful dialog!!! i was actually almost happy when he got *SPOILER WITHHELD* ! ...also, Nightwing getting *SPOILER WITHHELD* in the *SPOILER WITHHELD* was very predictable. not much comic here. textbook decompression.

it's too bad the rest of the issue didn't match up with the first few pages. aside from a very cool opening... the rest of this comic was a who lot of nothing. just random scenes of Batman looking for KG Beast questioning random characters, spread throughout random scenarios... ...Batman & Bronze Tiger somewhere in Asia, fighting random ninjas... ...Batman somehow bound, hanging upside-down by Kanto from the Fourth World... how and why would Kanto have anything to even do with the KG Beast or his father? and how would Bronze Tiger even lead Batman to Kanto? then there is a whole page of exposition thrown over a double page splash of Batman talking in Russian to (who knows?) as to the whereabouts of KG Beasts father. i get that this issue was trying to build tension for the confrontation in the next issue. but i found this issue to be more tedious, then suspenseful.

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!!!!! X'D this is a joke, right? this was supposed to be a joke? why is DC trying to force Tom King on the Batman series for 100 issues? the man didn’t even have 50 good issues in him, let alone 100. DC really needs to find someone who actually understands Batman, and knows how to tell a good Batman story. otherwise we can all sit back and continue to watch King embarrass himself. .5 is added for the good laugh. X'D

right from the beginning there was no hook. dull panels filled with dull uninteresting dialog. i'm told Penny's throat was cut. who's Penny? why should i care? but, i did get to see Penguin get punched in the face, then get naked and take a shower. so at least there's that. i've seen very few modern writers actually tell interesting Penguin stories. this was not one of them. there are slight hints to the Bane story, but no real advancement made. now Tom King it threatening the welfare of Alfred Pennyworth. he must have mistaken himself for Scott Snyder? nothing redeeming here. this comic is trash.

this is a synthetic imitation of a Batman comic. *****SPOILERS AHEAD***** it was laugh-out-load hysterical seeing Batman beating up that inflatable Bane doll. and Batman socking Gordon in the mouth (though predictable) was also really funny. this story fails as a Batman comic, but totally wins as a parody.

WOW was this BAD!! i’m unconvinced of any of this. it all just feels so forced and very very silly. (((((spoilers))))) Gordon talks like an idiot. “Pat, can you get Harvey in here? i want to talk the Freeze case. recent one please. the one where Batman just kept hitting him.” who talks like this? meanwhile on a rooftop, Batman idiotically yells questions at Maxie Zeus while repeatedly punching him in the face. what was Maxie Zeus doing on that rooftop anyway? that’s not his usual M.O. 2 issues ago Penguin’s men were about to shoot Alfred. wouldn’t Penguin wonder why this would somehow affect Batman? Penguin is blindfolded and caged with Alfred. he can’t just put two and two together? he can’t just lift his blindfold? and why is Alfred sitting conversing poetry with him? and Batman is such an idiot. he was one step behind the Feds. the Feds had tracked down KGBeast long before Batman even showed up. but instead of acting, the Feds set up surveillance as KGBeast killed his Father, and continued to do nothing as Batman and Beast fought to the death. they didn't even doing anything as Beast was about to kill Batman, nor after Batman broke KGBeast’s neck and left him for dead. this whole damned scenario is just so idiotic! Batman continues to torture & terrorize… (i mean) continues to interrogate as he throws Firefly out a window without his jet pack. then a whole 9 grid page is wasted on Batman catching Firefly with his grapple-gun and pulling him back up. Batman then continues to terrorize Firefly. meanwhile Alfred enjoys some tea with Penguin. elsewhere, Gordon gets reports of Batman punching his way through all of Gotham. Batman just continues on his merry way, randomly beating the hell out of Gotham’s kooky criminals. they're all just waiting on the rooftops for Batman to come along and beat the crap out of them. now i’m sure Commissioner has a whole array of blunt objects at his disposal. why would he need a Baseball bat to smash the Bat-signal? and WHY would he use someone’s souvenir baseball bat that was autographed by the WHOLE team?? - - SO ridiculous!!! Flashpoint Batman finally shows up, Penguin is out of his cage, Alfred’s beat up, and Bruce lets Flashpoint Batman sneak up behind him. THE END. if Tom King’s sole purpose is to turn Batman into an idiotic and unlikable jerk then he’s really doing a FANTASTIC job of it!

i'm sorry, but i found the concept of Tom King's Batman #38 to be just awful. i have no idea what the purpose of going back to this story is at this point, other than just fill up issues to meet his hundred issue quota. i was also confused at the narrative. i thought this kid was already outed as having his parents murdered? i thought we already found out that the Butler did it? why have this story of Batman tracking down the bald guy? that guy had awful impulse reflexes to let that kid slash his wrist and then his neck, and through prison bars no less. instead of trying to pull away, he conveniently falls down right next to the bars so the kid can keep cutting him. i'm also very confused at the purpose of returning to this plot after last issue ended, with Batman punching Gordon then Gordon smashing the bat-signal. i really don't see a point to this issue. the only thing i genuinely liked about this issue, was the variant cover looked to be a homage to the first deluxe Hardcover edition of Batman Year One. ...possibly?

well that was a complete waste of an issue. just a whole lot of pointless nothing. this series is all over the place, yet goes nowhere.

what the hell? this series is all over the place, with no rhyme or reason. there were no real clues in the last two issues to even tie all this together. it’s just feels like a series of non related one-shots. another pointless issue that ultimately went nowhere. get Tom King off this book. he has absolutely no clue what to do with Batman.

what the hell is going on? this has absolutely nothing to do with where the last issue left off. Guillem March's art is always nice, but this series has zero consistency as far as story. ***EDIT*** points had to be subtracted after finding out this was going to be a cross-over.

reading Gotham Girl's dialog gave me a headache

i can barely even remember what was happening in this stupid and pointless story before it was interrupted with that stupid and pointless flash cross-over. who even does that? interrupts one stupid and pointless story with another. this issue continues the tradition of being stupid and pointless. it might even be stupider and even more pointless than before? hard to tell.

decompressed pointless filler "beep" "beep"

again this plot goes nowhere. bunch of jumbled conflicting tones thoghout this series. so inconsistent. no focus. just a mixed up hodgepodge.

there’s no reason for this to plot to get dragged out so much. aside from each issue being inconsistent from one another, what Batman run in history has ever needed this many issue to tell it’s story before? at the conclusion 'Knightmares' the meandering plot has barely even progressed.

SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! and MORE SPOILERS!! at long last, Batman FINALLY pulls his way out of the Nightmare machine. well it’s about damn time! then Tom King the master of decompression wastes as many pages as he can having Batman march from dummy to dummy, effortlessly punching them out as he goes, and spouting every cliche in the book. even Grundy and Amygdala were knocked out with little to no effort. then there’s a painfully mismatched shift in the art style. did not fit AT ALL !!!! in the end we get some swiped dialog from Dante’s The Divine Comedy. it wouldn’t be a Tom King comic without padding it with as much filler and as little effort as possible. at least we are more than halfway through this garbage. Bane won’t be the one to finally break the Bat, Tom King will!

aside from these plot points being left to hang for months on end, King kicks batman through the dirt a little more. and he's not done making Batman an unlikable idiotic jerk, now he’s going for broke. OMG is this bad!!! SO freaking bad!!! this comic reaches a whole new level of stupidity! ...and Tom King still hasn’t explained WHY Flashpoint Batman is helping Bane!! the lousy frigging hack that he is!!

oh god is this ever awful! so many plot holes. so many contrivances. so much ridiculousness. the whole story is just so stupid. just stop it already.

ok. this was absolutely terrible! Tom King is an awful no-talent Hack. still we get no real answers as to- -how did Flashpoint Batman survive in the first place? -how did Flashpoint Batman get to Bruce's dimension? -why did Flashpoint Batman help Bane against Bruce? -why is Bane dumb enough to trust Flashpoint Batman? -how is Bruce not a cripple, with all the times his back has been broken? -how is Bane not a cripple? wasn't his back broken by Catwoman? all King has done is just brought up even more unresolved questions. now he wants to Bring Flashpoint Martha Wayne back to life. JUST AWFUL. we get some of the usual Tom King'iest of Tom King'y tropes- -SLOWWWWWWWW pacing -heavy decompression -issue padded with something that wasn't really written by King (this time a song) -spinal damage fixed easy peasy -Bruce made to look like a weak idiot -obligatory comical punch to the face of a Bat-family member -3D computer models being traced and passed off as art this is just a nasty hot diarrhea explosion of a mess.

another complete waste of an issue.

more random, all-over-the-place, decompressed, pseudo intellectual gibberish. nothing was properly set up. we are just thrust into Gotham being run by villains with Flashpoint Batman in charge of Wayne Manor and the Bat-cave. meanwhile Bruce is marching out in a snow blizzard in some undefined mountains. where? why? who knows? Bruce is asking for someone called 'The Memory of the Mountain', but gets his throat slashed and his head bashed with a crowbar by two nobody punks. then all the sudden Catwoman is there, just because. Bane gives a speech about how the Justice League won't come in and stop his havoc on Gotham because he'll threaten innocents. yeah. i totally buy that . . . . NOT! and the reason Bane even wants Gotham? who knows? this is just beyond pretentious and dumb. at least the Tony Daniel portion of art was nice, and we no longer have to worry about this going on till issue 100. hopefully DC will renumber this series after #85. just start fresh.

Tom King just has no idea how to tell a story. his "plots" are all over the place and incoherent. Tom King also does not understand nor does he respect any of the characters within the DCU. him being one of the main writers is a major reason why DC Comics is in so much trouble right now.. DC should just change the companies name to 'The Titanic'. that would make Tom King an iceberg.

just call this arc- 'Knightfall for Dummies' more ridiculous, random, nonsensical gibberish. -more Bruce acting like a pathetic boob. -more comical punches to the face. -more regurgitation lines from Frank Miller out of context. -more pathetic edge lord cheap shocks. unadulterated TRASH!

an absolutely pathetic excuse for a Batman comic!! the only thing this comic was missing was Catwoman tying Batman up in bondage with a gag-ball in his mouth, then spanking his fanny with a paddle until he said "Thank you Mistress Catwoman. May i have another?" this has nothing to do with the issues before it.

just another day at the beach featuring Bat and Cat beat some people up on a boat.

oh dear LORD what an absolute mess!!! this was so very painful to get through. when we don't have the luxury of pretty art to mask the terrible writing, this janky art really shows how bad the writing really is. awful AWFUL dialogue! disjointed scenes. story barely progresses. bunch of empty nothing.

oh for pete's sake!!! the painfully obvious back-peddaling that this issue starts with just proves that Tom King had NO plan of what the heck he's doing. King never bothered to read Flashpoint to learn that Thomas Wayne uses his guns to make up for the fact that he lacks the years of training that Bruce had. Tim Drake's lack of reflex skills was just LAUGHABLE!!! King made Batman & the Bat-family into just as big a dope that he himself is! this is seriously EMBARRASSING!!!! Tom King, have you NO shame?? beyond pathetic. along with awful writing, even the art was phoned in.

TRASH! EXTREMELY decompressed typical Tom King Garbage dialog. still ridiculous how Tom King thinks that Flashpoint Batman is well enough trained to take down the entire Bat-family by himself. Tom King also is under the misconception that Bane is nothing more than a muscle-headed oaf. the explanation for why Bane has it in for Batman is weak at best. barely even a reason. i did fid it extremely comical how Bane just left the Bat-a-Rang stuck hanging out of his cheek the entire time. the way the fight ended between Batman and Bane was a bad parody. so damn stupidly ridiculous! this will go down in history as one of the worst Batman runs in existence, because Tom King can’t write a Batman story worth a crap.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Tom King has Batman crying YET again! maybe Alfred wouldn't have died if Bruce didn't leave him in danger in the first place. this really makes Bruce look like a complete failure. how is it that Alfred was even a prisoner of Bane's in the first place? Tom King is just NOT a good writer. he has no idea how to create, innovate or inspire. all he knows how to do is destroy. King is leaving a nasty smelly mess that other writers will have to clean up after him. this issue is decompressed filler, with further insight to how or why Flashpoint Batman is even there. Tim Drake shows no sign of damage from being stabbed in his chest. absolute TRASH!

Tom King HAS to be making this S**T up as he goes!!! the bozo probably had NO idea what he wanted to to for this run, NO PLAN... just a lot of pretentious hot air!!! F**K YOU, Tom King!!! take this miserable pathetic excuse of a Batman run, and stick it right up your A**!!!!!

thank god this pathetic P.O.S. Batman run is finally over!! leave it to Tom King to riddle his "grand" finale with a juxtaposition of something totally non-consequential to the climax. this comic is ALL over the place! does he think he's being clever? i can't believe he re-used the Catwoman gag from ‘I am Suicide’. it was dumb the first time, and even more cringe-worthy now that he's forced it in here. Tom King, take your S***ty Cucumber sandwich eating Batman and Gotham Girl and GTFO you awful HACK!!!

It's a hell of a lot better than Tom King's trash run.

It's a hell of a lot better than Tom King's trash run.

It's a hell of a lot better than Tom King's trash run.

It's a hell of a lot better than Tom King's trash run.

It's a hell of a lot better than Tom King's trash run.

I'm very torn on this comic. I love the idea that Joshua Williamson is trying to dust off ideas from Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated. I just wish that Williamson had actually read Morrison's Batman run beforehand. This story feels as though he'd just glossed over a Wikipedia page, and it's kind of insulting. Heading into HEAVY spoilers back from Grant Morrison's Batman run! This story mentions that the members of Batman Incorporated had formerly been members of the Club of Heroes. But only two of the five Batman Inc members within this story were actually in John Mayhew's Club of Heroes. El Gaucho and Man-Of-Bats. And how can you have Man-Of-Bats in any story without any mention at all of his son/sidekick 'Raven Red'? The Dark Ranger that was in the Club of Heroes died on John Mayhew's Island. His former sidekick scout took on the mantle as Dark Ranger. I seem to remember at some point that the original Dark Ranger not inviting his sidekick to the Club of Heroes meeting, as he was afraid his sidekick was going to steal his thunder. Hood didn't show up into Batman Incorporated until issue #5. He was sent in by Spyral to infiltrate Batman's team as a double agent. Now one of my biggest issues. The Batman of China. There was no Batman of China. It was Jiro Osamu, the Batman of Japan. The name Jiro paying tribute to Jiro Kuwata, who had wrote and illustrated the BatManga. And Jiro didn't join the team the team until Batman Inc either. Mixing up China for Japan (especially when it's a homage to the Manga), I'm honestly at a loss for words. So this story definitely has some glaring flaws with it's use for Batman Incorporated. Aside from that, the story itself is ok. I wasn't exactly blown away by the intro before we'd gotten into Grant Morrison territory. There was a party where everyone was dressed up as Gotham's villains. Some criminals decide to crash the party also dressed as Batman rogues. Batman shows up to stop their plans, and the party guests all thin it's part of a performance. Neat idea. Some of the dialogue is a bit childish. "WE DON'T WANT NO BATMAN BEAT-UP, PLEASE!" I dunno. maybe that's the tone that Williamson is going for? The art is really nice. better than your typical comic these days. The color also compliments the art very well. This is a very pretty comic. The story is just ok. But if this wasn't reprising ideas from Grant Morrison's Batman run, I doubt I'd even be giving this a second glance.

story is kinda ok. sort of. just a bit on the generic side. not a lot happens in this issue, except Lex wastes some expensive wine. the cliffhanger ending is absolutely cringe.

this comic has degraded from mediocre to just plain terrible. this is an absolutely awful depiction of Batman, as well as Batman Incorporated. Batman comes off as a screaming moron in this.

Wow! What a THUD!!! The use of Batman Incorporated was pointless. The characterizations of the Club of Heroes was cookie-cutter generic. Just an empty promise.

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!

Sorry but this writing is very pedestrian and very decompressed. More whiney-crybaby Batman, and now Tim Drake is a cranky amateur that gets defensive when he's called out for being sloppy in the field. Zdarsky’s version of Bruce is very tiresome with all his pissing and moaning about how he couldn't marry Selina. Feels like we’re revisiting Tom King’s run all over again. This version of Bruce is also a poor fighter. He gets beaten like a cheap drum. As for the Morrison Batman pandering at the end... PUH-LEEEEZE!!! What the hell is this? a discount version of Batman RIP?

Zdarsky clumsily over-explains what Zur En Arrh is, and my eyes couldn't roll any harder. Jorge Jimenez's art no longer looks like Jorge Jimenez. It appears that he's trying to become Dan Mora, but not successfully. This is such a poor quality fan fiction of Tower of Babel, Batman RIP, and Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, it's not even funny. I'll laugh next month if Failsafe is equipped with Kryptonite on the change that if Superman ever tried to stop him.

OH FOR F@$% SAKE!!!! didn't i predict at the end of the last issue, that Failsafe would be equipped with Kryptonite for Superman?? this story is So F@$%ing Stupid!! this seriously feels like it had been written by a 14 year old that had just finished watching BvS then read Tower of Babel, Batman RIP, and decided to do their own little mash-up story. this is not a story that will be remembered years from now. this is just a poor imitation of Batman stories that had come before, mixed with some Zack Snyder for good measure. Not a good way to start a Batman run.

It's hard to care about current comics, when the writers obviously do not.

It feels like we've already done this. This issue felt like some half-assed mashup of Batman R.I.P./Final Crisis/Return of Bruce Wayne and JLA: Earth 2. But instead of Bruce getting sent back in time by Darkseid, he gets sent to some twisted alternate earth waking up all trashed in a dirty alleyway. As far as i can tell, Jim Gordon in this story is acting as the knockoff version of (Batman RIP's) Bat-Mite. It seems that "Jimbo" is just a figment of Bruce's imagination following him in this journey. This story also kind of smacks of the "Future State" Detective story we'd just gotten about a year ago by Mariko Tamaki. So far Zdarsky's Batman just feels like a mish-mosh of ideas we've seen from other writers. Just not done nearly as well as what had come before.

The writing is clichéd. The art is lackluster.

Zdarsky continues to pass off fan-fiction level wring as professional work. This art is absolultey unacceptable quality for the flagship "Batman" title.

So absolutely boring and uninteresting. The art is extremely lackluster. If this is the best that DC has to offer then they should start saying their prayers.

Wow! This is some god awful fan-fiction crappery. Zdarsky writes Bruce like a completely weak spined dullard. His last moments with this alternate universe Selina make him look like a complete putz, right up to when she literally kicks his ass right out of her dimension. The dialogue when Bruce meets all his alternate counterparts was written as if by a 12-year old. "I'm Batman and it appears so are you." FFS!!!

I'm no fan of reboots, but DC seriously needs one! Especially for Batman!! Zdarsky has no place writing Batman. His run has been one poorly recycled idea after another. I'd call it fan fiction, but at least fan fiction has some passion to it. Zdarsky is just phoning this crap in. The art is okay, but I really dislike that Jorge Jimenez has simply become a poor imitation of Dan Mora. Only less dynamic, and much less fun to look at. Batman comics need some serious help! They'd needed it for a very long time now!

I will say it again... I hate reboots, but... DC PLEASE REBOOT BATMAN!!! ....and keep these hack writers far the HELL away from the character!!

even though this was a lot of fluff it was a fairly decent Batman/Flash story,
though it was a HORRIBLE Watchmen story.
i do not like this misconception that Geoff Johns started in DC Rebirth that the Watchmen are some big bad group of badasses that have some sort of unmotivated reason for wanting to harm the DCU and steal time away from them.
it makes NO sense at all.

Batman was beat to hell by Reverse-Flash, but after a little bed rest and a few band-aids seems no worse for wear.
i was entertained by the meeting of Bruce and his Father. but not much really came of it.

this also makes Dr Manhattan out as some sort of villain. that was never his persona.
at the end of Watchmen, Doc Manhattan said he wanted to leave his own galaxy for one less complicated.
so why would he mess with the DC timeline? remove Wally West? or give Superman nightmares?
....makes NO sense!!! none at all!!

p.s. ....there is a LOT more to successfully utilizing a nine panel layout
than merely just having nine panels on the page.
in the first chapter so much of the book is just wasted of having Reverse-Flash just punching Batman silly.
SUCH in-depth storytelling.

some alright art, but i cannot say i'm a fan of the writing one bit. if you enjoy seeing an emotionally fragile Batman that starts screaming irrationally as soon as he gets frustrated, then this book is for you.

It seems that Ed Brisson has done a bit more research to the Club of Heroes/Batman Incorporated characters than Joshua Williamson had. But Batman putting Ghost Maker in charge of Batman Inc just feels wrong. It's extremely contrived, and heavy-handed writing. I'm not sure who at DC felt this was a good idea? but it just doesn't work. John Timms art is great. Some great action drawn. This story however, just did not grab me.

it's sad to see what passes for a Batman comics these days. for a comic that was twice the length, it sure was a whole lot of nothing. this comic tried to be trippy, adventurous, and i'm guessing poignant, but it just came off as - "who gives a crap?" Tom King feebly trudges his way to the finish line. even the art was nothing i enjoyed looking at. a waste of paper and printer ink. Tynion may not be my favorite writer, but i sure as hell can't wait for him to save this series from a dullard that has absolutely no clue how to write a proper Batman story.

