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sayre_94's review
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
dynila's review
1.0
Apparently losing your fear makes a person a giant muscle-bound cretin. The story here was disjointed,but not overly so. The art, especially in the beginning issues (see note above) was a real disappointment.
daphne_dlcrz's review against another edition
3.0
When I started reading this comic it seemed like it had promise. But by the time I got to the middle of the comic I was so painfully bored with the reading. Sometimes I had to re-read a sentence or two because the wording was off or just plain bad and didn't make sense. The drawing style of the comic has more of a realistic approach, which is fine at times for me. Overall, the story for me was pretty dull, boring and long to be enjoyable. Could have been a lot better in my point of view. I found that the best part o the comic was the ending.
helpfulsnowman's review
3.0
There's a good and a bad to this.
The good is that at least Batman was punching people in this one. There was a good amount of action, which some of the other new Batman titles are lacking sorely.
The bad is that the overall story was pretty, well, business as usual. Bane tried to kill Batman. Someone made a weird Scarecrow formula.
The best parts in this book were the Alfred bits. I'm serious. There were a couple sections where Alfred was actually funny instead of acting like Batman's mom and suggesting he stop fighting crime for the upteenth time. There's even a part where Alfred hands Batman an ice cream cone. I'm not sure why exactly, but regardless, seeing Batman hold an ice cream cone is one of the bigger thrills of my recent life.
I DO feel obligated to inform you at this point that my life is an endless labyrinth of darkness and shame from which there will be no escaping.
The good is that at least Batman was punching people in this one. There was a good amount of action, which some of the other new Batman titles are lacking sorely.
The bad is that the overall story was pretty, well, business as usual. Bane tried to kill Batman. Someone made a weird Scarecrow formula.
The best parts in this book were the Alfred bits. I'm serious. There were a couple sections where Alfred was actually funny instead of acting like Batman's mom and suggesting he stop fighting crime for the upteenth time. There's even a part where Alfred hands Batman an ice cream cone. I'm not sure why exactly, but regardless, seeing Batman hold an ice cream cone is one of the bigger thrills of my recent life.
I DO feel obligated to inform you at this point that my life is an endless labyrinth of darkness and shame from which there will be no escaping.
ferrisscottr's review
2.0
Meh
I've been reading comics for 40 years and I've never understood the attraction to either Batman or Superman.
(my opinion) Batman is just really not that interesting of a character - kind of a one trick pony.
But I try every 5 years or so to read something in the hopes that I will discover what I've been missing (everyone else seems to love him) and this just didn't do it for me.
Oddly the story I was most looking forward to was when Judd Winick was the writer and that was also the low point of the book.
Most will like this - I didn't.
I've been reading comics for 40 years and I've never understood the attraction to either Batman or Superman.
(my opinion) Batman is just really not that interesting of a character - kind of a one trick pony.
But I try every 5 years or so to read something in the hopes that I will discover what I've been missing (everyone else seems to love him) and this just didn't do it for me.
Oddly the story I was most looking forward to was when Judd Winick was the writer and that was also the low point of the book.
Most will like this - I didn't.
sagesaria's review
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
opentopersuasion's review
2.0
After reading some later issues that I liked, I thought I’d start with the beginning of this series in trade format.
The book was disappointing...what I like about Batman is the anguish of good guys becoming bad guys and vice-versa (the Joker tries to feed his family and ends up doused in chemicals and his brain goes hay-wire, Batman goes from being a sad orphan to an obsessive, monster-like figure). But I guess since you can’t only do origin stories, you end up with stories like this one.
The story plops you in front of a break-out of Arkham Asylum, only this time the bad guys are hopped up on some kind of drug/venom/poison. I’m not a full-on Batman expert yet, so I didn’t know a lot of the baddies, and even the ones I did know seemed to be just randomly put there. There were just so many that you only see for one or two pages, then disappear. The plot was meandering and weak, with random explanations for curing the poison that made no sense to me...Quick, you have to push him over the edge, that’ll cure him! ...What does that even mean?! The girls on the pages were the same to me as the villains, very fleshed-out, well done art for no real plot value other than to ogle at...super muscley guys and super sexy ladies.
Since what I liked in the single issues came later, I might still be tempted to try volume 2. But I’m not so sure.
The book was disappointing...what I like about Batman is the anguish of good guys becoming bad guys and vice-versa (the Joker tries to feed his family and ends up doused in chemicals and his brain goes hay-wire, Batman goes from being a sad orphan to an obsessive, monster-like figure). But I guess since you can’t only do origin stories, you end up with stories like this one.
The story plops you in front of a break-out of Arkham Asylum, only this time the bad guys are hopped up on some kind of drug/venom/poison. I’m not a full-on Batman expert yet, so I didn’t know a lot of the baddies, and even the ones I did know seemed to be just randomly put there. There were just so many that you only see for one or two pages, then disappear. The plot was meandering and weak, with random explanations for curing the poison that made no sense to me...Quick, you have to push him over the edge, that’ll cure him! ...What does that even mean?! The girls on the pages were the same to me as the villains, very fleshed-out, well done art for no real plot value other than to ogle at...super muscley guys and super sexy ladies.
Since what I liked in the single issues came later, I might still be tempted to try volume 2. But I’m not so sure.
himiko's review
adventurous
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5