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daileyxplanet's review
4.0
A good look at the aftermath of the cataclysmic Gotham earthquake. I am ready to get to No Man's Land proper, but one more volume first.
daileyxplanet's review against another edition
4.0
Good read. I look forward to getting to No Man's Land proper, but I do enjoy the journey.
oddmara's review
2.0
Took me a /while/ to read through this and it honestly wasn't that great. There was a few issues that were nice, like Helena saving those kids from that butcher (I love her, she's great, give me more of her content please), and the issue with Batman and Nightwing being very sad and angsty and making me cry, and Tim and Nightwing's stuff, but OVERALL it was just a lot of filler content. While this type of story-telling was amazing during the actual Cataclysm stuff, right now it's become pretty repetitive and boring. We get it. Gotham has been destroyed. We're all crying. Everyone is leaving. Etc, etc. There's no need for 400 pages of it.
oddmara's review against another edition
3.0
Better than the first volume, still nothing great though. There was one issue with Batman and Dick where there was a lot of introspection into their relationship and their characters and the way they evolved as characters which made me cry. There was also another issue where Batman gave the speech of why the Congress should save Gotham which was super cool with parallels of the speech and his life as Batman which also made me shed a tear. Something about parallel story telling. This one was more enjoyable to read because it had more put together story-telling and less "every single issue is just Batman moping around", although honestly, Nick Scartch didn't make it very enjoyable to read. Where did he come from. What is his deal. Why is he so upset about Gotham just existing. Also, one thing that was very upsetting was the fact that Jean-Paul seems to have had his mind wiped from the Knightfall arc because there were so many questions that Jean-Paul asks himself that have fully been tackled there so like. Idk. Maybe I was the only person subjected to reading Knightfall.
Jean-Paul is a bit much.
Jean-Paul is a bit much.
ferzemkhan's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
newbarrel's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
perses's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
rashthedoctor's review against another edition
3.0
This was a significantly better result than the previous volume . However even this hasn't aged well , and along with the 90s artstyle and cheesy dialogues , this book also has an additional burden of delivering a lot of monologue.
Nick Scratch retains his spot as the useless , unattractive villain , with absolutely no allure but his contribution mainly centred on him debating with billionaire Bruce Wayne in favor of declaring Gotham No-man's-land. This whole volume is about said debate , and if you aren't a big fan of long monologues in comics , this will piss you off .
There are other side stories involving various Batman universe characters ,including Jim Gorden , and I'd say they are interesting but really not all that appealing
Nick Scratch retains his spot as the useless , unattractive villain , with absolutely no allure but his contribution mainly centred on him debating with billionaire Bruce Wayne in favor of declaring Gotham No-man's-land. This whole volume is about said debate , and if you aren't a big fan of long monologues in comics , this will piss you off .
There are other side stories involving various Batman universe characters ,including Jim Gorden , and I'd say they are interesting but really not all that appealing
rashthedoctor's review
3.0
Start of the whole No Man's land saga. I have read the whole thing before , but for the sake of it , I decided to re read it . And it's not aged as well as I remembered it .
The art , considering it's time , I have decided not to talk about . In terms of plot , the basis is simple , USA is finally abandoning Gotham and doing so at the hour of it's need .
The creation of Nick scratch as a villain to convince USA for the creation of No Man's land is ludicrous and the existence of Scratch as a villain itself is eye-roll-worthy .
A lot of story takes place in the Azarael storyline and I am not a Azarael fan so it was all a boring blur . The dialogues were campy for most part as well but you can probably discount that because of the era it was written it
Overall a mediocre produce
The art , considering it's time , I have decided not to talk about . In terms of plot , the basis is simple , USA is finally abandoning Gotham and doing so at the hour of it's need .
The creation of Nick scratch as a villain to convince USA for the creation of No Man's land is ludicrous and the existence of Scratch as a villain itself is eye-roll-worthy .
A lot of story takes place in the Azarael storyline and I am not a Azarael fan so it was all a boring blur . The dialogues were campy for most part as well but you can probably discount that because of the era it was written it
Overall a mediocre produce
zsherwo1130's review against another edition
The art took me completely out of the story. ‘90s Batman was drawn super weird and I just couldn’t get with the styles in which it was drawn