Tom King once again proves that his comics are worth their weight in turds. actually, turds are more valuable than this crap.

This comic reads like it was written by a Six-Year-Old with ADHD, that had gotten hold of and eaten an entire box of crayons. Why this idiot is allowed to continue to write Batman stories is beyond me.

at least someone over at DC had the good sense to fire this moron off the main Batman title. it's a mystery why they are still wasting paper printing this dreck.

the only difference between this comic and used toilet paper, is the used toilet paper isn't as shitty.

tom king must've taken a dump into a bag, then submitted it as his script.

UHG!!! Who let's this idiot write Batman??? Such painfully pretentious melodramatic garbage!! Art-wise- Flat, underdeveloped, rushed. But why bother wasting time fine-tuning art for a story this bad. This is NOT Batman or Catwoman! I absolute hate the dialogue that King writes for these two. I'm not even sure who these imposters are, but i don't like them. Keep Tom King AWAY from Batman!!

This garbage story evaporated the few remaining brain cells I had left. This actually makes Scott Snyder's writing look brilliant by comparison. Compared to Capullo's earlier work on Spawn and on Batman, this looks like something is amiss. Not sure what it is, but this art isn't as inspired as Capullo's usual fare. This comic was a huge miss!

Banana Muffin.

this issue (and arc in general) was ok. nothing you need to run out an buy. still it was better than the recent Batman/Superman stories with T-Shirt Superman and Robo-Bat Jim Gordon. there were some predictable moments, and gags that have been used many times before in Batman/Superman stories of the past. the failed New 52 Lobo will not be missed! hopefully after DC Rebirth we'll actually get The Main Man back? DC what were you thinking?

a big dumb fun comic with pretty art. not really much else to say.

a bit exposition heavy. not as enjoyable as the first issue.

A vast improvement over the previous issue. Dan Mora's art continues to be magnificent.

Only 4 issues in, I cannot recommend this book enough. Hopefully it stays running this strong throughout.

While i can't this is anywhere near the best comic i've ever read, it is definitely the only current Batman (or Superman) comic worth giving a damn about.

no hate towards Travis Moore, but this title really needs Dan Mora's art in order to work.

this is a terrific set up for the cross-over event of the century! the art is absolutely beautiful and the personification of the characters is spot on!!!! hopefully the series continues strong!!!

the quality of the series continues strong, and the the characters are just as compelling! the issue starts off with plenty of action but also plenty of humor. this is such a fun series, and it's written very accessible for people who might not be familiar to either franchise. but both parties are represented equally as well.

it's not easy telling you why i love this comics series so much without giving away spoilers galore! but what i can tell you is just about everything that you'd hope for, or expect to see in this series is here (or on the horizon). this is honestly my favorite comic right now! it's 2 of my absolute favorite sets of heroes, with a fantastic representation of what i love about both franchises. James Tynion IV has an excellent voice for the characters, and Freddie Williams II is delivering the goods in the art department!!! the surprise at the end made my jaw drop! can't wait for the next issue!!

one of my favorite issues yet!!! ...the series i finally in full swing and now that all the players are established we can get to some good old fashioned story telling. with the shredder having destroyed the Turtles only way back to their own dimension it's only a matter of time till the mutagen becomes rendered inert. but not all of the Turtles are convinced of Batman's true intention as a crime fighter. Raphael believes Batman to be nothing more than a rick thrill seeker and storms out of the Bat-cave. Batman finds Raphael and asks him to join him in a tour of Park Row. Batman brings him to Crime Alley and explains to him what happened to his parents and why he now feels the need for his war on crime. ...now some may argue that well established characters like Batman and the Ninja Turtles do not need to have their origins retold again and again. in a series where characters have never met before and are meeting for the very first time, YES they do need to make their proper introductions! ...and with the fact that an event this HUGE, this may very well be a new readers first comic book who knows absoluletly nothing about these characters? so to assume everyone has read as many comics as you have is absolutely selfish. ...ok! back to the rest of the Turtles, a hit on the Bat-computer shows a rift opening up from the Turtles home dimension that someone or SOMETHING has come to Gotham that will greatly change the series of events! and we are set up with a cliff-hanger leading to the next issue. ...... i must add that the sparring session between Batman and Leonardo was seriously a DREAM COME TRUE for me!!! seeing two of my favorite comic heroes spar was probably one of my ALL time favorite moments in comics! ^__^

such an awesome read!!! . . . . . it went by TOO fast for me, i wanted it to keep on going!!! seriously at 20 pages they could have squeezed in just 2 more pages at least? especially since we've only got just ONE issue left!!! . . . . . but i can’t complain too much. the pace moved really well, and we did get some good action in. . . . . . it was very heartbreaking to see the effects of being trapped in a universe without Mutagen was having on the Turtles. but this did lead to some wonderful character moments! . . . . . one really terrific scene was Donatello and Michelangelo hooking up Video Games to the Bat-computer!!! . . . . . now this brings me to one one of things i absolutely LOVED about the issue . . . . . we FINALLY get to see a character that i’ve been longing to see in this mini-series since the very beginning!!! . . . . . . and as it turns out . . . . . it was this character (whom i won’t mention names) was the owner of the video game console that Mikey and Donnie were playing! . . . such a FUN comic!!!

everything building up to this issue all tied up nice and neat. . . . . . i still wish we had more pages dedicated to the Battle Royal (the fight felt really condensed) i would have loved to actually see Damian Wayne (Robin) take out that army of League of Assassins, or see Splinter vs. all the mutated inmates of Arkham and not just hear about it afterward! . . . . . the fight between Batman and Shredder was done in the most disappointing way!!! we see a big splash of Batman & Shredder facing off with little tiny panels of them fighting crammed in the background!!! NO FAIR! quit hiding the good stuff! . . . . . but it still was a fun issue. . . . . . every character is given their time to shine, even though a lot of significant events happen behind the scenes. . . . . . all in all a fantastic issue! a lot of fun!!! . . . . . i don't want to give anything away about the ending, but i will say it was very satisfying, and very emotional!!! the parting moments between Batman and the Turtles was handled PERFECTLY! Raph bears his heart to Batman and it'll get you RIGHT in the feels!!! . . . . . there's also a moment between Batman and his son Damian and Alfred at the end that i just LOVED!!! . . . . art by Freddie Williams on this series has been amazing!!! . i will DEFINITELY also be picking this one up once it comes out in a collected edition! . . . . . for someone like me who has loved both Batman and Ninja Turtles comics for years, this has been an absolute DREAM come TRUE!!! . . . . . if you are a fan of either Batman or Ninja Turtles and haven't read this series yet, then you really owe it to yourself to check it out! . . . . . and if you are a fan of BOTH then you NEED to read this!!!! not even an option!!!

nice art, abysmal story. the plot is just idiotic, and the "characters" are two-dimensional cartoons. the first one was really good, this one is just a low effort cash grab. if i could go back in time i'd have skipped the garbage. i truly regret wasting my money on it.

this first issue of the Batman / Tmnt Adventures cross-over was a LOT of fun!!! . . . . . . . first off i want to say just how ABSOLUTELY BE-YOO-TIFUL the art is!!! . . . . . Jon Sommariva has done plenty of great looking covers for the recent cartoon-based Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics by IDW. . . . . he might have done a back-up story here of there? . . . but this is the first time i've ever seen him draw an entire story, and it looks fantastic!! . . . the guy really has some amazing compositions and visual story-telling ability! . . . . the events of the story are a lot of fun as well. . . . . banter between Batman and Alfred was very amusing. . . . some of the banter between the Ninja Turtle brother's was a little hit or miss. . . . but there were still some moments that that put a smile on my fave like when Michelangelo came up with a new nickname for one of Batman's rouge gallery. . . . . . the name Mikey picked, and just how annoyed (spoiler_reveal_withheld) was getting every time Mikey kept calling him it was actually REALLY funny!!! ^__^ . . . . . there were more Rogues from Batman TaS that had me absolutely GIDDY for the upcoming issues of this series!!! . . . . even though it's kiddy-cartoon-based i still highly recommend checking it out!! . . . . there were some beautiful variant covers made for this series as well!

ok! so this is a Goofy and Silly comic ( VERY SILLY ) but it's also a lot of fun as well.
there were quite a number of times this issue gave me a REALLY good laugh!!!

some fans aren't going to enjoy the 'kiddie' or 'cartoony' tone to the comic, but i actually had a lot of fun reading this.
also i'm an absolute sucker for Batman The Animated Series, so i was reading the through Kevin Conroy/Mark Hamill colored lenses.

the personalities for Robin and Batgirl didn't feel quite like their cartoon counterparts, but they were both good in the story.

the Ninja Turtles felt pretty close to character from the Nickelodeon cartoon. Shredder didn't feel like the threatening character that he usually does.
it was pretty hysterical seeing the Nickelodeon version of Donatello's reaction to seeing Batgirl for the first time!

Jon Sommariva's art is ABSOLUTELY beautiful!!!!!
just for his art alone guarantees i'll be picking up the next issue, as well as more than likely coming back for the Collected edition.

even though it's not of the same quality as the first Batman/Tmnt cross-over, at least we don't have to wait till the end of the mini-series for the A-List Batman villains to start showing up.

this comic series is goofy and silly, and definitely screams 'Kiddie Cartoon'.
and although there is some fun to be had with this series, i really needed to come back to this comic after i was more accepting of a more silly mindset.
my first attempt at reading this today my mind just couldn't get into it.

the art is very beautiful to look at, but the Joker looking off-model of the Btas design was very distracting.
and as much as i try to hear Mark Hamill's Joker voice coming from him, i just can't picture it.
maybe more of Troy Baker's Joker voice, but not Hamill's.

otherwise there are some very cool looking Panels, and i love the way Sommariva draws Batman!
he is drawn a little more fleshed out than in Btas, but that's not a bad thing
Sommariva is also no stranger to drawing the Turtles and they ALL look great!!

i know the Joker is unpredictable and a wild card...
but what happens between the Joker and Shredder i really a stretch of the imagination!
it's a kiddie comic and all, but COME ON!!!
i'd have bought into it more if he'd had him slip on a Banana peal,
but Joker has already taken out Simon Hurt with that gag.

the humor is still really funny at parts.
when Raphael tries sassing Robin, only to have Robin sass him right back really gave me a good laugh!

next to issue #1 this has to have been my favorite issue of the mini-series yet!!!
aside from an absolutely beautiful cover and gorgeous art inside, SO many awesome things happen!

Joker having subdued Shredder with Joker-toxin and taken over the over the Foot Clan.
Harley Quinn's Hyenas getting mutated.
the Foot-bot soldiers being made-up with creepy Joker-grins.
one of the most awesome things in this issue was Scarecrow and his fear-toxin.
the hallucinations the heroes see are quite horrific even for a kid's book!!! ...BRAVO!!!

this issue reinforces my satisfaction of hopping aboard with this mini.
i really hope the quality of the next two issues keeps up as high as this one.

as for the next issue, i'm really excited for the next Batman rogue teased at the cliffhanger.
sure this series is very 'kiddie' and immature at parts, but i'm kind of liking the pacing of the plot and interaction with heroes and villains in this Batman/Tmnt cross-over than the last one.
the first cross-over was great, but it felt like way too much set up.
this one gets right to the nitty gritty!

this was a big set up issue to the series, but it was very well done! Peter J. Tomasi has an excellent voice for the characters, and Patrick Gleason delivers some of the most beautiful artwork this side of Gotham! it's a shame this series had to get treated the way it did (killing off one of the main characters halfway through the run) and then having the series get cancelled right after he was brought back! i had the pleasure of meeting Peter J. Tomasi, and i thanked him for bringing us back Damian Wayne. and he admitted that he was responsible for pushing for that. and as i was telling him how much i was enjoying Patrick Gleason's run of the new 'Robin: Son of Batman' series, he said that he pushed Gleason to go for that series! thank you again Peter for all that you have brought to the Bat-verse!

out of any comic series of DC's New 52 Peter Tomasi and Pat Gleason's Batman & Robin has to be my absolute favorite! . . . . . even though my most loved DC series was Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated, that didn't really feel like it truly fell into that category of 'New 52' criteria. Batman Inc. was a continuation of what Grant had already started with his arc beginning with Batman Issue #655 in 2006. . . . . . Tomasi's Batman & Robin series truly felt like it was a proper batman reboot, even though it did have nod's to all the story arcs that preceded it. . . . . . another reason why i love this collection so much is we see the return of Damian Wayne who was killed in Batman Incorporated issue #8. . . . . . i'm not sure why Batman Inc. was forced into the New 52? it didn't feel like it fit with any of the DC re-boot. and forcing it into the New 52 also meant that the Death of Damian Wayne had to be reflected in all the other Batman books as well. nice going DC editorial! bunch of idiots! . . . . . thank you Peter Tomasi! you are responsible for bringing back one of my favorite DC characters! and the scene of Damian and Alfred's proper hello is priceless! . . . . . thank you for that! :D

i really wanted this issue to make up for the several last few weeks of complete disappointment to make me feel like i didn’t just waste my time and money! . . . . . well, unfortunately i’ve wasted BOTH!!! . . . . . there were so many plot holes in this poorly constructed story! and obvious cases were the characters just come off as complete idiots! . . . . . the biggest bunch of baloney is the heroes didn’t even really defeat the main villain. she was about to escape when ‘Orphan’ who had his throat slit a few issues back, comes out of nowhere and stabs ‘Mother’ in the back (and out her chest) and plunges them both into molten Lava. i love a book when the Heroes just have to sit back while the villains just kill each other off! . . . . VERY LAZY WRITING!!!!! . . . . . some of the art was serviceable? . . . . . some of the art was plain hideous!!!! . . . . . there were a few panels that looked pretty cool, but nothing that blew me away. . . . . . the sad thing this series has left me with is that DC has screwed the pooch with all their weekly comics within the last year or two! ALL of them were a complete waste!!! . . . . . now do i want to keep giving them my money now that most of their books are going bi-weekly? i've seen their attention to quality . . . . . or LACK there of !!!!! . . . . . . . . . . this was a total waste of $78.74 ! ! ! ! . . . i demand a REFUND!!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . it's a sad day to be a DC fan! :(

i find this story is absolutely addicting!!! never once have i read this book without having finished it, then having to start it all over from the beginning at least one or two more times. usually i read this story cover to cover in a series of three. don't know? ....maybe i have Batman RIP OCD? the story follows the club of villains as they plot to sabotage Batman and pervert all that he holds sacred. Grant has brilliantly written the villain Simon Hurt into Batman's 75 year history, as well as pull references from almost every era and event of Batman's comic publication. this is Batman written at his finest! others have often tried to imitated this, but have never even come close to replicating it. in Grant's own words- "i wanted to create the ultimate Batman." me personally, i say he truly did! Tony Daniel does his best to keep up with Grant. his art was still a bit rough back then, but he does a serviceable job of it.

while i normally quite enjoy Mike Allred's art, this was just an insufferable story to slog through. Bring back BATMAN '66, but PLEASE do not make Allred have to draw garbage like this. You can even see how much he was not enjoying having to draw this within each panel. Poor guy was probably gritting his teeth the entire time.

While the writing is just okay, the art of this series are what won me over. It is nice to have a no-nonsense/non-deconstructive Batman story, even if is is a bit too grimdark for my taste. The pacing and art sequencing are excellent. Look forward to seeing where this story goes with cautious optimism.

Geoff Johns should be banned from ever writing Batman. I'd give Gary Frank some points for his beautiful artwork, BUT his complicity in bringing this turd of a story to life earns him penalty points!

utter garbage ending for an utter garbage series!!! DC Comics and everyone involved in the rotten series should be ashamed of themselves! it was full of plot holes, loose ends, and terrible characterizations! and the worse part was is was 52 issues! FIFTY TWO FREAKING ISSUES!!!! ... and more than 9/10 of them were frikken TERRIBLE!!!!! .......so .....Riddle me THIS, Batman ....how do you spread 6 or 7 issues worth of story across 52 issues worth of comic books? the answer's simple! ... ask the geniuses who put together this awful series? .... Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Ray Fawkes, Kyle Higgins and Tim Seeley should ALL be ashamed to put their names on this garbage! . . . . . this was a complete waste of $156.48

There was so much wrong with this story, I don't even know where to begin! This story is very pedestrian. There is nothing especially enjoyable about it, that warrants yet another Batman book on the market. The art looks rushed. The characters of Batman and villains feel off. Gary Whitta did little to no research before slopping out this story. This version of Penguin is especially trash. This writer really does not get Batman at all, nor does he deserve to write him! ***EDIT*** It seems that this comic has attracted a very unstable reader with multiple accounts. This person is hounding me under their various CBRU profiles. Seeing people behave like this over a cartoon book is absolutely pathetic.

This writer really does not understand The Flash, both personality nor powers. Superman is still being missing for "reasons" just seems like a lazy cop-out. Cyborg dies from having his cybernetic body cut in half? This writer really didn't do any research before writing these characters. The family at the end being completely cool with a bunch of strange extraterrestrials just waltzing into their home was extremely contrived. The multitude of so many Batman books out there, this one really does nothing to justify it's existence.

UHG! this was so painfully bad! >SPOILER WARNING< A whole lot of nothing happens, except this hack unceremoniously kills off Perry White. Oh! and Batman drinks coffee now, where-as many writers over the years stress that Bruce strictly stays away from any stimulants. Even WORSE! Batman not only tell Lex Luthor about Superman's secret hideout, but asking him to help him raid it was a complete LOAD!!! calling Gary Whitta a "HACK" is an insult to hacks! >END SPOILERS< The art was very messy and inconstant. Bruce looks emaciated in some panels, then has a bloated face in others. but seriously, not much really happened to advance this "plot", and we're now 3 issues in. Out of all the Batman comics on the shelves, there was absolutely no need for this one existing.

This comic kills brain cells, as well as sperm count.

"Gary Whitta is tha BESTEST EVARRRR! The people that hate this comic are just (insert pretentious self righteous bullshit here) Now let me tell you just how virtuous I am. I'm so virtuous, that I shit lollypops 24/7!"

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Most current modern comics leave me feeling mostly indifferent. They're so unenjoyable these days, that I don't even bother talking about them online. I'd rather spend any spare time I have enjoying back-issues. This series seemed like it might be intriguing at first, but it quickly soured. It's been a chore reading it the first time. We finally get to TWO big reveals in this issue, and all i can say is - •W• •T• •F• ??? (((SPOILERS for this absolute garbage))) So Superman's family from Krypton were corrupt and power-hungry war-mongers who invaded countless worlds. They made so many enemies who finally retaliated by weaponizing the Kryptonian sun to destroy the planet Krypton. This is the cheapest, laziest, most pretentious character deconstruction I have ever read. OH! and Superman has been asleep in the Fortress of Solitude this entire time. I guess when Batman scanned the entire world to try finding Superman, at no point did he scan the Fortress of Solitude. What a joke this tediously little series has been! Gary Whitta, you should have your crayons taken away!

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absolute pretentious dog§#!†!!! can't say i was surprised.

ok! first off, Kelley Jones’s art- WOW!!! The Joker's voice in this story is pitch perfect! the banter and antics between Batman & Joker was Gold! and i love that Scott Peterson writes a really bad-ass Batman of action! in this story, Batman is confident, competent, Man of few words, and he don't take NO guff from NOBODY! This Batman get's it DONE!! this is some of the BEST story sequencing i've ever seen Kelley Jones illustrate thus far! Batman comes off as menacing and someone you would not want to mess with. and the Rogues of Arkham look GREAT! Kelley Jones's Scarecrow also looks especially horrifying! this comic for me is actually be more of a 9.1 or 9.2 in score. Fast paced! Action packed! Terrific art! i really enjoyed this comic SO much! looks like it's going to be a fun ride!!

i really enjoyed this comic a lot. Writer Scott Peterson has Batman trapped in a surreal nightmarish world. Kelley Jones crafts hauntingly beautiful art. the environments were both horrifying yet had a dreamlike enchantment. it looks like stage lighting from some ghostly opera. i really liked the presentation of the shifts in reality. it's clear that Batman is undergoing the effects of Scarecrow's fear-toxin, and is doing his best to fight through it. i also really appreciated the acknowledgement from the previous issue, that Batman actually saved the man's life that had his throat slashed by the Joker.

the beginning of this issue feels a bit disconnected from where we left off from the previous issue. i wasn’t 100% sure as to what was going on right away, though i was still able to enjoy the visual storytelling. if what i interpreted from previous issues is true, some of this could be that Batman is still hallucination from Scarecrow’s fear toxin. Scarecrow has a hostage and is threatening them if Batman doesn't do his bidding. i’ll admit this isn’t the greatest story ever told, but i’m still enjoying it for it’s creepiness. i do really like Scott Peterson’s depiction of Batman. he has a very good voice for the character. this is the confident, no-nonsense Batman that i've been missing! this series will probably read much better in one sitting, rather than month to month. but for now the art is really doing all the heavy lifting. and the art is absolutely gorgeous! Kelley Jones’s pencils and inks meld so well with the colors. a quality about the art that i am really enjoying is how animated it feels. it almost looks as though the figures are about to leap right off the page. plus the use of light and shadow is very dramatic and sculptural. this comic is worth my $3.99 just for Kelley Jones's art alone!

this issue was alright. it tried a bit too hard to be profound. not sure how much fun it'll be upon re-reads though. the art was still nice as ever. Kelley Jones art alone is worth the price tag.

the art is still as beautiful as ever. i really enjoy the surreal dreamlike/nightmarish style of the narrative. ((((Spoilers)))) it was very interesting to see where the Scarecrow speculated that he and the other rogues of Gotham would be without Batman. though i still can't imagine how he'd actually be able to know all this. it was pretty funny seeing Batman flop around like a rag doll, and Scarecrow easily pushing him over. ((((end spoilers)))) i'm just not sure that we really needed 6 issues to tell this story. though for more of Kelley Jones's art, i'm not going to complain.

out of all of the stories written for Kelley Jones to illustrate, i've enjoyed 'Batman Red Rain' (and the Vampire Trilogy) the most. 'Gotham After Midnight' is probably a close 2nd, and 'Batman Kings of Fear' follows somewhere behind that one. the series was thankfully short. it probably could have been even shorter? this issue was ok. but the never ending moments of catharsis (one after another) got to be a bit much. i enjoyed this series mainly for the art. besides that there's not much else i can recommend about this series.

More suicide fetish trash from Tom King. ....and he humps Alan Moore's leg on this one. HARD!

this comic was very run by the numbers and pedestrian, but i still found it very entertaining. the highlights of this issue comic for me were- -Damian’s fascination with a Cheese themed videogame -the reference to Batman 666 -the reference and handling of Dick Grayson -the way Selina Kyle was portrayed i think my absolute favorite part of the story was seeing Selina and Damian finally have a heart to heart conversation. i really do not know what this sort of thing wasn’t addressed within the main Batman book long ago? or why it needs to be put off into a supplementary title by another writer? but seeing how things have been going in the main Batman book lately, maybe this is for the best? the art was weird for me. there were things i liked very much about the art, but a few of the drawings were off. there were several distracting flaws within this comic that took me out of the story, but overall i found it to be a very fun read. this comic definitely isn't for everyone. but if you enjoy Damian Wayne as a character, then you may want to check it out. i am definitely along for the ride. . . . . for now.

this was an alright issue with some nice moments. i'm still very perplexed as to why the public is being made aware to Batman marrying Catwoman instead of Bruce Wayne marrying Selina Kyle. they could say it's because everyone knows Selina is a notorious thief, but Dick Grayson was recently outed as Nightwing and the entire world's mind was wiped of this info via a Super McGuffin mind-erasing Satellite. an idea created in a series by Tom King and Tim Seeley. so why not apply this to Selina as well. the alternate universe Nightwing and Hush went to was creepy. there was some great moments between Batman, Supes, and Nightwing. even a nice heartfelt conversation between Bruce and Dick at the end. i'm enjoying this series a lot more than the main Batman book.

i guess Batman has abandoned the using of Code-names in the field? characters call each other by their first and last names. . . . . Jim Gordon is useless in this issue, Alfred is also just THERE, no witty banter, no personality, no purpose other than to pick avocados. Bruce and Duke's interactions with one another just feels stiff and forced. . . . . and speaking of stiff . . . . the art . . . . although it's rendered in a life-like style, it's not dynamic at all. not very exciting to look at. . . . . there's an entire page wasted on Batman jumping into freezing cold water searching for a weather machine which he finds immediately. so Batman can't use an oxygen tank because it will freeze, but how is his body not going into shock from the freezing cold? why isn't he killed from the blast of the explosive? . . . . . . . . . Calendar man now shed's his old body with a new one every year. ok. . . . Bruce still trains by destroying trees? . . . . i get you want a 'year one' reference, but trying to kick down a tree?! i thought Batman was past this sort of thing? ... THE WORST PART was Bruce publicly hanging off a building doing one-armed pull-ups with sweaty palms just to SHOW OFF!!!! SO DUMB! . . . . . had this been my introduction to Batman years ago, i don't think i'd have become a Batman fan! . . . . skip it.

Batman- More decompressed garbage from Tom King. Terrible visual storytelling. Dull repeating art. Edgy trash Tom King ending. Keep these idiots away from Batman. Stormwatch- More shoving Ghost-maker down our throats. Hate the panel layouts. Art is too zoomed in. Superman- Does no one understand visual storytelling anymore? Why must the art be so zoomed in close? Heroes of Tomorrow- Not up to Dan Mora's usual standard of storytelling. He needs the guidance of working with a writer. I don't see this series lasting very long.

DC must love failure that they keep having tom king write "Batman" stories. horrifically bad storytelling and art.

Yet another pretentious load of crap from tom king. He's honestly the absolute worst Batman writer of all time. Why DC continues to allow him to sully their most popular character is beyond me?! All the typical tropes are on display. 9 panel grids, meaningless time-skips, terrible dialogue, entire pages checkered with artless panels of text, senseless violence/gore, terrible dialogue, Bat-family punching each other in the face, terrible dialogue, Batman humiliated and shamed, terrible dialogue, nihilism, more terrible dialogue... Do yourself a HUGE favor .... AVOID!!!

of all the many Batman books that were out at the launch of The New 52, this was the "Odd-ball". this series (Pre-New 52) was basically created for the sole purpose of artist David Finch. David had Just signed exclusivity with DC Comics, and when asked what he wanted to draw replied Batman. Due to the time it usually takes David to both write and draw a comic, he wasn't always able to meet the monthly deadlines. for this reason the regular Batman series and Detective comics were not on the table, so now he had his very own Batman comic to do as he pleased. the original run had only gotten about 5 issues completed before the relaunch happened. now post re-launch, just where does this series fit in? ...well, it's not exactly the most amazing comic series ever written, but DAMN is the art beautiful!!! if your looking for beautiful art, check it out! but if you're looking for a deep story, then look elsewhere.

There were some bits in here that worked, but a LOT that just didn’t. Bruce being so closely tied to Hugo strange way before he’d even became Batman? Way too orchestrated! Bruce having the ability to torment a bully without getting caught as a child is just poor writing. It undermines all the years that Bruce Wayne had to train to be Batman, because Zdarsky would like you to think that Bruce was inherently Batman already. Plus the overused “darkness”. Bruce is such a dark and brooding kid. Ooooh he’s out for vengeance, and he’s taking it to the bullies. Gee! Would anyone really not think that this kid would NOT grow up to be Batman??? Especially now giving Bruce Wayne a history of being caught in underground fighting, FFS!!! Zdarsky has basically made Bruce Wayne the most likely candidate in a list of suspects of WHO would be Batman!! Zdarsky also relies on the crutch of giving us yet another insert disposable love interest. How many of these disposable early love interests has Bruce now had? Still, i cannot get passed Bruce seeing Hugo Strange of all people for treatment. Especially this early on in his life. Zdarsky has made Bruce smart enough to be able to torment bullies undetected, yet he makes it painfully obvious to everyone around him that he has anger issues and is vindictive. This version of Bruce just is not very smart at all. In fact, he’s an angry lunk head. The art was ok, but was not enough to to make up for this cliched, predictable and pretentious story.

not worth eight bucks!!! nice art throughout, but only one good story out of the whole bunch. and i'm not even 100% sure about how i felt about that one. will try re-reading it to see if i feel compelled to read on. but for eight funky @$% dollars, i'm not so sure about that.

the best thing that ever happened to this series was Writer Judd Winick and Artist Guillem March. the first 6 issues were fantastic! unfortunately this comic was heavily scrutinized by uptight prudes. so their next arc felt like it was taking the "safe route" and suffered because of it. Winick left and the series, and it has meandered ever since.

Really nice art in the Burnham story, but the writing was pretty bad. Did not enjoy the 2nd story at all. I honestly don't see this series lasting very long.

Williamson is such a mediocre writer. This was a real nothing burger. Absolutely no interest in reading the next issue.

I'm not sure how I'd slept on this mini-series? The was AWESOME!!! Need to catch up on this!!

this issue was so exciting when i first read it! this was the grand re-launching of DC's Flagship series Detective Comics for The New 52. when i found out is was featuring Batman versus his arch-nemesis The Joker i was ecstatic! Tony Daniel's art was beautiful eye-candy to behold. and the story was entertaining enough. i loved every thing about this issue up until the very end. the whole face-skinning never sat quite right with me. sadly editorial disrupted the original direction Tony Daniel had planned for this story, and made the face-skinning not just a hoax played by the Joker. eventually Tony Daniel left the series and it as been passed along by various creative teams to Mixed results. it's been an ok to decent series, but it's not something i'd stand by as a "must read".

FINALLY!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........a Batman comic that ACTUALLY feels like a Batman comic!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . welcome BACK Batman!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it's been FAR too long!!!

Rebirth Detective Comics really feels like we've finally gotten back to classic Batman stories as we've known them. . . . . . . . . the characters feel natural in how they interact with one another. . . . . no one is acting out of character, and it doesn't feel cheap and gimmicky for mere shock value. . . . . . one of the best things in this i really like is the depiction of Cassandra Cain. . . . . . . if you're looking at one or the other for a quality Batman story, i highly recommend this title over the other.

pretty mediocre issue. . . . . . . hope it gets back on track. . . . . . . . James Tynion IV most of the time is serviceable, but he's hit of miss. . . . . . . this issue was sadly a miss.

out of the 2 Rebirth Batman comics out now, i still feel this is the better written of the two. definitely picking up the slack from last issue. will read better as a trade. the art is really really great!

things are really getting tense now as the story builds to it's climax. . . . . . we get a backstory of Batwoman and her father that explain their motivations, and show that they are both pursuing the same goal if not by different means. but it adds a lot of depth the his motivations. . . . . . . . . . some nice moments showcasing each member of the Bat-family, each one gets their own moment to shine. . . . . . . . . this is without a doubt the strongest Batman title since the start of rebirth. and after reading 'All-Star Batman' i can easily say that 'Detective Comics' is by far the best of the current Batman titles on the shelf!!! . . . . . . . this issue only loses a few points due to a few bits were the art gets a bit sloppy, and loses it's structure. . . . . . . but with a rushed bi-weekly schedule that's unavoidable.

another solid issue in a run that is easily becoming one of my favorite Batman stories in years!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i won't spoil what exactly what it was, but 'The Black-line' bit of the story was pretty frikken DOPE!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . also, VERY awesome scene with Clayface!!! . . . but the way the issue ended . . . . . all i can say is - . . . . . Damn Tim Drake, . . . . you crazy, selfless, SON OF A B@%$#!!!!!!!

HOLY F$%#&$G S%$#!!!!!! ........ THAT WAS SO F%&$#@G AWESOME!!!!!!! ............ i can't ...... i can't put it into words!!!!!!!! ........... just SO F%&$#@G INTENSE!!!!!! ............. READ THIS COMIC!!!! .......... it's truly the BEST F&#@$%G Batman comic on the F&%#@%G market right now!!!! . . . . i don't want to give any spoilers, so please just trust me and read this comic!

if you've only been reading 'Detective Comics' and neither of 'Batman' or 'Nightwing', you can safely skip this issue!!! . . . . . . things were going so well for this run up until NOW ! ! ! ! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this may be the most comprehensible issue from the 'Night of the Monster Men' thus far?? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but it still suffers from the shortcomings of the first two issues of the cross-over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i really wish they would have just left this series out of this mess ! ! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Detective Comics was going so good up until now! . . . . . . . . . the final page did give me a good laugh!!! . . . . .. . . . . though i don't think they were trying to be funny???? . . . . . at least i don't think they were???

finally back on track! . . . . . . . not the best issue in the run, but FAR from the worst!!!! . . . . that award goes to issues #941 & #942 ! ! ! . . . . . . . it's good to have a decent current Batman comic on the shelves. . . . . . . lord knows the other two Batman titles aren't worth a hill of beans.

a decent enough comic. Tim Drake’s presence is sorely missed in this series. now that Tim is out of the picture though i really thought there’d be more focus on Clayface and Casandra Cain? . . . . . . Batwing is an ok addition to the line-up. he does remind me a bit of Iron-Man/Tony Stark for some reason? . . . . . . the new villains are cool looking, but they feel a bit over-powered for characters that we’ve never heard of before. Mr. Noxious can poison people to death with zero contact, the mute can stop Batman from talking in mid-sentence. i can see giving your characters a challenge, but let’s at least try to suspend disbelief. . . . . . this issue had some decent moments, but i found it very difficult to keep up with the plethora of characters crammed into this story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i say DITCH Harper Row and give Casandra more to do in this comic. . . . . the pacing of the story hits a lull about 3/4 in. . . . . . i'm not sure whether to laugh or or consider Luke Fox a jerk for sitting in Red Robin's seat?

the villains being extremely and completely over-powered has taken me out of the story.
suspension of disbelief - - RIGHT out the window!!
i like the idea behind them, but they feel too unbeatable.

i’m not liking Stephanie Brown as a character too much either. what is her real purpose other than to lament over Tim and be a nag to Batman?
Pre-Flashpoint Batman would have fired her by now, instead of just grounding her.
this series is really suffering from far too many characters to deal with properly. it’s feeling very jumbled.

we finally get to spend some quality time with Clayface! something this series has been sorely lacking from, and desperately NEEDS!!!
his face coming undone as he relived a past trauma during a psych evaluation was truly POWERFUL! probably one of the best moments in this entire series other than Tim Drake’s “Sacrifice”.

Stephanie turns on the Mud-Room to talk to a simulation of Tim. i’m not really sure what that’s supposed to resolve?

this issue made me realize something that's been SORELY missing from this series!!! TIM DRAKE ! ! ! !
i enjoy some of Tynion's writing quite a bit, but at times he does tend to get very wordy. though i don't mind all the dialog when used in an emotionally powerful scene like the one between Clayface and Glory.
some of Tynion's character's feel very real and believable to me, though others i'm not 100% sold on.
overall i really like this comic series, i just don't love it.

i will say the artwork is definitely top notch though!

A VERY EXCELLENT START! i held my expectations going into this one, but i was very pleasantly surprised. Detective Comics was really dragging through the mud for a while there, and now Peter Tomasi has come with a mop and a bucket to do some much needed course correcting. thankfully so! it's about time we finally had a decent Batman title out there. this was a fully charged strong issue to start off Tomasi's run. characters act the way they should act, talk the way they should talk. the story had my full interest, took a few surprising turns, and the art was really great as well. the cliffhanger was a real shocker! a really great start and i can't wait to see where the story goes from here. Doug Mahnke's art was in top form. Jaime Mendoza's ink complimented the pencils very well. the colors were really great as well. pound for pound, this was a really awesome comic!

....and with this issue, now there really IS no hope in Crime Alley. it's GREAT to have Tomasi writing a Batman comic again. the plot(so far) might be a bit thin, but it really is INTENSE!! overall this comic shows that Tomasi is still one of the best Batman writers in recent years. this issue was a real page turner. and just as all hoe seems to be lost, we are given a slight bit before having it ripped away. ...and then another sucker punch to the gut. i really love Tomasi's voice for Bruce as well as Alfred. they feel completely in character. i like how Bruce seems mostly in control, even in the most dire situations. then when push comes to shove, Bruce rolls up his sleeves, puts on his ass kicking boots and gets to it. the 'Year One' nod with the bell was well done. i really liked the casual mention of Damian, but i could have totally done without the mention of Owls. Batman's demeanor throughout the issue . . . SPOT ON!!! the art looked a little bit rushed, but still very solid and very enjoyable. for all the minor hiccups, this is comic is easily a definite recommend.

an alright issue. Tomasi’s first two issues of this run came out of the gate really strong, this one started a lot slower. it needed to make up for the lack of story from the more action and suspense based storytelling from the previous issues. it’s still a good issue though. still was cool seeing Batman actually being a detective. even though i understand why it needed to be there, wasn’t crazy about the reminder of the current relationship issues between Bruce and Damian, though i did like that Damian dropped everything and came to Alfred’s aid. i also enjoyed Tomasi’s callback to his first arc on New52 Batman & Robin.

i swear this Tomasi Detective run keeps getting better and BETTER!!! this is the BAD-ASS Batman that i’ve been missing! no nonsense, logical, a great detective, a great escape artist, a great fighter. ALL the things Batman SHOULD be! Tomasi’s dialog is excellent! it’s natural and engaging, and there’s even subtle bits of humor. the zany deathtrap right out of a 70’s Batman comic was a really nice touch. even the way Batman handles himself calm and cool, this really feels like a classic story by Denny O’Neil & Neal Adams taken to the next level! as for the art… the art is terrific!!! i like the way the inking compliments Doug Mahnke’s pencils. the best thing about this run so far... it's FUN!!!!! finally having a good new Batman comic i that i can look forward to enjoying… suddenly the world seems a brighter place.

this series continues to be very enjoyable. but i do have a few gripes with this issue. if we are talking about people that helped make Batman, WHERE is Lucius Fox???! i renjoy Tomasi’s version of Batman. he gives a great voice for Batman and continues to make him a bad-ass. Mahnke’s art continues to shine. his Batman, Hellbat and Etrigan all looked great. even though the fights ended quickly and the plot is moving a bit fast, the action was still fun. i really felt Silias Stone was out of place here. the story SHOULD HAVE used Lucius Fox! Lucius has a long standing history of developing Batman's tech. choosing to go with Silias stone made absolutely no sense. it felt very forced and took me out of the story. i was also confused at the ending. is that supposed to be... ((((((SPOILERS))))))((((((SPOILERS)))))) ((((((SPOILERS))))))((((((SPOILERS)))))) ((((((SPOILERS))))))((((((SPOILERS)))))) ((((((SPOILERS))))))((((((SPOILERS)))))) ...some kind of manifestation of young Bruce Wayne? it was really weird. and doesn't have me all that excited. ((((((END SPOILERS))))))((((((END SPOILERS)))))) ((((((END SPOILERS))))))((((((END SPOILERS)))))) ((((((END SPOILERS))))))((((((END SPOILERS)))))) ((((((END SPOILERS))))))((((((END SPOILERS))))))

after last issue i really didn’t know what to expect, but this was an absolute pleasant surprise. this arc by Tomasi kept feeling reminiscent of Len Wein's story ‘The Untold Legend of the Batman’, and even more-so in this conclusion issue. the beginning of this issue was only ok, but as it went on it got really really good. the moment after the conflict ended was especially touching. i really loved the message this arc presented. it gave a positive light to Bruce Wayne and his mission as Batman. yes, his life was destroyed by tragedy, but it's not all just grim misery and despair. Bruce ultimately became Batman because he wants to save people from the fate suffered by him and his parents. the epilogue (especially in light of Detective Comics #995) was absolutely fantastic!! these are the moments that i love when Tomasi writes. overall i really enjoyed the hell out of this arc. looking forward to seeing where Tomasi goes with his Detective run.

THIS WAS NOT WORTH the $9.99!!! all that hype for nothing! i had such high hopes for this landmark issue, but it was truly disappointing. nice art, but the writing was either Bad or just 'Meh'. very standard and uninspired. New52's Detective comics #27 was much better than this.

really enjoyed this issue. great dialog, fast paced story, plenty of action, and an intriguing mystery. Tomasi really gets Bruce. his voice, his mannerisms, his ethics, how he handles himself in situations. the interactions between Bruce and Gordon were short but effective. you could feel the weight between these two as brothers at arms. the interactions between Bruce and Alfred were strong as well. two people faced with a conflict, handling themselves the best they can under the given situation. the Arkham knight had a very strong entrance. not much yet revealed, but very compelled to see where this goes. one thing i was thrilled at was the removal of the new52's handling of the Man-Bat family. this feels more true to the characters as first introduced. the art was a real delight as well. very animated cartoonish style, with just the right amount of detail. good start to the second arc.

WOW!!! this comic drew me RIGHT in!! the comic started really action packed and adrenaline fueled. the art is incredibly dynamic, the panels are nicely paced, and the story INTENSE!! most importantly i am enjoying the HELL out of this version of Batman! if ever there were a crisis, THIS is the guy i'd want watching my back! not a lot of info is given able the Arkham Knight, but he made a great entrance and i am intrigued! an absolutely WONDERFUL moment between Batman and Jim Gordon. THIS is the relationship between these two that i want to see. i absolutely LOVE Tomasi's version of Alfred! his sarcastic wit is spot on! loved his response to Commissioner Gordon through the Batmobile! VERY happy to see Damian in action! Tomasi writes one of the best versions of Damian Wayne, right next to Grant Morrison. it's been far too long since we've seen Damian's dog Titus. very welcome indeed! the cliffhanger has me on pins and needles for the next issue! i have a feeling i know who the Arkham Knight is, but really i hope i'm wrong!

this run continues to be very enjoyable and fun. i cannot praise it enough. i am really glad the Arkham Knight wasn’t who i thought it was. (((SPOILER)))and no, i didn’t think that it was Jason Todd.(((END SPOILER))) i really loved Damian’s response to learning who the Arkham Knight’s identity was, as well as his taunts to the Arkham Knight’s zealots. i really enjoy how Peter Tomasi write’s Batman dialog as he deduces and detects. his dialog for Bruce & Damian continues to be pitch perfect. i really like how both characters are written to be very cerebral, logical, and of high intelligence. as they should be. it was excellent to see Tomasi show how gifted and artist Damian Wayne is, as he had previously established in his New52 Batman&Robin run. this definitely feels like a nice continuation of that run. definitely points to Tomasi for keeping continuity and consistency from what he’s written before. i even enjoyed the casual nod to Damian's formal introduction in Grant Morrison's Batman run, to which Tomasi was the editor of. another thing thing i’m also absolutely loving in this story-arc is the art. it’s cartoonish, but has a nice rendering and high detail. it also continues to be very dynamic and action packed. one thing i will say about the Arkham Knight and Zealots, is they are truly NUTS! i appreciated the reveal to who the Knight's identity is. ((((MINOR SPOILER))))((((MINOR SPOILER))))((((MINOR SPOILER)))) ((((MINOR SPOILER))))if you've read Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum, you get the significance of the Arkham Knight's heritage.((((END MINOR SPOILER))))((((END MINOR SPOILER))))((((END MINOR SPOILER)))) if you haven’t checked out this run yet, you really should.

there were things i did enjoy about this issue, mostly the art. the art was excellent. but the big shocking reveal for the motivation behind the Arkham Knight was extremely forced and very poorly handled. like i said there were good things about the issue, but i'm honestly very disappointed. will go into more detail later after i've had a chance to re-read this.

before i start pulling this apart, i'd like to say there were things i absolutely enjoyed about this comic. unfortunately the Arkham Knight, her motivations, as well as her master plan were just DUMB!!! ABSOLUTELY dumb!!!! -i loved the action -the art was extremely beautiful at parts -it was awesome to FINALLY see Batman & Robin working as a team again. ...probably the first time since Tomasi's (New52 Batman & Robin) series ended. -i particularly loved seeing Bruce and Damian working together like a well oiled machine. it was an absolute pleasure to behold. pity we had to wait so many years to see this while DC forced Scott Snyder's dull Duke Thomas on us. he's almost as bad a character as that horrible Harper Row. now my gripes with this comic. Arkham Knight sucks! she's a lame two dimensional villain with a weak origin, and an even weaker purpose. she wants to blind the city to get back at Batman, because she thinks Batman murdered her mother? you'd think one of the Arkham inmates who was there when her mom was killed (whom she was supposedly SO close with) would have told her the truth. i mean how many years ago was this? plus i still don't buy into Batman not knowing about any of this. the art was good, the action was fun, plus i LOVE Tomasi's voices for Batman, Robin and Alfred. so for those nice pluses i bump my score a bit from being only a 5 or 6. hope we never see this Akham Knight ever again!!! and if we do see her, hopefully she shows up just to be immediately killed off.

i . . really . . L O V E D . . this . . issue ! ! ! i am absolutely nuts for this Gothic style of Batman story! it felt like some of the spooky Batman stories from the late 70’s. the art by Kyle Hotz was really amazing, and added to the tone as well. Great action and Great art combined with Tomasi’s usual Bad-ass version of Batman in a Noir story, and i could not be happier!!! i love these short and sweet 2 issue arcs as well. they are usually some of the most fun! really feels like this story came out of the early bronze age. The Spectre is a great character when done right, and that’s what we got here! this story was haunting, eerie and had just the right amount of gore without being gratuitous. really looking forward to the second installment of this arc.

this was such an enjoyable story arc!! it could have easily went on for another issue or two, but i’m glad it didn’t overstay it’s welcome. short and sweet. this is the type of Batman story i truly enjoy reading. a detective story with a gothic fantasy-like overtone. Batman & the Spectre make a great pairing. it was awesome to see Batman as grim and brutal as he is actually have to play the “Good Cop”. it lead to a very interesting dynamic between the two. the story was very dark, shrouded with lots of shadows. there was a decent amount of gore, but not too much. Kyle Hotz artwork was right at home for Batman and Gotham City. the art reminded me a tiny bit of Simon Bisley and James O’Barr. i like the tall athletic build that Hotz illustrates for Batman. a good heroic body-type with strong chiseled facial features. there were a few areas where i thought the structure of the figures could have been developed a bit more, but it wasn’t too overly distracting. it was still had a nice dynamic gothic style which was very enjoyable to look at. one thing that really makes me happy is just how well Peter Tomasi gets Batman. i cannot express that enough!!! this is Batman The Dark Detective that i always enjoy reading. the Holo-Gen scene in the Bat-cave was really cool!! i also love how Tomasi made it a point to show Batman firmly enforcing his ‘NO KILL’ rule to the Spectre. Batman would help him to find and save Jim Corrigan, but Spectre wasn’t allowed to kill while he was in Gotham. i was great how Tomasi was able to bring the story back to the criminals Batman faced in the beginning of issue #1006. reading back into 1006 i was reminded of just how together and in-control Tomasi writes Batman. this has definitely been my favorite version of Batman in many many years. this issue ended a bit abruptly, but it still was very enjoyable. i really look forward to reading this one again really soon!

this was an ok issue. i was honestly expecting more. there were some funny and amusing moments. but it was all a bit predictable, except for the resolution. that caught me off guard, and was pretty damn funny! overall a fun comic. the art was really quite beautiful. as well as his Batman, i just love how Doug Mahnke draws The Joker. i really wish the Variant cover would have featured the Joker. that is truly a missed opportunity there. having the variant be Mr. Freeze over JOKER??? what were they thinking? the nods to Brian Bolland, as well as Flex Mentallo were a little distracting, but still really cool!

this was a really solid Batman story with a nice classic feel and very extraordinary art! Bruce and Alfred's banter is as wonderful as ever. i absolutely loved Alfred's retort what Bruce jest that he was going to kill him. even Deadshot has some playful dialog in this. a lot of fun, as a comic should be. once the action hits, this comic becomes an adrenaline rush thrill ride. very cinematic and intense! it's awesome seeing Batman take charge of a hopeless situation and still able to save lives. to me this comic has a classic feel of the Batman comics of the late 70's and i just love that. it's issues like this that make me so happy that i'm reading this run.

i've really been enjoying the Bronze-age feel that Tomasi has been going for. even the nod to The Brave and the Bold, as well as the one fellow referring to Bruce Wayne as Cary Grant, who i've often felt Jim Aparo was modeling his Batman after. the issue was a bit exposition heavy. many won't care foe this. but so far i've been invested in the story and want to see where it goes. this comic has a very late 70's early 80's feel, and that's something i enjoy very much. i also liked the message about compassion that Tomasi conveyed in this issue. there were two instances that come to mind within. far too many comics. movies and video games like to promote negativity towards man and animal, but this issue showed heart. i know i'm going on a tangent here, but not too many writers are brave enough to attempt to spread this sort of message. most just like to go for cheap shock value. the slapdash thrown together Bat-suit was really cool. it showed how resourceful Batman truly is. i also loved the way the pages and panels were laid out. this comic would have been much better suited with art more akin to Jim Aparo or Neal Adams. but the art was serviceable. still, it would have been pretty amazing to see this comic drawn in an Aparo or Adams style.

Tomasi is great at storytelling. good set-up with starting this issue before where the last issue left off. it made the pay-off all the more satisfying. plus the visual storytelling was very nicely done. there's something particularly awesome about seeing Bruce getting all Primal in the jungle. the scenes of him submerging himself in the mud or appearing from the jungle thick were totally BAD-ASS!! the hand to hand fight scene was exhilarating!! very animated!! and i still really love Bruce's cobbled together Bat-suit. it really makes the action of this comic stand out. i'm still very much enamored with how Tomasi is able to successfully capture that classic Silver-Age/Bronze-Age feel! these short arcs are just a whole lot of fun! they have a nice stand-alone adventure feel to them. really looking forward to re-reading this story over in it's entirety. i very much enjoyed the Epilogue with Clarence and Hiroshi. Tomasi always does sentimental in his stories very well. it's good to read Batman stories with some heart.

a real mixed bag. on one hand we have fun and entertaining stories like Morrison's Detective 26, which was a fun dark humored parody of Batman's origin. then we have Tom King trying to pretend he's clever, while at the same time taking his usual steaming $#!% on Batman. not worth the $10 price tag. also not a worthy enough tribute to Batman. just another DC cash grab.

This was probably one of the most boring Batman comics i've read in a long time. It starts with a Mayor's speech (i'm bored already). Then the speech is broken up by an attack by Party Crashers. The the Party Crashers get taken down by Batman in the most uninteresting "Over-Before-You-Know-It" ways possible. Bruce is in a DIY cave, He hurts his back, He's living in some apartment, His neighbor Lydia flirts with him, she invites him to a party, The mayor has a meeting about the Party Crashers, Batman finds the Party Crashers and beats them up, Bruce's Neighbor Sarah gets attacked, Yadda-Yadda-Yadda.... Aside from decent art, this comic kinda stinks. As for the backup story. Damian is interacting with Talia? the same Talia who had him killed in Batman Inc? No thanks!

Dan Mora's absolutely beautiful art is wasted on this garbage story.

the art is spectacular, but the writing just does not interest me at all. no matter how i try, this story really bores the ever-loving hell out of me. i'm sure someone out there enjoys this. it's just not grabbing me. pity, because the art is really phenomenal.

While there were some things story-wise that I honestly wasn't a fan of, I must admit this really had me engaged. The mood and the pacing had me hooked. And the idea of challenging Batman's moral code is done pretty well here. I just hope the writer sticks the landing. But I really don't like when writers take an ageist approach with ongoing Batman stories. We already covered that in The Dark Knight Returns, and that was an Elseworlds tale. Hearing about Batman having had knee surgeries has no place in monthly comics. And please don't site Dark Knight Rises as a counter point. If Bruce had as many Knee problems as he did at the end of Chris Nolan's trilogy, the reality would have been him sitting out the rest of the film with his affected leg elevated while taking Vicodin. Also, I am absolutely no fan of Mikel Janin's "ART". Dude! Just draw it on your own! Stop tracing over 3D/CG character models. It just looks stiff and emotionless. Whenever Janin "draws" a character with their mouth open they just end up looking like a ventriloquist dummy. My biggest gripe was the very last panel. If this was actually a thing with Thomas Wayne, then WHY is this the first time we are ever hearing of this? I really don't like when writers play loose and fast with continuity. It really just takes one out of the story. I'll check out the next issue, but I'm not really going to go in with much expectations.

this really felt like some classic Dark Detective Batman comics of the late Silver/early Bronze age. like something Denny O'Neil might have written in his heyday. i really enjoy how Tomasi portrays Batman as the calm cool and competent Caped Crusader. it’s a pleasure to read when someone understands and respects the characters. the banter written between Batman & Gordon as well as Batman & Alfred is a pleasure to read. there is respect between characters, and an air of sentimentally and humor that is just a delight. i especially loved the nods to Grant Morrison’s Batman. callbacks to The Black Casebook, Batman RIP and even Batman Incorporated. very interesting choice to even mine Mike W. Barr’s run using The Reaper and the Caspian family. in Tomasi’s hands it was very well executed and entertaining. the art was suitable and servicable for the story. it was jarring seeing flashbacks from Batman Year Two, with Batman donning his New52 costume. but it's not the first time we've seen DC do this. as far as one-shots go i have to be honest, i enjoyed this comic so much more than any of the stories done for Detective Comics 1000.

the first story was entertaining. had decent (dynamic, action-packed) art. the second story was a bit of a slog, and Eduardo Risso's art usually looks much better than this. it's good to see DC doubling down of the crappy decision of letting a worthless hack writer kill-off Alfred. one of the best characters in the entire Batman history, next to Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. they are shooting themselves in the foot. may their drop in sale numbers serve them well.

This was in no way shape or form a good comic! the front was heavily stuffed with exposition. the idea itself never should have been brought back. it never needed to be anything other than it's original mini-series. the issue's climax was lackluster. the whole thing just feels forced and uninspired. even the art is very stiff and dull. i feel absolutely no desire to read the next issue. Reading this again, it's even worse than i had remembered. I'm lowering my score to a "1". I'd rate it a Zero of i could.

There is no reason for this comic to exist. Sorry I wasted my time.

While it's an interesting premise, this is ultimately a shameless cash-grab by DC. Hardly worth paying Five dollars for Four issues. If this is something you're interested in, probably better to just trade wait. Parts of the story did throw me through a loop and had me guessing. But again, better to just wait for the collected book.

This probably should have never happened. Sure, Robin lives, but it's just more nihilistic crap! Nothing I'd ever want to read again.

very decompressed. no actual information is given. there's no stakes to invest in. nice art though.

this is not a comic i would recommend. present and past tense jump back and forth for no reason. it tries to be noir, but ends up feeling random and jarring. the plot is contrived, the story is very decompressed. much of this should have been in the first issue. this is a lot of nothing just spread thin. not entertaining in the least. even the art seems to have taken a step down.

Definitely not what i was hoping for. Dan Mora's art deserves a much better story than this. definitely skip this.

this series has been one of DC Comics BEST offerings! this story finally ties up so many loose ends lingering since Forever Evil and Batman Incorporated. the reunion between Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne alone was well worth it!

sorry but Duke whateverhisnameis standing toe to toe with (the first Robin, former nightwing, one-time batman, agent of spiral) Dick Grayson really knocked quite a few points off this issue for me. otherwise the continuation of the Robin War was enjoyable. Damian Wayne is the best part of this series!

this has been one of the most fun issues in a while, Dick Grayson is absolutely hysterical in it!! really getting into the whole 'super-spy' thing Dick sings a mock version of 'Goldfinger' throughout the issue! ....it is TOO funny beyond words!!!! "BA BOW BOW!" ^__^

there were a few things i enjoyed about this issue (like Carmine Di Giandomenico's beautiful art style) but something felt really off about his issue! the dialog seemed to not flow very well and it was difficult to keep up with all these new characters that i had no idea who they were, or what their motivations were. had to read it a second time, and even then is still didn't quite jive. even Dick's wise cracking felt a bit forced, and not very funny. ...... oh well! they tried! .... at least .... i THINK they tried???

it's really a shame how this series s going!!! but it's still a LOT better than many of the other comics that DC is currently putting out. still, i did enjoy some of this comic even though it was far from perfect. at least this issue finally gets the whimsical humor right again, so that bumps the score up a little. ^__^ .........ok, the spy thing is getting played out! i'll be MORE than happy when Dick finally becomes Nightwing again!!

this series started so good but now it just kinda sucks! . . . it just goes to show what you get for being a loyal fan of any DC series. . . . they make promises of giving you quality stories, and then they kick you right in the ass!!! . . . this isn't a bad issue, but it's far from great. . . . . . another reason i am greatly disappointed is the pointless 'ROBIN WAR'!!! it served NO purpose but to sell more issues! ... at the very end of Robin War it specifically said "continued in the pages of 'Grayson'. . . . . WHERE??? there's been NO mention of the Robin War OR the court of owls! not that i really mind as Robin War was garbage and the court of owls is overrated. (see how the Owls are treated in Batman #51 or Endgame) . . . but why waste everyone's time with the cross-over? . . . . . . thus adding yet another strike against DC! . . . . and seeing Dick ride up to an isolated fortress in the middle of the arctic snow just brought back horrific memories to the finale of that miserable Batman & Robin Eternal! >.<

finally getting to see all the various incarnations of Dick Grayson (Flying Grayson, Robin, Nightwing, Batman, Talon) vs. Dr Daedalus was definitely the high point of the issue. . . . . . . it was a satisfying end, and made the whole journey feel worthwhile. . . . . . . much of the comic felt rushed, predictable and resolved all to easily. . . . . . but at least this series finally set right what was bungled up by DC Editorial back in 'Forever Evil'. . . . . . . and while i can say that without a doubt that i absolutely LOVE the character of Dick Grayson, i just can't waste anymore time and money on DC's sub-par product. . . . . . . . if anything i'll just continue to get the re-releases of Classic Nightwing collected editions so long as DC continues to publish them. . . . . . . can't say i'm excited in the least for DC Rebirth.

Grant Morrison comics always read better upon re-reads, you’ll definitely get your money’s worth! if you’re a fan of his writing you are in for a real treat. if you’re not a fan, best stay away. there’s a lot to keep up with. and you’d better read it slow and carefully. Grant’s stories always hit the ground running. any info you need to know, you find out along the way. one of the things i love about Grant’s writing is there is SO much going on in just one issue. he really knows how to tell as vast story and move a plot. NO DECOMPRESSION HERE! so creative and imaginative! this comic is just bursting with concepts and ideas. plenty of action as well! ((((spoilers ahead)))) we’re introduced to some Green Lanterns trying to take down some Space Pirates. they are up against some pretty formidable odds, but end up victorious. …or so it would seem. enter Hal Jordon. he seems to be down on his luck. lost his job on Earth. fired from the Green Lanterns. well, not all of Hal’s luck is bad. He spends his evening with the company of a beautiful Lady. the next morning as he goes about his way he is confronted by a derelict. the derelict is talking non-comprehensible. Hal immediately concludes the man is actually a space alien. a Colony Creature. being good at what he does, Hal defeats the alien. shortly after Hal finds one the Lanterns, Chriselon that was trying to bring in the space pirates. he is hurt really bad. Hal wants to help, but explains that while he still has his Green Lantern ring the Guardians took away his power battery. Chriselon gives Hal his power battery. Hal powers up and goes after the escaped Space fugitives. so much more happens, but i don’t want to spoil anymore than i already have. ((((end spoilers)))) if you are a fan of Grant Morrison, you will definitely want to check this out. even if you are not a Morrison fan, but are a fan of Green Lantern this may still be worth your time. just read carefully, and pay attention to the many details and ideas presented. once again…. Grant Morrison comics always read better upon re-reads, so try to keep that in mind, and you will definitely get your money’s worth! my only wish is that someone like Frank Quitely would have drawn this first issue and opening arc. Liam Sharp's are is really good, but it just doesn't get the feel of depth or perspective that an artist like Quitely does. that being said, Liam Sharp's faces he draws are quite excellent. his Hal Jordan really has that classic Bronze age look that i really enjoy.

i think i'm going to have to re-read this one again. i'm not 100% familiar with Green Lantern lore, and all the obscure corners of the DCU. while reading this comic i was too busy trying to gather who everyone was, that i missed out on a lot of the story. now, i love Grant Morrison. he's one of my favorite comic writers. but i can't just blindly heap praise on every single thing he does. some of his stories i absolutely LOVE, others i like a lot, others that are just ok, others are kind of 'Eh', and then there are stories that are . . .well . . see my 'Wonder Woman Earth One' review. like i said, there are some things i just can't heap praise upon, just because my favorite writer wrote it. but one of the reasons why i love Grant Morrison's writing so much is, it usually has many layers. i'll find things within it upon re-reads. i wasn't 100% thrilled with his some parts of his JLA run the first time i'd read it. but after some re-reads, i'd found things i hadn't noticed before. understood the story much better. now it's among some of my all-time favorite comic runs. so that being said i DEFINITELY am going to have to read this one again! perhaps, maybe a few more times. but even though i was confused on a lot of what was going on, i did see some cool scenarios and characters that piqued my interest, to make me want to delve into this comic again. i may change my score after i've given this issue another go. but NOT right now! i've got too much of a headache. 😛

this is definitely a comic (and series) that HAS to be read at least twice the get the big overall picture of what Grant is building towards. Seeing the scope of what Grant is doing... this is one AMAZING comic! Love Grant's commentaries within this issue!! FUCKING BRILLIANT!! also the very last page was PERFECT!

this is a great story to check out if you have not read it yet.
very grim. even though it's full of sex, violence, and depravity, there is a heart to this story.
that heart comes from Happy, the imaginary friend of a little girl named Hailey who has been kidnapped.
from reading the story you can tell Happy really loves his friend Hailey and will do anything he has to to save her. even if it means he'll have to seek the help of fallen ex-cop Nix Sax, who really could be bothered.

Happy tries to convince Nick to help, but Nick is more concerned with his own selfish needs.
will Happy be able to get Nick to save Hailey before it's too late?

i have to say, i really love this story!
Happy is too adorable, and lovable. seeing him try to win over Nick felt very real, and i was completely sold on his concern for the well being for his best friend.
it's also worth noting that this isn't the typical cryptic writing of Grant Morrison's.
it's more straight forward, like his writing for stories like 'WE3'. (another great story if you've not read it.
i almost wasn't going to buy this re-release, since i already own the single issues, and the hardcover. but it's a Grant Morrison story i really love, so i don't mind the extra dip.

this was an absolutely empty nothing of a story spread across an entire issue. characters killed for no good reason other than cheap shock value.

it seems Harley Quinn is now the most powerful character in the entire DCU. this time she completely outfoxes the entire DC trinity. characters act like complete idiots. dull robotic dialog. poor attempts at humor. (why is everyone including Batman all of the sudden calling Batman’s utility belt his “Bat-Belt”?) Batman carries Kryptonite in his *UTILITY BELT* he always has. everyone knows this. so why does everyone act shocked at this reveal? Tom King loves showing characters having emotional breakdowns. another beloved character added to the list of the dead just for the sake of it. trashy hack writing. added points only for the art.

((((((spoilers)))))) ((((((spoilers)))))) ((((((spoilers)))))) ((((((spoilers)))))) ((((((spoilers)))))) ((((((spoilers)))))) ((((((spoilers)))))) Harley Quinn snuck up behind Wally West and killed him with her little mallet? now i KNOW y'all are trippin!

there's nothing i can say that other reviewers have already said more eloquently than i ever could. this event is pure garbage. absolute total garbage.

the biggest shame of this comic.... is that such beautiful art is wasted on the garbage writing, as Tom King mocks the mentally ill.

the only plus i can see is that this garbage event is almost over. Eisner awards must be pretty worthless if they just hand them to any clown.

(((((((SPOILER ALERT))))))) (((((((SPOILER ALERT))))))) (((((((SPOILER ALERT))))))) (((((((SPOILER ALERT))))))) i know who the killer is!! it's Tom King. he's killed this series, and he wants to kill the DCU. the art was really nice, but what's the point if it's for trash writing?

Tom King doesn't know how to create. he has no idea how to inspire. all he knows how to do is to destroy.

in the words of Jim Corrigan, The Spectre. according to Tom King . . . “i asked the lord our god why we suffer. he didn’t answer. he couldn’t speak through the tears.” 😆😆😆BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! 😆😆😆😆 is he joking with this crap????! 😆 anyway.... i just hope this garbage gets swept under the rug. especially all the crap they did to Wally. an utter disgrace of a comic.

oh my god, was this ever BAD!!!!! this is not anything even close to a good representation of Batman. i don't know what this is supposed to be? but it's not Batman. more like a really bad Iron-man knock off. and the character Tim is just not interesting at all, nor are any of the supporting characters. as for the art, YIKES!!! this just doe not look good at all. very amateurish looking, and YUCK!! DC has a LOT of nerve selling this for five bucks, those bunch of &%$#ng a-holes!!!!! a score of "1" is TOO HIGH!!! there should be a zero score for crap like this. i should have just went with my gut instinct and read Batman '89 first. gonna wait till the headache i got from reading this poor excuse for a batman comic subsides.

i enjoyed the art but the story really didn’t grab me. not sure IF and when i’ll ever feel like reading this one again.

What should have been a fun idea, just wasn't. An idea so ridiculous SHOULD have had some parody or humor in it. The Art was really nice, but the story is just WAY too contrived. Especially when we see the Jurassic version of Aquaman controlling sea-creatures that do not look prehistoric. The whole thing is just contrived and really falls flat on it's face. Again, the art is really nice. But this story just is not worth reading.

the character's are well written, the story really drew me in. that art is absolutely gorgeous! i just LOVE the enchanting fantastic world that Grant has created here, it's a true work of wonder. anyway! i'm really happy i took a chance on this series.

i nice action packed issue. . . . . . some of the dialog in parts didn't seem to jive though. . . . . . beautiful art! really gorgeous and dynamic!! . . . . . will have to re-read this one again to see if there's anything i missed in my first reading. . . . . . really looking forward to the next issue!

things really ramp up and we get to see what Horror's have been waiting for the townsfolk of Grimsvig. . . . . . . really wish we could have seen some of this evil demonic stuff a lot sooner!

i REALLY hope to see Grant Morrison and Dan Mora team-up again in the future!!! . . . . . the two together is truly magical! . . . . . . . . . . this is one of my favorite comics Grant Morrison has put out in a long while! . . . . . . . and this issue had almost slipped by me, but thankfully i caught on just in time to ride out this adventure from the very beginning. . . . . the series started out really strong and thankfully ended strong. . . . . . . the story was a lot of fun, and the art was wicked cool!!! . . . . . . . i can really see thing being made into one HELL of an awesome animated movie!!!! . . . . . it'd also make for a cool live action flick, but the art stylings of Dan Mora already look very animated. . . . . . . . even though i already bought this series in single issues, i'll definitely made the upgrade to getting the collected Hardcover when that comes out!! i'll absolutely want to see the concept art and notes behind this one! . . . . . . . . . i really recommend checking out this series!!!

i really hope Grant Morrison keeps doing more of these ‘Klaus’ stories!
from the great set-up of the initial minis-series, now we can have exploring new adventures with the character.
the world Grant has created is very imaginative with magnificent creatures, Dan Mora’s art brings it to life beautifully.
if you enjoyed the Klaus mini-series this is definitely worth checking out!

Grant's spin on Geppetto was absolutely insane!!!! but in a good way!

this story was really a nice surprise!
i'm really happy we keep getting more of Grant Morrison & Dan Mora's Klaus.

i love how Grant balances ta fine line between showing a world of cynicism and still manages to inject a warm feeling of heart and hope in to this world.
i must admit there were definitely a moments that made me more than a little misty-eyed.

for the uninitiated, what Grant has done is taken the folklore and legends that have become what most people know of Santa Clause and formed his own Bad-ass warrior of a character out of him.
he even rides a sleigh pulled my magical white wolves.

now THIS is the Grant Morrison that i know and love! -great one-shot spinning off from Morrison's Klaus series. -excellent action -lore/occult references and use of mysticism. -fantastic mythological characters, creatures and world -i absolutely LOVE Lilli -this comic is TONS of FUN!!!

it's absolutely amazing the level of emotion that Grant Morrison is able to achieve with a series of splash pages, chronicling in reverse, the life of one of Klaus' mortal allies, with absolutely no dialogue. you get a real feeling of the good times as well as the sorrow and the loss of this Joe Christmas, there were a few times when i felt myself getting emotional seeing some of the loss this Joe Christmas has gone through. a charming yet powerful read. Dan Mora's art really soars in this. very beautiful.

this series used to be in my pull-list once upon a time when i was subscribed to everything and anything 'Batman'.
this redux of 'Legends of the Dark Knight' might not be as epic in scale as the original titled series that started in 1989, but this one does have some very cool stories throughout mixed in with some of not-so-good stories.

the first story in this issue 'Carved' is one of the not-so-good stories. it's far fetched, and just plain silly.
many of the happenings in the story defy logic or any sort of reality that they could actually happen.
suspension of disbelief only goes but so far.
and the art (while interesting) doesn't suite Batman and his world very well.

the second story 'Unnatural Selection' on the other hand is pretty dang awesome!!!
it features very cool art with a realistic and dark tone, that is not only very cinematic but also is a perfect fit for Batman as well as a gritty detective story.
without giving too much away, Batman is investigating a string of murders in Gotham by an unknown animal.
my first thought was "it's gotta be Killer Croc", but thankfully that gets ruled out right away.

the second story in this issue is definitely worth checking out.
the first one might be better to just ignore.

an interesting introduction to the series, even if it is WAY too abstract to tell what in the hell is exactly going on??? ....... i get that Grant is trying to introduce an unsettling dream-like quality, but you have to give the reader more to sink their teeth into to want to come back for more. .... the art is beautiful! .... there are some wonderfully haunting moments, as well as some absolutely gorgeous panels illustrated by Chris Burnham. ........ one thing i must say is this issue really is a testament to just how much Chris Burnham has progressed as an artist!!! ..... some of the panels within are absolutely gorgeous!!!!

so far none of the characters make me want to care about them. there is far too much obscure terms and references being thrown around that it really distracts from getting into the story. and when you have an issue that is 90% exposition (set-up) that is NOT a good thing!!!! .... we get a bit more gore, and a shocking twist at the end. but still, it's hard to care about the characters, or what happens to them.

it just seems like Grant is having too much fun amusing himself by writing over everyone's heads? obscure references galore! ... it's not exactly clear who is who in the story. ...... many of the characters look similar and weren't given a proper introduction in the first place. .... there's some nice gore, but without any personal investment to the characters it comes off as shallow.

more of the same incoherent writing with some playful dark humor thrown in. ... i did enjoy Grant's underlying message about how screwed up humanity is, calling it a "murderous %&$#@ cannibal virus. nameless seems to be a commentary on our over-populated self destructive existence on the planet (which is cool) but it's execution is a bit wanting? ....i enjoyed some of the themes, the art was nice to look at with some haunting and unsettling images.

we are given more of the "humanity is a blight on the planet" message. .....yeah, i'll give you that! people SUCK!!!! ....extremely abstract storytelling that is difficult to digest and not very enjoyable when you're just NOT in the mood to interrupt your reading of the comic, to look up one obscure reference after another!!! .....more nicely illustrated gore, some cool concepts are presented, but the over abundance of esoteric terms thrown around make it too difficult to fully enjoy. for those unfamiliar with the meaning of "esoteric" ........ es·o·ter·ic ˌesəˈterik/ ........ ........adjective: esoteric ........ intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest. ........ "esoteric philosophical debates" ........ synonyms: abstruse, obscure, arcane, recherché, rarefied, recondite, abstract

sorry Grant! i usually LOVE your writing, but this one just didn't grab me like i'd hoped it would. ........still, it had some absolutely beautiful art, and fantastic scenes. ... but that's just not enough. .............. since there were months at a time in between issues, i'll have to give this series another solid read-through again from the beginning! .... hopefully i just missed some important detail that will better explain just what in the hell you were trying to get at??? because at the end of the series i was absolutely clueless as to what was going on!!! ....... sometimes a comic that makes you have to think is nice, but not every single story needs to be some sort of multi-layered, overly-abstract, obscure-referenced conundrum! ....it really felt like you were going out of your way to write over people's heads? ......... ...... .... ..... ..... ....BUT ...... it's Grant's defense .... i will re-read this a few more times, because i really want to find out what the heck is going on??? ... thankfully there were enough beautiful Art by Chris Burnham to hold my interest.

the Nightwing Rebirth (one-shot) was done really well, but the actual series issue #1 was a bit lukewarm for me. . . . . . . . . hopefully this picks up? . . . . . Dick Grayson is an awesome character, and deserves a solid series.

definitely an improvement from last issue. . . . . . . but it felt like it was over before it even began. . . . . . . . i'm not 100% sure? but i MAY have actually enjoyed Kyle Higgins New 52 Nightwing series just a bit more? . . . . . this series does show promise. so there's hope yet!

i DO love me a Dick Grayson / Barbara Gordon team-up!!! . . . . . . . . especially when it's done right! . . . . . . . . i really enjoyed Barbara's reaction to Dick for standing her up in the previous issue! . . . . . . . . the characterizations were written very well, and had very natural flowing dialog. . . . . . . . . the adventure in a maze house full of labyrinth walls and death traps was very fun and enjoyable! though i do feel Barbara over-reacted a bit much at the end. . . . . . . . . some of the structuring in the faces was off, which was a little distracting at times. . . . . . . . . but nothing too unforgiving. . . . . . . . . the art still had a nice look to it over-all. and the color was just beautiful!

the first few pages had me almost bored to tears!!! . . . . . . . but it eventually picked up. . . . . . . . i did enjoy the parts with Dick and Damian. . . . . . wish Nightwing would just have a team-up with Robin already!

the 'monster men' mess continues into nightwing . . . . . . seriously this was SOOOO bad!!! . . . i had to FORCE myself to finish reading it!!! . . . . SO FRIGGING AWFUL!!!! . . . . . . . . can't recommend this to anyone!!!

this series so far has only just been ok at best. . . . . . . putting it mixed with this cross-over has done noting but hurt it as a whole.

Raptor is an excellent foil for Nightwing! . . . . . . . . . Tim Seeley has an excellent voice for the characters. . . . . . . . . . i'm happy this series is back on track after that Cross-Over fiasco.

while it's interesting that they are giving more history of Dick Grayson's backstory with the circus . . . . i really feel this book would greatly benefit from being released monthly rather than bi-monthly. . . . . . . it just feels like there are kinks and wrinkles in the story that need to be smoothed out. and under the rushed release schedule it just doesn't have the quality control it needs! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this being said i really loved the set-up in last issue of Raptor capturing Batman publicly while he was in his secret identity of Bruce Wayne. . . . . the dialog between Bruce and Raptor was really well done. and Raptor's death-trap for Bruce was not only ironic, but it was PURE CRAZY ! ! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . Tim Seely's handling of dialog taken from 'Batman Year-One' and flipping it was PERFECT!!!! . . . . . there was also a LOT of great action in Nightwing's rescue of Bruce. . . . . . Bruce gets an awesome 'James Bond' moment, proving that he is a true escape artist. . . . . . . and the issue ends on a very satisfying moment between Bruce and Nightwing. . . . . . . . . i want to rate the issue even higher, but there were a few momenst in the action that were a bit difficult to fully tell what was going on. . . . . but still a GREAT issue!

i really don't know anything about the character Dr. Destiny, so much of this story i felt lost on. . . . . . i always enjoy seeing a Superman / Dick Grayson team-up. . . . . though the whole pre-flashpoint Superman meeting New52 Nightwing felt a little odd. . . . it didn't make a whole lot of sense taking Nightwing to Bludhaven, since New52 Nightwing never went there before. . . . . that felt more like it was done for the audience than anything. . . . . . still a fun issue overall and i really liked the new direction of art. . . . . hopefully Marcio Takara will get to draw more issues of this in the future?

ok enough issue. it didn't really blow me away.

...it did however remind me of just how pointless and lackluster it was to send Nightwing to Chicago for the NEW 52.
so now we have this move to bludhaven and it just feels very pedestrian.

Damian's brief cameo felt a bit off of his usual characterization.
having Damian practicing his Teen Titans rally just felt forced in and out of place.

the impact of the cliffhanger ending is lost, as i have NO idea who this Defacer person is
. . . nor do i really care.

this doesn't feel like the same Bludhaven that Chuck Dixon wrote about.
this just feels like Nightwing in Chicago all over again, but with less flashy art.

this is honestly one of the best new Batman comics i've read in a very long time. engaging story, great art. not sure i'm 100% thrilled with this take on Dick Grayson, but it's still a very entertaining story. really glad i added this to my pull-list.

one of the best new Batman comics i've read in a long time. this is finally starting to actually feel like Dick Grayson, and not just Jason Todd labeled as "Grayson". the plot with the JLA watchtower and the teen titans was a lot of fun.

overall i'm glad for this story coming out. not sure if i'll actually double dip and buy the collected edition once it comes out or not? i more than likely will out of pure boredom with the piss-poor state of current comics. while this story was definitely entertaining, there were quite a number of things that i wish could have been done better. as decent as this story was, ROBIN: YEAR ONE did it a LOT better!! and many years earlier.

there were some "ok" moments in this. Damian talking to an imaginary Alfred ghost was cool, but so much of this just felt off. Damian telling everyone that he was Batman's son, and Ra's Al Ghul's grandson was so unnatural. it sounded like dialogue written into a fictional character's mouth. just a very cartoony book. by the time i'd reached the cliffhanger ending, i just wasn't believing any of it.

Joshua Williamson ranges from "mediocre" to "hack". nothing he writes has similar characterizations to what had come before. he takes characters and just does whatever. he doesn't care, so why should i?

had some decent moments, but overall was pointless and necessary! i hate cross over events that lead up to nothing! "Continued in the pages of Grayson" ... NO it wasn't!!!! and even still, what a middle finger at the loyal fans who invested in this crap! "Continued in the pages of.." GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!

it's always great to see Damian interacting with Alfred Pennyworth! i really liked the overall premise of this issue, but it felt very rough and didn't read very smoothly. but as much as i enjoy the characters it was worth it for me to read through it a second time to be able to better make out all the elements trying to flesh themselves out. i just hope Pat Gleason is able to return strong when he returns to the book.

it’s great to see Patrick Gleason back in his groove after having his run been interrupted by a crossover. now the book is back on track and we see Damian back in Gotham and checking up on his father (Bruce Wayne). it was welcome seeing Gleason’s handling of the emotional moment of Damian what’s become of his father, as well as several other moments later on when you truly feel Damian’s isolation and abandonment. Pat Gleason has a witty sense of humor that shows though, and there a wonderful pivotal moment when Damian get a visit from and old friend. the splash page at the very end left me absolutely excited for the next issue! the last page gave a good chuckle when seeing what Damian’s pet cat was doing! xD

not the smooth read i have come to expect when Pat Gleason is writing, but the story still translates well, and the characters shine through. some of the dialog feels a little stiff, and the art was decent but not as dynamic when Gleason is doing the pencils. the book ended with me really looking forward to what’s coming up next. and i’m sure going to miss this title once ‘DC: Rebirth’ launches. no Robin solo book? or even a new Batman & Robin title??? finally a decent title i can get behind, and they kill it off!!! ... that really sucks DC!!!

while the dialog at the beginning of the issue felt a bit forced and stiff, it thankfully picked up as the issue went along. i’m glad this book FINALLY has reunited Batman and Robin after the whole entire ‘Endgame’ fiasco. but we’ve only got just one issue left of this title before it gets cancelled. this comic was satisfying enough to have me excited for the next and final issue. but with the coming solicits of DC Rebirth i can’t say i’m overly excited by what i’m seeing. i’ll finish this series and the last few other titles i’m reading before they get canceled. i just can’t guarantee i’ll be sticking with DC after ‘Rebirth’.

i feel very conflicted with this issue! . . . . . . . . . . . . on one hand i really enjoyed the story elements, all the pieces were there for a pretty exciting conclusion to a ride i've been having an absolute BLAST with. . . . . . . . . . . . . but i honestly feel it could have been handled a LOT better! . . . . . . first off - (and most importantly) - the handling of Batman!!!! - Batman as a character commands a certain INTENSITY, a feeling of gravitas, Batman is LEGENDARY. . . . . . . but in this issue he just felt like a 2 dimensional character that didn't really even express any sort of emotion towards his own son. VERY disappointing. . . . . . . . . . . . . as for the dialog as a whole, it just felt like characters were all just reading a script. none of the words the characters said flowed very naturally. . . . . . . the plot seems to have become very convoluted over time. i think one of the biggest problems this series had was it's interruption by the (completely pointless) 'ROBIN WAR'! after that the series never felt like it regained it's once great emotional depth and fast paced story-telling. . . . . . . still, aside from the lack of any real feeling of captivation from the characters, i still want to see where the story goes? . . . . . . thankfully, there is one more issue coming up to see if this series actually gets wrapped up with a proper conclusion. . . . . . . DC killing this series off after ending 'Batman & Robin' is a tremendous disappointment! let's just hope 'Super Sons' can fill the void?

WOW!!!! . . . . . . . . this issue was SERIOUSLY AWESOME!!! . . . . right from the intro and on! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it just makes me sad knowing that this is the very last issue! . . . . . . . . . . . . . hopefully Super Sons will be able to continue the same energy as we've had here when this Robin series was in it's stride?

this was an excellent start to the next installment of the Samurai saga. . . . . if you at all enjoy a good tale of a wandering swordsman, definitely give it a try! . . . . you won't be disappointed. . . . . . the art feels like it's making nice progress since the very start of the series. . . . . . and it was very beautiful to begin with!!! . . . . . the next issue can't come soon enough!!! . . . . . it makes me want to go back and re-read the earlier installments of the saga just to hold me over.

this series is truly brilliant!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it's everything a comic SHOULD be!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . it has well developed characters, intense action and drama, and very very VERY beautiful art!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i'm very tempted to give this issue a 10 ! ! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but i'll reserve that for after i find out where the story is headed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . there were some very emotional scenes that were almost too difficult to read! . . . . . i'm highly anticipating to see where that particular development goes!!!

i can honestly say this is one of my favorite comics series that i've EVER read ! ! ! . . . . . . everything about it is good. the art, the characters, the action, and the feeling of being immersed in this world. . . . . . . . some of the perils that were let off from the last issue are now being dealt with while new ones arise. . . . . . . . this issue is definitely not a jumping on point, so anyone tuning in right now will be rather baffled as to what's going on. . . . . . but anyone who has been reading, the main character Takeo has really been dragged into a mess by his Brother. and now he has to face a pursuing army with orders to bring him in dead or alive. . . . . . . there were a few mysteries introduced, that i'm sure will be addressed in future issues. . . . . . the issue ends abruptly with a criffhanger. which will probably read much better as a trade? but right now i'm biting my nails with anticipation as to what will come next.

the lead character Takeo is such a bad-ass swordsman! every time he goes into battle is a treat!
so many developments are finally unfolding, and questions that have been brought up since the very first volumes are getting answered.
i'm very much looking forward to going back and re-reading this series from the 'Heart of the Prophet' story arc.

aside from the excellent action and beautiful art, i really enjoy the portrayal of the characters.
some of the character's motives at first glance seem villainous, though due to circumstances have not too many other choices. seeing how they handle these decisions is what makes the story so compelling.
and then there are the characters that are just rotten to the core, that you are happy to see them get a samurai sword shoved up their ass sideways!!!

there is one character that has been in peril for several issues now, that we are left with another cliff hanger as to her fate.
there have been a few glimmers of hope that she'll be alright, but as of right now things aren't looking too good.
it's a shame because too! because i felt she had some real potential for development, and it feels like she's been reduced to a mere damsel in distress.
sure it adds tension and suspense to the story, but i had much higher hopes for her.

this issue was very exposition heavy, but a necessary one.
we finally finally get a BIG reveal as to why Takeo and his brother Akio have been marked for death since childhood.
we are also filled in on the history of their parents.
there's one particular flashback scene that takes place long before the events of this series start. it introduces up to Takeo’s father and it is truly an amazing scene.
i'll never look as Sushi the same ever again!!

there were also nice character moments in this issue. a scene with Takeo's Monk friend, i busted out laughing while reading it.

someone coming into this series at this point would more than likely be lost. but for readers who has been along for this journey since the very beginning, this issue was terrific!! it’s answered so many of the questions i’ve had for a while now.
it will really make you want to go back and explore the story from the very start.
i know this issue definitely has done that for me.

after i’ve re-read this issue i’m definitely going back to the collected edition of volumes 1 through 4.

Samurai volumes 1-4 are collected in a single Hardcover.
volume 5 (the Isle with No Name) is now available in trade paperback.
this is a comic series i highly recommend to anyone who enjoys action and adventure.

Ogomo having captured Takeo and Akio’s is planning to hand them over to the Shogun. in doing so they would be executed under false pretenses. Takeo and Akio’s friend The Monk has turned to their former caretaker Master Kaze for help.
Master Kaze is leading a band of Warrior Monks to go and rescue them.

with today’s release of Samurai i am both happy and saddened at the same time.

on the one hand i am thrilled to read all plot threads since the beginning with volume 1 ‘Heart of the Prophet’ as well as ‘Island with no Name’ and ‘Brothers in Arms’ have been nicely wrapped up.

on the other hand i am greatly saddened that there hasn’t been any announcement from Titan Comics as to if any other volumes of Samurai will be imported from France.
i know there have been other stories that have been completed from the original French release.
but only time will tell if and when they’ll come state-side?

in the mean time i absolutely LOVE this comic series, and am so grateful to have discovered it. i can read it over again and again.
every time i go back through it i discover details that i hadn't noticed before that enrich the story. so many things that were left a mystery finally make sense to me. it really was an exciting journey with gorgeous visuals and fantastic action.

thank you Jean-Francois Di Giorgio and Frédéric Genêt for introducing me to this incredible world!

i didn't know anything about this comic series going in. ... absolutely loving a good Samurai tale i took a chance and bought this comic. ... i am very VERY happy that i did!!!! ... ... the feel of the comic art style has a beautiful charm of Ancient Japan. the story is very reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's Samurai films staring Toshiro Mifune, and even a bit of the Anime 'Ninja Scroll'. ................ the only real problem i have with this #1 is it isn't really a TRUE jumping on point! ...... i felt very clueless as to who any of the characters were or what was going on? .... still though the beautiful art style and excellent sword action was captivating enough for me to keep me entertained!! ... i added this series to my pull list, as i want to find out more of who these characters are and what will come in the future?

((UPDATE)) .... having discovered the true beginning of this series of Vol 1-4 is reprinted in a collected edition ->

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1782763376/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=

....i decided to purchase and read Vol. 1-4 so that i can appreciate the series from the start. ... i am very VERY glad that i did!! ... once i started i just couldn't put it down!!! we find out about our main character Takeo, and the history with his search for his older Brother. .... he is a well trained swordsman with a tragic past, but also a man honor and virtue. .... having now fully read vol. 1-4 and re-read this issue here i have a MUCH better understanding of what's at stake for Takeo, and am very much looking forward to seeing where his further adventures take him.

so episodic! so brilliant! it really feels like you are watching a cinematic samurai adventure. it really is one on the nicest surprises i’ve come to enjoy in a LONG time!!! i love stories of swordplay and ancient japan, and these series really pleases in all the best ways possible! . . . . the characters are very believable, and the scenes that deliver action are really satisfying. . . . . . the story also delivers the right amount of humanity as well as humor. . . . . . the build up and suspense leading up to the next issue was incredible! . . . really looking forward to the continuing of this saga!

i love the opening overhead view of the tournament! if this series is anything it’s cinematic!! the moments leading up to the duel were intense! once the action began i absolutely loved the dramatic camera angles and use of forced perspective. afterwards you truly felt a sense of honor and respect between the warriors. the main character Takeo is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in any mini-series i've read in comics! the art is a joy to look at! the character expressions really convey the emotion in the way they're drawn and the dialog that's written for them. and the action is top notch as well! i really hope that once this mini-series is done that somehow the creators will come back together and make more!

one of the most beautiful comic series i've ever had the pleasure of reading! . . . . . emotionally powerful and resonating story! . . . . . very much looking forward to the next arc in the series.

Peter Tomasi doesn't disappoint at all with this series!!!!!

it has just as much heart, humor and fun as any of the stories i've read from his Run on New52 Batman&Robin or Rebirth Superman.
Tomasi also isn't afraid to show the ugly side of humanity.
he can create characters and scenarios so emotionally powerful, that you just want to reach right inside the comic and punch an abusive bully's face right in!
there's a particular scene of young Johnathan Kent trying to stop some children from picking on a classmate. the first episode is resolved rather cute and humorously, but later on things become extremely violent.
it is in this moment we see Johnathan's rage to strike out of vengeance, but he instead show's restraint.
in this moment Jonathan feels just as an beloved character as Superman himself!
and what we see of Damian Wayne, he shows that he is just as capable and resourceful as his father.
if you planning to read this series and have never read Peter Tomasi's (2011)Batman&Robin, then i HIGHLY recommend it, as well as Tomasi's writing on (2016)Superman.

i've been waiting a very long time for this series.
and i'm happy to see there has been plenty of attention and quality put into the writing as well as the art.

speaking of art, Jorge Jimenez's pencil's are absolutely beautiful!!!

this series has been enjoyable, though not too memorable.
still is pretty fun.

coming into this comic i feel as though i missed something vital to the story as it focuses on the teen titans (which i am currently not reading) and an alternate version of a well known DC character that i’d not seen this version of before).
my fear from the beginning of this series was that it was eventually going to fall into the pit trap of all popular mainstream comics . . . . . . the dreaded CROSSOVER!!!

well it’s finally happened. and i can’t say that i’ve been enjoying this series enough to not consider dropping it from my pull-list completely.

it’s really a shame because while the series had started out really good, it has dropped in quality both in the art as well as keeping me entertained.

i may actually fall for the bait and begrudgingly buy Teen Titans #15 so i can continue reading this so-so story.
or i might just drop the series altogether and possible wait for the trade? …maybe?

i’ll have to try re-reading some of the past issues to see if i’m actually enjoying this series as much as i think i am? or if i’m simply just reminiscing at how much i loved issue #1?

[EDIT] now i find out this cross-over ties into another series i don't buy in single issues anymore.

dropped from pull-list.

a cute and silly story that you can tell Peter Tomasi was really having fun with.
and adventure that mostly follows Damian's pet dog Titus and Krypto the Superdog.
there's even some Batcow thrown in for good measure.

the issue starts with Damian and Jonathan on a mission, and from there after the comic goes to the dogs.
Krypto and Titus must get to the bottom of a mysterious disappearing of pets all throughout Gotham.
the story does start to drag a bit as Krypto and Titus try to get a group of Superpets together. and some of the scenes it's not easy to tell what exactly is happening since the animals can only use body language and animal noises to tell the story.

one thing i really like about Peter Tomasi's writing is how he acknowledges what has come before and after him.
some writers like to create a world in their own little box without any regard to continuity. (Looking at you Tom King)
Peter Tomasi as far as i can tell has always tried to incorporate elements from other writers into his own run.
while he was writing Batman&Robin(2011) he also was mindful to adopt certain things from Grant Morrison's BatmanInc. (such as Batcow or Alfred the cat)
even though this story only focuses on the Wayne Family pet dog Titus, they still show Ace from the Tom King Batman run.
not that major of a thing, but to me it just shows that Tomasi really cares about the characters and the world they live in.

some nice moments in this, but ultimately pointless. i feel really bad for Peter Tomasi being done so dirty, time and time again. why he puts up with DC's BS is beyond me.

yet ANOTHER lack-luster Superman cross-over event!!! and i'm really getting SICK of it!!! they just finished one cross-over, have started this one, and i hear they are planning yet another one right after this? enough is ENOUGH!!!! Superman, Action Comics, Batman/Superman, Superman/Wonder Woman ... dropping ALL of these awful comics! ... I'M DONE!!!

even though i have had it with New 52 Superman and it's relentless cross-overs and decided to finally drop this title, i had to see how this Kryptonite chemotherapy turned out??? and i have to admit this was a fun issue!!! while it was far from perfect there were still things about it i did enjoy. a few predictable cliches aside, i'm glad i read it!

i don't know what happened? the beginning of the comic really seemed like it was going somewhere! but this certainly is pretty lackluster for such the milestone issue that we've all been waiting for!!!! feels like DC has just given up on trying to tell really good stories? and for $4.99 this is just pathetic! some of the art is ok to decent, but far from anything amazing. can't say i'm surprised. .... oh well! i wanted to see how all this mumbo jumbo finally wrapped up! and it ended on a whimper! .... ... if you want to read a good superman story read 'All-Star Superman'instead! this was disappointing in many ways! ... ... at least it had an almost semi-satisfying ending. ...almost?

WOW!!!!! . . . . . now THIS was some seriously GOOD storytelling!! . . . . . compelling, emotional, POWERFUL!!! . . . . . . Tomasi is definitely one of the modern greats!!! . . . . the biggest issue i'm having with these Rebirth comics is it really feels like you are only getting half of one comic's worth of story per comic. . . . . i don't know? . . . . . maybe it's just me?

some of the BEST Superman writing we've had in YEARS!!!!

this issue felt a bit short. . . . . . but is was still very good. . . . . . . the Eradicator's origin did bore me a bit into a coma. . . . . . but once that was done it was right back on track. Peter Tomasi is a master at pulling the heart-strings!!! . . . . . he is easily becoming one of my favorite writers at DC. . . . . . his Batman and Robin series was top notch. . . . . . and his Superman so far is showing a lot of the same promise!

this is without a doubt my FAVORITE of all the DC Rebirth titles!!! . . . . . . when Peter Tomasi is on, he is really ON!!!! . . . . . he characters are very believable and have LOTS of heart! . . . . . and Patrick Gleason really delivers the goods as far as action goes!! . . . . . last issue was a real heart-wrencher when we saw the Eradicator devour poor Krypto, as the faithful dog tried to protect Jonathan. . . . . . i was very relieved that Tomasi has planted the seed of hope that Krypto might just be able to fight his way out of the Eradicator? . . . . . . . this was a bit of an in-between story, just bridging the gap in-between issues. . . . . . but next issue promises to be a BIG Showdown!!!! . . . . . . i HIGHLY recommend this series!!!

for me personally i've always been more of a Batman fan. but so far with the DC Rebirth Superman has been really the series i've enjoyed the MOST!!!! . . . . . . Tomasi is just a great writer!! his stories have fun dialog and a LOT of heart! mix that with Great action and i can honestly say this is my MOST favorite of all the Rebirth series!!! . . . . . . . seeing Jonathan in action here is getting me really psyched for when he eventually teams up with Damian Wayne in Super Sons!!! . . . . . and all i can say about Lois in this issue is - HOLY HELL-BAT!!!!!! A + + + +

hands down my FAVORITE comic from DC right now!!!!!!! . . . . . . . some of the dialog got a bit cheesy. . . . but at least the story got me invested in the characters early on. . . . . . . the action was just AWESOME!!!!!! . . . and Tomasi is a great writer!! he truly understands how to properly make nods to the Legacy of a classic character. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . disclaimer: no Kryptonian Dogs were harmed in the making of this comic.

this issue was ALLLLLLLLLL kinds of fun!!!!!!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . read this comic!!!!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . it will make your day!!! . . . it will make you smile!!! . . . it will make you gladly kiss $2.99 goodbye!!!

fun enough issue. . . . . . . . . . while i did enjoy parts, the over-all didn't quite grab me like previous issues did. . . . . . . still was fairly enjoyable though. . . . . . . Tamasi has a great sense of the characters and their personalities.

better than the previous issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but still a little enjoyed the first arc more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . some very nice moments between father and son.

Tomasi hits it out of the park with this issue!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for fans of Tomasi and Gleason's 'Batman & Robin' run and Pat Gleason's 'Robin: Son of Batman' this issue was a breath of fresh air!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . this issue really represents the fun and humor that comics NEED! ! ! ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . along with being really funny it also has great action and LOTS of heart as well! . . . . the moments with Alfred and Damian's pets were a Joy to read!!! i'm also really happy to see Maya (AKA: Nobody) return, and even MORE happy to see the return of Damian's Bat-Dragon, Goliath!!!! ((SNORF!)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this story sets the stage wonderfully for the upcoming Super Sons series! we see why Damian doesn't trust Jonathan. his pun about Jonathan frying his family cat was a low blow, but did give me a chuckle! even more cute was when the boys started fighting Damian's pet cat 'Alfred' jumps in to defend his owner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ever since Super Sons was announced i was wondering why DC didn't originally have Tomasi writing it? his whole run of New52 B&R was one of my most favorite comic runs in years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i'm REALLY happy they waited for Tomasi to write Super Sons! . . . . . . . . . . . . KUDOS DC ! ! ! ! !

this issue really felt like the earlier issues of Patrick Gleason's 'Robin: Son of Batman'. . . . . . while when i first started reading Gleason's writing it didn't quite gel with me, i have since grown to enjoy it. . . . . . but you can definitely tell the difference to when Tomasi is writing. . . . . still was a good read. . . . . . . one thing Pat Gleason is really good at is his action sequences. . . . . they feel very animated and JUMP right off the page. . . . . . there were a few parts where the story felt rushed, and resolved a bit too easily and predictably. . . . . . . . . . . . but the turn around gag at the very end made it all worth the while. . . . . . . from the title of the next issue i don't think 'Superman' will be continuing the 'Super Sons' prequel. . . . . . it's a real shame because this story had some great potential, and felt like it could have benefited from having just one more issue to flesh out the story. . . . . . . i'm going to venture the guess that this was a decision by editorial to wedge this story into the series, just to bring readers on board with the upcoming 'Super Sons'?

i just find it hard to believe that Superman's x-ray vision couldn't spot that reveal at the very end of the issue.

some ok moments, but nothing i'd strongly recommend as "MUST READ".

the art for Frankenstein looked REALLY good, but that level of polish wasn't shared anywhere else.

it really feels like Tomasi is grooming Pat Gleason to take over as writer for Superman, while Tomasi get's ready to move over to 'Super Sons'.
not that i mind. 'Super Sons' is what i'm MOST looking forward to from DC.
but as of now the over-all quality of the Superman series feels like it's beginning to slip from the greatness of when it first launched.
this could also be because of the rushed bi-weekly release schedule?
either way, it's still good, but it's just not the 'Awesome' that it once was.

i enjoyed this issue a little more than the previous.
but i'm not loving the series as much as the first and third story arcs.
i put this Frankenstein story in the same category as the one where Superman and Jonathan went to the dinosaur dimension.

oh how i hate to hear myself say this... i usually love Tomasi's writing.
but this really reads like a dumbed down version of Multiversity!!
except missing the charm.

in a way this actually reminded me more of DC's 'Convergence' main title, and that's NOT a good thing!!!

this arc had lots of promise, but feels like its just being rushed along.
oh well!!! at least it wasn't turned into an unnecessarily over-bloated multi-title cross-over event.

oh well! a cheap and easy ending with zero impact!
i mean, over the course of the story there were plenty of deaths, but i felt NOTHING for any of the characters!

this arc gets a rating of - "MEH!!!!"

fun little one-shot with a horror story vibe.
a very creepy and unsettling vibe going on that i really enjoyed.
great moments between Jon and Kathy and a spooky figure that followed them throughout the issue.
i really enjoyed this issue a lot.

i liked this issue quite a bit . . . . . . but i didn't love it.
not much happens, it just felt very short to me.

but at least i finally felt something for the characters.
there was more emotion there rather that just two dimensional planks of wood like the previous story arc.
i am happy that we'll finally (HOPEFULLY????) going to get to the bottom of . . . JUST WHAT IN THE %@$& IS UP WITH THIS CLARK KENT doppleganger from Action Comics!!!!!
i mean REALLY . . . . get the @%&$ on with it already!!!!

though i AM very . . . VERY disappointed that this is a multi-title cross-over!!!!!!! >.<
i just hate when these greedy %&#@&%$#s force you to read another series to continue the story!!!
especially when it's one you have already given up on!!! >.<
one-shots and limited mini-series i really don't mind one bit, but these cross-overs really SUCK!!!

oh well! looks like i have no choice but to get momentarily YANKED back into 'Action Comics' for the next few weeks. :P
they just better not try to pull this $#@& with Super Sons, or i'm going to be PIST!!!

anyway . . . . John catches on fire (MAGICAL FIRE) and disappears and reappears all over the place.
THE END.

i absolutely loved Jorge Jimenez's art for this issue!

while this issue at first felt like it was just going to be a BiG Dumb Punch Fest, it actually turned out to be rather intriguing.
the idea of Superman being from another universe never really felt like it had any actual bearing in this Universe until this story.
sure you can have a character show up from an alternate dimension, and it will be no different than just a mere costume change.
this story was successful in driving that point home.
some of the issue felt padded out, just to showcase beautiful art (which i'll never complain about getting to enjoy some beautiful art) but it felt like the issue could have used more depth. especially when it felt like the characters were in far too much of a rush to start punching each other.

still, the art and the visual storytelling were quite magnificent!
and i enjoyed the sentimental bit at the very end with Clark and family.

i am absolutely thrilled to see Peter Tomasi get to wrap up this loose end from his Dinosaur Island story from his 2016 Superman run. while this story might not do a lot for new readers, it is a must for anyone who has been reading Superman since Rebirth. it's a warm feel-good story, that while a bit predictable was still a satisfying read. i can't say much for the other story collected in this special as when i saw Bryan Hitch's art i just couldn't get myself to read it. nothing against Bryan Hitch as an artist, it's just not for me. the art in the Tomasi story was alright. not stunning or jaw-dropping gorgeous, but serviceable. and that's just fine by me.

Superman seems to be a much better fit for Joshua Williamson than Batman was. If you enjoy some classic Supes mixed with some nice moments with Lois and Jimmy at the Daily Planet, give this one a try.

Overall this was an alright read with pretty ok art. And while I won't be in a rust to read this again any time too soon, Williamson surprised me with this one. I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. . . . . . . (minor spoiler) (minor spoiler) (minor spoiler) (minor spoiler) (VERY very minor) I'm really not sure how I feel about that last page cliffhanger. while the intrigue may be tantalizing, i honestly would have preferred this reveal show up later closer to when this upcoming plot point will start. I just really dislike when stories never have just a nice solid conclusion.

this was the surprise gift that i didn't realize that i needed in my life!!! just wish that it had had a different artist. i'm just not a fan of traced 3D poser figures.

i dismissed this series as "just another Superman comic in an already over-saturated market". well i was wrong! i decided to give this comic a go, and i'm glad i did! the story is captivating, the dialog is excellent and flows really well, and most importantly - you feel a connection to the characters. they feel like real people! and what's more, i find myself really rooting for them and hoping for them to come out alive. this is a post-convergence event. we have pre-flashpoint Lois & Clark living in the post-flashpoint universe. they were teleported into the New-52 universe, and have remained in hiding. like i said- i really feel for these characters, and want to find out how things turn out for them.

excellent issue in a GREAT series!!! i really don't know why this title isn't getting more attention! it's so much better that what we've been getting in the flagship Superman title and Action comics! ….some of the events were a little bit predictable? ….but it's what needed to happen in the story to get things moving. i also really like the way the characters reacted in this issue to the 'Truth' cross-over that's been going on. a very satisfying (and MORE importantly) FUN read!!!!!

last issue left off with Lois and Johnathan trapped about to be Murdered by agents of Intergang. this issue opens up as Johnathan finally discovers the truth about his heritage of being the Son of Superman, and it is AWESOME!!!! really wonderful story-telling! there is a flashback in the beginning of the comic where Jonathan is asking his Mother "who is faster? The Flash or Superman?" and he's even playing with a couple of action figures of Flash and Supes as well! it was SO adorable!!! there are also powerful scenes of emotion. once he discovered his powers, and the secret identity of his father, Jonathan was understandably upset at both his parents. as for Lois and Clark, just try to explain to your child that your family has been transported to a parallel dimension! the art in the comic is really wonderful! this series is beautiful on all fronts! it’s fantastic that Dan Jurgens has stuck with this series all the way to the end and not passed it off so he can focus on his ‘Rebirth’ Action Comics Series. i have a strong feeling the events of this book will have some sort of an easter-egg that will have a profound effect on the events of DC Rebirth. too bad the quality of DC’s writing in the current line of comics hasn’t been this good all along!

for such an amazing series this issue was a HUGE let down!!! . . . . . i had such high hopes for this issue, but the ending just went 'Ker-Plunk!' . . . . . . even the art felt kind'a rushed . . . . . . at least everything else was great up until this last issue . . . . . . . oh well? @<@

it is SOOOOO good to finally have Len Wein (the original creator) back writing Swamp thing! if you've never read the original Swamp thing, you really need to! issue # 1 i available to read for free on comixology >>> https://www.comixology.com/Swamp-Thing-1972-1976-1/digital-comic/24391 <<< definitely check it out!!! over the years many writers have tried to continue the saga of Swamp Thing, but none of them really captured the classic Horror feel of the original. Kelley Jones handles the art duties in a way that truly does justice to the original artist Bernie Wrightson. over the years i have always seen a similar vibe to Kelley Jones art, that i could see he was greatly influenced by Wrightson. ans now seeing Kelley Jones drawing Swamp thing with creator Len Wein he has truly come full circle! if you enjoy a good horror story definitely pick this issue up!!!

absolutely beautiful art, and writing that really makes you care about the character. many of the loose ends from issue one tied up nicely and sets the story up beautifully for the next issue! definitely recommended reading!

one thing i can really say about Len Wein's writing is he has an excellent rhythm to his character's dialog! -- they speak in a very natural manner that's easy to follow and grasp what they are saying! ...SO very rare in a DC comic these days!!! ... there were a few forced name drops of character's from the DC Universe that didn't serve any other purpose other than to probably meet some sort of quota from Editorial? ... that took me out of the story a bit -- and HENCE lowered my score a notch!! ... this was a mostly exposition filled issue leading up to bigger things. but, OH MAN!!!! what a reveal at the end!!!! ... how in the HECK are they going to recover from THIS??? ... my interest is VERY piqued to find out where this all goes?? and i find myself very excited for next moth's issue! ...Kelley Jone's art is as beautiful as ever! his ability to convey shapes and form with his use of solid blacks are some of the best in the business! ... this does feel like an in-between issue, but so far from what i've read i have faith that it will serve a greater whole! ... if you've not read Swamp Thing #1 & #2 yet, i highly recommend that you do!! ...this is one of the most fun comic series DC has given us in a LONG time!!!

after last issue's major cliffhanger i was really uncertain were this series was headed? as you can see from the cover art Alec Holland is no longer the Swamp Thing! they've really presented one heck of a dilemma to be resolved with just 2 issues left, so i'm hoping we don't get a rushed ending! regardless, this issue was well paced and had plenty of fantastic action! another thing this series has is plenty of gore! but it's not just needlessly thrown in just for the sake of shock, it actually serves the story and character motivations really well! if you're a fan of the swamp thing or horror in general i highly recommend this series!

this issue started out SO good, but as it went DCU cameos started popping up EVERYWHERE!!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i love that Matt Cable as Swamp Thing isn't just some two-dimensional villain. he actually seems like he believes his cause to be altruistic, though his methods are very much insane. . . . . . some of the narration in the beginning was a bit much, but things got back on track once Matt Cable began his villain's speech. really cool dialog as he made his demands and what consequences the world would face otherwise. the world has gone to hell in a handbag, and Alec Holland really has his work cut out for him! Kelley Jones provides some really cool looking art!!! very powerful and Malevolent looking!!! . . . . . though i wasn't all too keen on the HEAP-LOADS of DCU Cameos!!!! . . . . . it felt really forced and took me out of the story. . . . . . some felt pretty natural, but most of them were distracting. . . . . . still, i'm really quite satisfied i decided to give this mini series a chance, even though DC editorial is using this Mini-series to pimp out their other characters. . . . . . i miss Len Wein's original run on Swamp Thing when he was about to just create his own cast of supporting characters.

resolve was a little too easy, but the art was pretty cool in parts.

as much as i love this series, this issue never quite sat right with me. i felt Leo's (for lack of a better term) 'journey towards the Dark Side' just seemed WAY too easy, and very out of character!!! there was little to NO resistance! and he seemed to just be acting out a script to serve the plot, rather than a believable character acting out of emotion and having his will bent. the art was nice. it was a pleasant surprise to see all the artists from various story arcs return to illustrate warped versions of the stories they drew. but aside from beautiful art the writing for this issue (sorry to say) kinda sucked.

plot lines and character developments that have been 4 years in the making have all converged in one powerful finale! this issue is well written, action packed, and honestly the best single issue comic i've read in a long long time. everyone should be reading this series!

it's a brand new beginning for Splinter and the Turtles. Splinter has taken over as the head of The Foot Clan, ironically Leonardo is once again the Foot Clan Chunin, and he along with Donatello and Raphael are on a mission leading an group of Foot Soldiers. Michelangelo is on his own after leaving his family at the end of the last issue. there is a lot crammed into this issue. you get only a brief catch-up with each group of characters before the story moves onto the next. the art is serviceable, but nothing i'd have hanging on my wall.

it was pretty awesome seeing Leonardo and Alopex working side by side to train the fledgling Foot Soldiers. i also liked seeing Casey Jones a lot closer to his Mirage Comics roots, as a crazy Gung-Ho Street Vigilante. the art is a bit to underdeveloped for my tastes, but it gets the point across. i wonder what this issue could have been if the art had been done by the likes of Dan Duncan, or Mateus Santolouco or Sophie Campbell?

definitely a step up in the art department from last issue. it's been a rough emotional ride for Michelangelo ever since leaving his family at the end of issue #50. he's pretty much been on his own up until now. i have to say it was great to see Michelangelo smile again, but him joining up with the Mutanimals, you just know that Old Hob has something nefarious up his sleeve.

i have to admit this issue caught me completely off guard! i didn't expect any of the events or character reactions to go the way they did. but it was a very believable turn out, and a very satisfying read. the characters are written so well! it leaves me very excited to read the next issue to find out what's next in store. sorry to be very cryptic, but i don't want to give any spoilers. this was definitely a fantastic issue that ends on a very heartfelt note. if you love TMNT definitely check out issue #53 as well as it's conclusion here in #54.

there was some very good points in this issue, Michelangelo's memories of his family were bittersweet and moving. there was a fantastic fight scene between a mentally preoccupied Alopex vs. the Street Phantoms. and it was great to see Alopex able to resist Kitsune's mind control. it showed real strength in her character. but there were also a lot of painful pages of exposition dumping! especially in the scenes between April and Casey. the final few panels with the couple were emotionally driven, but went on WAY too long! i just wish we could have gotten there sooner! their lover's spat didn't need to eat up as many pages as it did! it was a real chore to get through! sure we've all been there before, but do we need that sort of thing to eat up 1/4 of an issue in our monthly IDW Tmnt fix? the art provided by Michael Dialynas was a real treat! i'm really hoping to see him draw more TMNT in the near future! ....OH! and next month ........ LEATHERHEAD!!!!! ^__^

BEST issue in a LONG time!!!! ....aside from having the treat of Mateus Santolouco's amazing art, the introduction of Leather head was excellently handed. (even bringing up the little easter-egg from 'Turtles in Time') ....... the new developments lead to some really exciting possibilities for the future, and this arc promises to be intense!!! .....i won't spoil the ending. ..... but it was pretty shocking!!! ..... after having finished reading this issue i can't wait to read it again!!!!

the character depictions are spot on! and their and interactions with one another feel so natural. it plays out so cinematicly. it'd make for an amazing feature film or even animation. the intense cliffhanger from last issue leads to a really intense murder mystery, as tensions run high between the groups. . . . . the art is magnificent!!! it really pulls you into the story. and the dialog is TOP NOTCH as well! the characters are so believably real! this has the makings of another amazing story arc to look forward to! i can't say enough good things about this series!

definitely an exciting conclusion for the Leatherhead story. i don't know why, but i was expecting this to spend more time on Burnow Island? but i guess once all the cards were put on the table last issue there really wasn't much reason to stay there? very satisfying read! the art was beautiful, even though Mateus Santolouco didn't get to finish the last few pages of the issue. it looked like it was done by the artist that illustrated the previous arc (which i don't mind at all) . . . . . awesome action, great dialog! . . . . . there are some really tense moments in this issue, and we get to see Leatherhead's actual origin (which is not as pleasant as the one he gave earlier) . . . . . the issue ends on an intense moment that'll have you on the edge of your seat till next month. looking forward to it!

gets us caught up to speed of what has been happening with Master Splinter while the Turtles were away with Leatherhead at Burnow Island . . . . . but it takes up into one HELL of a cliffhanger!!! D:

i'm not sure what comic the "professional" reviews read? but i absolutely LOVED Tmnt issue #60. i've never been one the edge of my seat before like the way they had me for the cliffhanger that issue #58 all the way up to #60 did! . . . . . . . #58 ended with us seeing a main character in peril only to spend issue #59 leaving us in suspense as we see the events leading us back to that point. . . . . THEN leaving us on an even MORE intense cliffhanger. . . . . #60 starts off the same way where we don't immediately see the cliffhanger's resolution, but instead get more backstory. . . . . . but then we FINALLY get the resolution, but with a nice surprise twist!!! . . . . . . extremely satisfying!!!! . . . . . . it was also great to see how Leonardo has built up an immunity to Kitsune's mind control since being brainwashed back in the 'City Fall' arc. it really adds som layers to his character. . . . . . . . i did feel like we could have used maybe a bit more action in the battle between Spinter & Leonardo versus the mind controlled other Ninja Turtles? . . . . . . but seeing just bow much was jam packed into this issue i can't complain at all!! . . . . . i really loved it a LOT!!!! . . . . also the reveal in the epilogue was FANTASTIC!!! . . . i absolutely LOVED the powerful image in the final panel, and what it means for the story to come.

definitely a very exposition heavy issue. this is a very rich layered story than anyone wanting to ‘jump on’ to this series will HAVE to read the back issues!!! . . . . . . . . that being said, Fans who have truly invested in this series will greatly appreciate the depth placed within this issue. . . . . . . . . we get some banter between the Street Phantoms, Jammer and Maze in the beginning of the issue. ( i’m taking it that Turk is the strong silent type?) . . . . . . . . there was a nice showcase of one of the Turtles using some new Tech equipment to battle against the Street Phantoms. . . . . . . . . long time readers will appreciate the callback to IDW TMNT issue #22 with the fighting technique of ‘Debana Waza’ against ‘Katsugi Men’. . . . . . . . . there are some nice bonding moments between Leonardo and Jennika, as they train in the dojo. i really am enjoying seeing her growth as a character. she’s come a long was from being the young blood thirsty assassin, as we see her guilt and remorse for her past deeds. . . . . Leonardo tries his best to lift her spirits from her defeat from last issue, but Jennika is still very much beside herself. . . . . . . . . the bulk of the issue is spent going over plot points that have built up over the entire series, especially within the last few issues since #50. the quiet before the storm. i am eager to see this launch into the next big arc.

as of late, so many sub-plots have been set up in this series ((a bit TOO many if you ask me)) that we haven't really been able to spend enough quality time with our main characters. . . . . . the Ninja Turtles were beginning to feel like guest stars in their OWN book. . . . this issue added the much needed 'PUNCH' back into the comic!!! . . . . . LITERALLY!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . the issue starts with something i've been wanting from the IDW Tmnt comic series since the VERY beginning . . . a total BAD-ASS F$%# S#%@ Up Casey Jones!!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . if that weren't enough there was a TRULY excellent scene between Raphael and Michelangelo that really got to the heart of the characters, the reason for me even getting into the series in the first place! . . . . but the hits don't stop there, we finally get to meet 'The Inventor', and she has just as much Sass as Harold himself! . . . . . . i'm just imagining the two of them going back and forth with one another! . . . . . . . . . . . . last but not least the Scene between Donatello and Leonardo with a HUGE reveal from Master Splinter. . . . . . . . . . . the look of shock on Leonardo's face was priceless!!!!

this issue had some truly great moments. . . . . . . . the depth portrayed by Splinter in his leadership of Foot clan was nice and meaty, as was his speech to Leonardo explaining his actions. . . . . . . . . we get a wonderful dose of Harold in ALL his feistiness telling his kidnappers EXACTLY what he thinks of them RIGHT to their faces! . . . (the reactions of the Street Phantoms were perfect!) . . . . . . . a street battle breaks out as Splinter as the Turtles and Splinter prepare to rescue Harold when another team shows up to the party. . . . . . . it's one of the moments you GOTTA see for yourself! . . . . . . Harold is confronted by his former partner in his escape. we find out a MASSIVE reveal about their past, as well as see that she has quite a few tricks up her sleeve of her own! . . . . . . . we end with ONE HELL of a set-up leading to the next issue.

HOLY CRAP!!! was this issue emotionally POWERFUL!!!! . . . . . . Kudos to the writers and team for a VERY satisfying conclusion to this story-arc!!! . . . . . . . . now it feels like we will be TRULY seeing the effects of Splinter and the Turtles taking over the Foot Clan back in IDW Tmnt issue #50. . . . . . what i love about the way this story is being told (as well as how the characters are portrayed) is NOTHING is spelled out perfectly in Good or Evil. . . . there are SO many different perspectives and varying shades of gray. . . . . . . . the cover really sums it up perfectly as Leo is the one to shoulder the burden of understanding why the Turtles father has pushed them away. . . . . . but hearing Splinter remind Leonardo of what happened to the Hamato family back in IDW Tmnt issue #5, you can see why he is taking the actions that he is. Splinter loves his sons, and will do WHATEVER it is that he has to to protect them. . . . even if that means that he must drive them all away!! . . . . . . . now i'm really excited and eager to see where the story goes from here!!! . . . . . there were so many emotional conclusions in this issue as well!!! . . . . . it's hard to really describe without giving spoilers. . . . but if you've been following this series since the beginning this issue will leave you very VERY satisfied!!!!

truthfully i wasn't expecting a whole lot from this issue. i just figured i't be just a silly/fun throwaway issue!

there definitely was plenty of silly/fun moments, but there was also a LOT of sentiment and heart to be found in the issue as well!

the timing and pacing in this issue was perfect! it played out like a very well done comedy special.
the art was also TOP NOTCH!

anyone looking to come on board with this series, would probably find this issue as a very good 'jumping-on' point.

the epilogue was also very emotional. sweet and sentimental, it was the perfect conclusion to this issues.

Raphael and Angel have tracked Alopex to Alaska, and have set out on a mission to bring her back home.
Alopex still is under the evil witch Kitsune’s mental manipulation.
Raph and Angel have bested by the harsh elements are getting lost in a blizard.
Raphael decides to try an Astral Projection technique that he had learned from his brother Leonardo, so he can use his spirit to find Alopex.
Kitsune’s mental attack becomes more vicious and severe, as she uses Alopex’s greatest fears against her. it is in a moment when Alopex is being overcome, when Raph’s spirit reaches her and gives her the moral support she needs to fight off Kitsune’s mental attack.
the scene plays out a little cheesy and predictable. there's never any real feeling of threat. and in the end it is all resolves pretty easily.

this was a significant issue for showing the Turtles have reached a level of spirituality to achieve Astral projection.
i believe this will come into play more-so as we get closer to the full confrontation with the Pantheon.

i like Alopex as a character, but i am really not interested in fan-service shipping.
save that for the Nickelodeon cartoons. if really i wanted to see that sort of thing i'd just go to DeviantArt.

the intro to this issue with Slash was incredibly touching. the monstrous mutant is enjoying himself reading a book. he stops to answer a rooftop pigeon as to what he's doing doing, then asks the pigeon if he'd like him to read the story to him. such an endearing moment.
the peace and tranquility can only last so long before Agent Bishop and the 'Earth-Protection-Force' show up.
the moment of horror from the E.P.F.'s attack was so beautifully illustrated by Mateus Santolouco. even though it was a terrible moment Mateus really captured the emotion.
after Slash is captured he is put under study, and they are able screen from tests that he had previously been tortured.
Bishop wants to turn Slash into a weapon against his fellow mutants.

i was very grateful for the story in the companion series 'Tmnt:Universe' showing just how much of a complete bastard Agent Bishop is.
even though seeds had been planted throughout the ongoing series, the characters of the E.P.F. and Darkwater had been given more room to develop and better incorporate into the series.

when we catch back up with the Turtles, most of them are enjoying some down time and also getting under each other's skin as family often does.
after a minor altercation Leonardo leaves out of frustration, and does something that pleasantly caught me by surprise.

we later come back to Slash after the E.P.F. had a chance to tinker with the poor guy's mind, he is sent right into the Lair of the Mutaninals. unaware that their friend has been turned against them, the Mutanimals are completely caught off guard.
chaos ensures.

the Ninja Turtles were pretty useless in this issue.
as sad as this is to say, but sometimes the Ninja Turtles are merely guest stars in their own comic book. and this issue is definitely one of those times.

time to just start calling this comic series...

'THE MUTANIMALS'

...OH! and some scenes of the Ninja Turtles tossed in there too!

finally the Turtles start to actually serve a purpose in their own comic.
this series has been introducing far too many characters for the title characters to actually shine.

i did enjoy this issue's conclusion, but i feel like the writers are too busy trying to add characters from past iterations of Tmnt than focusing on telling a quality story.
it's better to focus on your present and plans for the future, than getting too bogged down by the past.

lots of exposition to finally introduce all the members of the Pantheon.
i have said before that there are times when the Tmnt feel like guest stars within their own comic.
this is DEFINITELY one of those times!!!!

The Rat King really shines in this issue.
but that's about all it has going for it.

this issue takes quite a while to get moving. Tom Waltz's dialog written for some the characters is pretty painful to read. Waltz really has no idea how to voice Michelangelo. he just comes off sounding forced and cheesy.
i did enjoy some of the action and antics of this issue, but overall it dragged in the beginning and ended up feeling rushed at the end.
i normally do enjoy Dave Wachter's art, but the action sequences in this issue fell flat.
it just wasn't as dynamic as i needed to be for this story.
a shame too, because it could have been great.

a big set-up issue filled with LOTS of exposition, and not much happening till the end of the issue.
some very funny moments, but i can't say i'm overly excited to re-read this issue again any time soon.

yet another very exposition-heavy issue, as well as felling like yet another issue that the Tmnt just feel like bystanders in their own story.
maybe the writers are too busy freaking out that this has been the longest running Tmnt comic ever?
or maybe they just don't realize exactly how disappointing this series has gotten?
the art is pretty weak, and so is my interest in the Trial of Krang.

the art in this issue is a disjointed mess!!!! the first eight pages of art are dull and flat. not very exciting to look at!! then we go to Mateus Santolouco's art which is very dynamic and very well drawn. then we jump back to art that looks like the artist was given an extremely short deadline to finish. the coloring doesn't do the art any favors. it's too light and pastel. very very lifeless color. there is so much useless dialog in this issue. i understand this is supposed to be a courtroom drama, but this really does NOT make for a fun comic to read! NO THANKS!!! the whole thing felt like a big dragged out diversion to catch readers off guard for the ending.
i wouldn't have been so pist had IDW not wasted $7.99 of my money to do so. they keep this $#@& up and they'll never actually get to make it to issue #100.

this arc shows great promise of things to come, though i am a bit disappointed that the Ninja Turtles are only in 3 pages of the ENTIRE comic!!!
i've been saying for quite a while that the Ninja Turtles have become guest stars in their own comic series! and it's getting RIDICULOUS!!!!

this was still a very well written comic, and the art was excellent!
though i feel the last panel was unnecessarily done just for shock value.
it really made no sense.

here's to hoping that the Ninja Turtles will actually once again become the stars of their own comic series.
i'd love to rate this issue higher, but for the lack of Tmnt in a Tmnt comic i just can't!

very happy to see an issue of the IDW Tmnt that actually has some dang Ninja Turtles in it!!!

the dialog in this issue was really well written, this iteration of Baxter Stockman is by far my favorite over any other! even Baxter from the Mirage comics.

i'm still getting used to the idea of the Triceratons being created of the Earth Dinosaurs and not being of Alien origin, plus more rational of beings and not the war-like conquerors they been in other versions.
we're finally seeing some payoff to Splinter being the Master of the Foot Clan, and i'm really happy to have been following TMNT:Universe to get the back-story of Splinter's new Chunin.

not a whole lot of action in this story, but this is only part 2 of 5 so they are still setting things up for what i hope will be an excellent arc.

so far the invasion of the Triceratons is a bit underwhelming. we're three issues in and not much happened in this issue. the first half of the comic is a LOT of exposition and melodrama. things don’t actually start happening until late in the second half. i wasn't really expecting utter chaos and a complete bloodbath, (ok maybe i was) but i would have hoped for more action than THIS! There's freaking Dinosaur Aliens invading Earth for crying out load! LESS talk! MORE "pow"!!! the idea of IDW April O’Neil’s mother being a former news reporter felt really forced! sometimes this series puts far too much effort into just pandering to Tmnt nostalgia. …introducing obscure characters from the 80’s cartoon, archie comics and 2k3 cartoon, instead of focusing on the the Ninja Turtles themselves. when the Turtles and Splinter finally show up in this issue was nice and all, but not enough to really save this issue from being mediocre. the art was a bit unfinished for my taste. the coloring a bit too bright. doesn’t match the mood/tone of the story. the best part of this issue was Casey Jones, the Purple Dragons and the surprise reunion.

disappointment continues. slightly better than last month's entry, but not by much. this arc has been one of the biggest let-downs for me in the entire series. i never liked what IDW had turned the Triceratons into since the 'Utrom Empire' mini-series, and they only gets let desirable for me within this arc. the issue starts with more uninteresting focus on April O'Neil's parents and their point of view of what's happening around them. but the "epic" battle for NY feels less like an actual danger, and more like a scripted obstacle for the characters to point their finger at. the art style was a bit too rough and under-developed for a battle of this scale. for some of the dramatic scenes were fine. but for a story that's focused on an invasion i'd prefer there be more battle and less drama anyway. the Ninja Turtles finally get to see some action. but most of it is them avoiding gunfire. when they do get into heavy action, most of it happens off-panel. a bit frustrating.

this series has really gotten lukewarm and stale. while this conclusion was ok, i'm not all that thrilled with the anti-climatic ending. there were cool moments in this issue, but the ending felt rushed and really left me wanting more. i think if this arc didn't take 4 issues of dragging it's feet through build-up it wouldn't have been so disappointing.

definitely an improvement for the series. a step in the right direction at least! a good issue, cant say it was a great issue though. it really started losing me towards the middle. i think Tom Waltz needs to ease back on the set-ups and focus more on moving his plot. the story has been dragging for WAY too long and needs to get going. there were some cool moments like the Leo/Splinter meditation juxtaposition. i'm not a fan when the Ninja Turtles are written so goody goody and sanctimoniously. like they are the moral beacon of goodness for the entire universe or something. they come off as very two dimensional when they are written like that. hope the improvements continue, and it's good to see the Ninja Turtles getting some focus in the story again. comicbook round up credits Brahm Revel for the art, but it's actually Dave Wachter.

this series is finally starting to pick up, and i hope it continues to improve. while this issue is far from stellar, it was a mildly amusing read. the Turtles are getting more focus, it's finally starting to feel like an actual Ninja Turtles book again. though this written for trade style is a bit of a let-down as not too much happens in this issue. it's a slow crawl to the finish. there were some very amusing parts, the Turtle's humor was a delight. just hope the series will continue it's focus on the 4 Turtle brothers and let them shine. i'll really be happy once the Pantheon story is concluded. same goes for Bishop and the EPF. i just find them boring and not all that interesting. (((((minor spoiler))))) seeing Leonardo perform the nerve-pinch maneuver on the Toad Baron's frogs was pretty dang funny! the comedy delivered in that scene was the highlight of the issue for me.

i read it, found it mildly entertaining. didn't love it. the story arc with the Pantheon isn't really all that interesting that it can be dragged out and spread thin like this. The Rat King is leading a bunch of generic no-name children to their doom. not very compelling. at least we actually get to spend time with the Ninja Turtles, so it's much better than the 'Trial of Krang' and 'Invasion of the Triceratons'. but that's not really that impressive a boast. Michelangelo shines in this issue and gets some really funny lines. there was also a dialog between April O'Neil and Baxter Stockman with a very promising set-up. hopefully the plot starts moving. this series track record of slow burn story leading to a lukewarm resolution is only going to make more readers continue to tune out.

entertaining though anti-climatic. i'm not saying this was a bad issue, it's just that this series never really gets my blood going. there are never really and "WOW" or 'HELL YEAH" moments. the story just trudges along slow and steady like a little turtle. i am happy that the main focus is on the ninja turtles finally. the turtles do have some cool moments and and decent dialog. i was also happy to see Leonardo actually get to use his spiritual Astral Plane abilities. that was actually very cool now that i think about it. Leonardo in the Astral plane with glowing eyes and glowing swords. pretty cool. i just think the art could have been a bit more dynamic to sell it better. plus the fight was too short. the pacing of this series dose drag! this arc is very unbalanced. the first 3 issues dragged and then the conclusion is crammed into this one little issue. things are definitely improving for this series. but it still is a far cry from excellent.

the things i enjoy about this series- i really like how Waltz is finally focusing more on the Turtles. there are finally fun moments again, Michelangelo is getting to be light-hearted and fun loving. humor is steadily coming back to this series, and that's a very good thing. the Turtles are also finally getting to see some action, though not enough for my taste. the pacing on the other hand is slowwwww. Donatello said in issue 70 that was thinking of turning their old van into a battle vehicle. we finally catch back up with that concept in issue 85 and he’s not even made any real progress with that. this is very slow burn storytelling, with a series of lukewarm anti-climaxes sprinkled here and there. and the melodrama- the series focuses less on exciting action and adventure, and more towards soap opera. like the budding relationship of Vigilante Casey Jones and Ninja Clan Chunin Jennnika. not what i really want to spend time on in a Tmnt comic. “hope you like vanilla, Jennika.” in that line of dialog, it had finally occurred to me what this IDW series is. Vanilla Tmnt. the confrontation with the Turtles and Leatherhead was fascinating. too bad more time wasn’t spent there. Leatherhead is still haunted by his demons and his actions from issue 75. but here we are 10 issues later and we’re finally getting back to that. and who knows how long it’ll be before we see Leatherhead again? Brahm Revel's art is progressing mildly. it's not my all-time favorite art, but it is serviceable. i'll put it this way, it's not art i'd want to frame and hang on my wall, but it tells the story it needs to tell.

verrrry decompressed storytelling. very dragged out story-lines. ....and Bickering Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the midst of it all. the sad thing is there is a full-on battle going on, as Agent Bishop is attacking the Utroms and Triceratons, but we barely get to see any real action. most of the time we see the Turtles they are having a hard time getting rounded up. and when the Turtles actually are all together they mostly just bicker with one another. this felt like only half of a comic issue's worth of story, spread across a full issue. -the cameo of Irma from the 1987 cartoon series was distracting. it took me out of the story. -the build up to the Mutanimals intro was unnecessary. i saw it coming a mile away. we don't need build-ups and plot recaps. we need plot advancement! -a character that was introduced WAYYYYY back in issue #56 is finally going to get used!! 30 issues later?? talk about a plot that really drags it's feet. that's almost 3 years that's gone by. can't say it's had the impact that i would have liked it to. i've heard of writers that write for the trade, but i think Tom Waltz is writing for the OMNIBUS!!!!

so far this story is far too bogged down with pacing issues for me to really be able to tell that there’s been a full on battle going on since last issue. i’m just not feeling the intensity of sense of urgency. now even though this issue really took it’s time to get started, eventually it began to actually feel some sense of adventure… …then the story stopped dead in it’s tracks to give us a backstory we probably should have gotten immediately after issue 70. back in issue 70, Bishop was revealed to the Ninja Turtles as not being fully human. there was a very cool splash page with half of Bishop's face ripped off, and a T-800 looking endo-skeleton underneath. Leonardo even chopped off Bishop's hands in that issue. then the next time we saw Bishop, his hands had been replaced. but NOW 17 issues later everyone is all acting surprised, like this is somehow a new revelation. Ch’Rell gets another big entrance cliff-hanger at the end. hope we get some real action in the next issue.

there were some good points to this issue. there were also some good moments though this arc as well. but overall i can't help but feel disappointed. so much set-up and back story, and not enough action or excitement. the first 2 issues in this arc dragged with lots of set-up, and left everything to happen in this 3rd issue. just as this issues started to get exciting, it stopped dead in it’s tracks for more back-story on Bishop. i don’t really care about Bishop. i actually find him more dull than Darius Dun and the Street Phantoms. and they were barely interesting. (((((spoiler))))) so a character that i really don’t care for escapes to fight another day, while a character i do like dies a wasteful death. and it'd been SO long ago that Slash had been abducted and turned into a killing machine for Bishop, that i'd forgotten why i even really liked Slash in the first place. i'm also not thrilled with the Ninja Turtles being so sanctimonious about not killing Bishop. if they still try to handle Bishop with kid gloves after what he just did to Slash, then i'm probably going to seriously consider to stop buying this comic. (((((end spoiler))))) i’ll try re-reading this whole arc through from the beginning. but as of right now, i’m not really looking forward to it.

this was a really fun issue. wish the rest of the series could be like this. -IDW TMNT is always strongest when it brings focus to it's unique contribution to the series, references to the past lives of Hamato Yoshi, his sons, and most importantly Tang Shen. -the Christmas carol theme was really nice. Oroko Saki's ghost was eerily chilling! -GREAT use of the members of the Pantheon. -excellent writing for Splinter and the Turtles. -the ending felt a bit rushed. i wouldn't mind paying an extra dollar or two for an extended few more pages to solidify the final vision as well as the resolution at the end. -i guess April as well as Harold and his wife weren't invited to the party?

there were definitely very good moments in this issue, but the series really needs to streamline. too many characters and subplots going on at once, the story was all over the place. that’s a big problem. when a series has been built around also selling tie-in series. things become too convoluted. the most frustrating part is that the Turtles mostly just bickered among each other. there were parts that i really DID enjoy in this issue. it’s just not something i could confidently recommend to a friend. part of me really wishes the series would just wrap up. try to at least end it on a high note. end it before the continually dropping sales numbers lead to an eventual cancellation.

this issue was alright. i found it mildly entertaining. all of the plots with Karai, The Foot Clan, The Pantheon and The Dragon Lord have gone on for so long i vaguely even remember them. i can’t even recall what issues those plot were brought up to go back and refresh. guess i'm just losing my investment in the story the longer it drags on. deep down i keep hoping for this series to end at 100, and try to go out on a high note.

years of too many slow moving plot threads have painted this series into a corner. this all should have been set in motion long ago. very interesting topics within the negotiations, but this comic was mostly all talk. new readers will not understand any of this.

an alright issue. things are finally starting to move. a few of the altercations and interactions felt overly forced, but it was still effective to the story. i like that more focus is finally being directed to the title characters. i'd like to see them become more of the driving force to the plot, rather than just being reactionary. unfortunately the preview of this year's IDW TMNT Free Comic Book Day issue gave away what would have been a nice surprise ending. but at least i know to be on the lookout for that comic so i don't miss anything for my set of single issues. Dave Wachter's art is probably some of my favorite from this series stable of artists. he has a great sense of drama, and really adds mood. i have just a few minor gripes. though the biggest is i could have really done without that page of Planet Neutrino. lets tie up some of the overabundance of plot threads, before dumping even more on the pile.

this was an ok’ish issue. some cool stuff finally started to happen. great action. the extendedly drawn out plot threads are really taking their toll. too many characters introduced, some long forgotten. all fighting for screen-time. still felt like more setting things up for what’s to come, than significantly moving the plot. even though it felt like a sharp turn, at least Raph is actually acting like himself, as well as finally paling around with Casey. it’s been too long since IDW really built upon their friendship.

i'm not really sure how to feel about this one. -i really liked the characterizations. -i liked the balance of different plot threads. -i like the intense sense of urgency throughout the issue. HOWEVER... -the overall plot is still taking too long to move. -too much melodrama. -not enough action. -i DID NOT like the ending. the ending felt like nostalgia pandering, and it took me right out of the story.

i'm sorry but the idea of a human mutating into a ninja turtle because of a blood transfusion is just STUPID beyond belief!! it's forced, contrived, and just plain LAZY!!! the worst part is it absolutley ruins everything you built over 200 + issue between ongoing series, side-series, mini-series, one-shots and and any other issues in-between. FOR WHAT? just so you can pander to nostalgia for the people that actually liked TMNT Next Mutation? this cheap SLEAZY publicity stunt has really soured my interest in this series!! it's bad enough that the series has been plagued with TONS of unresolved plot threads for YEARS! so what now? are we going to have Tons of people mutating now because of mutant blood transfusion? they pretty much just broke ALL their sense of suspension of disbelief! TERRIBLE STORYTELLING! there were many other distracting problems that took me right out of this story. but whatever... i just don't care anymore! as a loyal long time money spending customer, i cannot say that i am very happy right now. thanks a lot for wasting my goddam time and money!

a pretty ok issue. the pacing of this series is way off. so many issues where nothing really happened. now it feels rushed with too many loose ends needing to be tied up far too quickly. many of these plot points should have been dealt with so sooner instead of cramming them all in before issue #100. some of the character interactions felt a bit forced and contrived. they feel too all-of-the-sudden rather than built up organically.

for a series that's supposed to be building towards a monumental Hundredth issue there was an awful LOT of talking in this comic! this issue was very unbalanced. mostly all talk no action, just like the rest of this arc. a lot of that talking was recaps of what we just read a few issues prior. more dialog was wasted on useless bickering. things didn't start getting interesting until the very end. but by then the comic was already over. this is going to be a real slog when it comes to trade.

i was honestly very upset when i'd found out this issue was double priced. this probably would not have happened had the series' plot not been so stagnant. the story really needs to start moving faster on a regular basis. at least with this double sized issue we were finally able to get a decent set-up for issue #100. as the front end of this City_At_War arc was dragging sluggishly. this issue starts with more backstory that we really should have gotten back in the story arc from issues 67-70. and some of the unexpected partnerships set-up in the beginning of this arc (that felt very forced to begin with) are already starting to dissolve. overall this issue was enjoyable. many cool things happened. still feels like wayyyyyy too many characters crammed here fighting for screen time. it is honestly very difficult for me to recommend this to someone not already years invested into this story. i've been reading this series since the beginning, and i even have a hard time remembering who some of these characters are, or what their real motivation are.

i wish i could hop on the hype train. a few critics have given this comic a perfect 10. it IS NOT a perfect 10!! jumping back and forth through various artists was jarring. a lot of the art looked very rushed and it really took me out of the story. i guess my frustration really comes with just how much time & money this series takes to go nowhere. they force readers (customers) to have to buy supplement mini-series and one-shots to get the full story, yet so many stories get dragged out endlessly and never really go anywhere, or have a satisfying conclusion. plus what’s the point of buying a Ninja Turtle comic if the Ninja Turtles never really get to shine in their own series? the plot has been meandering for such a long time (since #50) that within the last year or more the writers needed to sell us FOUR (double priced) Marco-series One-shots to catch up with all the plot threads that were dragging for so long. even then there have been too many loose threads to keep track of. i cannot even remember what happened to Metal-Head in this story-arc, nor do i even remember what Leatherhead was doing in the beginning of this arc. many of the resolutions and conclusions within this story were very anti-climatic and unsatisfying! there are just TOO damn many characters kicking around that the focus barely lands on the title characters. the Turtles barely felt like they even really affected the overall plot of the story. so many characters and plot points (that have been clogging up this series) went absolutely nowhere. ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) -Splinter’s death was so forced and predictable in this. i felt absolutely nothing when he died. -what was the point of bringing back Oroku Saki? if he’s no longer evil then what purpose could he possibly serve? -what was the point in wasting time on The Pantheon? they were USELESS. -the Turtles themselves were useless. none of them even got to kill Bishop. -Hun (Arnold Jones) did a 180 in character a while back, just so he can do another one in sacrifice himself for his son. it felt very forced and anti-climatic. -the call-back to Splinter’s opening dialog from issue #1 was nice, but honestly felt very forced in. -what was the point of bringing Krang back? we’ve already told that story, and it wasn’t even that good. ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) i’ve been more than a loyal customer to this series from the beginning. i buy every issue (with variants) all the mini-series & one-shots, the trade paperbacks of the ongoing as well as the collections of the mini-series, and also buy the IDW collection hardcovers. i am really starting to see this as throwing my money away, just so that i can have clutter in my house. i’ve been really thinking about jumping off this series for a while now, but had to see it through till issue 100. ...issue 100 was terribly disappointing. IF i actually continue reading this series, it might just continue buying the digital version on Comixology. but as it stands i seriously doubt that i can continue to invest as much as i have into something so fruitless.

the good -Sophie Campbell’s art is beautiful as always. -Sophie is a much better storyteller than Tom Waltz -better action that the typical IDW TMNT comic. (usually there's none) -Better character development and characterizations. -Sophie understands the Turtles and writes them better than Tom Waltz. -this pleasantly felt more like a Mirage TMNT story (always a good thing) -i liked how the 4 Turtle brothers were portrayed. -Michelangelo FINALLY was given his kitty named Klunk (from Mirage). -i don’t really mind that Klunk is now a white cat instead of an orange tabby. -Raph the vigilante was cool. -Leonardo’s horticulture was a nice touch. -i did like the awareness message about people abandoning pets and loved ones. -it’s always good to see Pepperoni the dinosaur. the bad -the 4 TMNT brothers (as usual) didn’t hold the focus of the comic or story -still the four Turtle Brothers must take the backseat to “the supporting characters”. -i always find it distracting when fan-service characters like Mona Lisa get shoved in. -Mona Lisa is very annoying. her announcing “I’M A GOOD PERSON” was extremely cringe. -Casey dumping Jenny felt off. especially given the events of the arc that just ended. -having Casey and Jenny’s breakup told as throwaway exposition was pretty cheap. hopefully one day IDW's TMNT will actually put it’s main focus on Leo, Mike, Donnie & Raph. just a thought.

better than the usual IDW Tmnt comic, but typical issues that usually plague this series. what good is it to deconstruct the Ninja Turtles, when this series honestly never bothered to really construct them in the first place. this series has always been more about supporting cast than the actual title characters.

very slow and not very exciting comic. had some ok moments, but nothing that is going to draw in new readers. nothing i could honestly recommend.

the Turtles finally pull their $#&% together and stop moping around. there's a lot of talking in this issue. i mean a LOT of it!! if you like melodrama, this is the comic for you. not much else happens, except Mikey finally finds his lost cat. so i guess that was nice.

an excellent start for a new generation of Ninja Turtle comic fans! a bit reminiscent of the Urban Grit of the original Mirage series, the New IDW Tmnt adds a brilliant twist and deeper backstory of Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki spanning all the way back to ancient Japan. this is a great jumping on point for anyone looking to get into this series. my only wish is that they'd include the short story "a lot to learn" from the IDW Tmnt 30th anniversary special to fit in-between issues #4 and #5. but the anniversary special is still able to be found online, and is very much worth picking up!

Juni Ba is a great writer! this is the single best TMNT comic that IDW has put out in years!!! .... *YEARS!!!!* it has done something that none of the past entries had been able to do, keep me entertained, as well as make me actually care about the 4 turtle brothers. this is the level story-telling that the Ninja Turtles deserve. just a pity that we won't see more of this.

This is NO "jumping on" point! This is a continuation of the 150 issue run (plus countless other tie-in issues/mini-series) that had just concluded. Someone coming into this fresh will have no idea what they are in for. This is a terrible idea for a relaunch of TMNT comics! While the art is great, I really dislike that this is not a fresh restart, nor a direction that I particularly care for. The Issue starts with Raphael in prison and his brothers no where to be found. The other Ninja Turtles only appear within a very brief two panels worth of flashback. About 95% or more of the issue takes place with Raph in prison. I cannot even begin to express just how disappointed I am with this re-launch.

very exposition-heavy first issue.
should be setting up some very good things.

much better second issue!!!
the transition from different artists through different dimensions was handled really nice!
love the pair-ups from the members of Ghostbusters to the Tmnt. was done really well.
great character moments with some very excellent dialog.

thought the last issue was excellent, but might have enjoyed this issue even more!!
definitely is an excellent cross-over worth checking out!!

one event towards the beginning of this issue made absolutely no sense to me. aside from that, this was still a very good issue.
the characters are written so well. Erik Burnham might be my favorite Tmnt writer over at IDW.
he gets the Turtles voices and personalities oh so well.

i will say that the end of this issue was QUITE awesome!!!!
i got to see a character return to this series that i really REALLY love!!

while i absolutely loved the beginning of this issue, the end fight with Darius Dun/The Collectors was a bit of a thud.
the only thing really saving this issue from being a '7.0' or '7.5' is just how beautiful the beginning was, both emotionally and artistically. that and the fact that we've gotten plenty of time to spend and enjoy with the Turtles.

overall i can say this second Tmnt/GB cross-over was definitely worth the price of admission.
i really don't mind that the villain was a bit of a flop. as i said before, what i'm happiest about this series is that we actually get to spend quality time with the Ninja Turtles. that is sadly something that has been sorely lacking from the main ongoing IDW Tmnt comics.

Erik Burnham also has an excellent voice for the characters of the Ghostbusters. he has their personalities down so well, you could almost hear the voices of the original actors coming out of their mouths.

introduces Harold (Kirbyfan) to the IDW Universe.

Leo's first brawl with the Footclan. some emotionally charged moments in the issue, and an ominous conclusion.