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jakram's review against another edition
2.0
Paint-by-numbers Batman book. This one has it all. Literally. Almost every D-list villain you could want is here along with the omnipresent (and annoying) Bat-family. Story and art are plain boring, with the exception of a few nicely illustrated issues around the middle and end.
jaepingsu's review
4.0
This continues the high momentum pacing of the first volume. I'm definitely enjoying seeing so many faces and events converging. I'm a bit surprised at how much their maintaining having so many huge events after one another, especially where there being more to come after this volume. Hopefully it will keep the quality up!
Worth reading for Alfred's scenes alone.
Worth reading for Alfred's scenes alone.
crookedtreehouse's review
3.0
Around the time this multi-writer/multi-artist story was coming out, Marvel was putting out [b:Avengers vs. X-Men|16002121|Avengers vs. X-Men|Brian Michael Bendis|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1565481669l/16002121._SY75_.jpg|60047664]. Their top tier writers working together to put out a massive crossover. It was awful. The tone switched from issue to issue, the stakes were unclear, the characters behaved vastly differently depending on who was writing them. It was one of the worst books Marvel put out.
This fares better, tonally, as all of the writers and artists seem to be on the same page and are headed in the same direction. Unfortunately, there are too many detours to keep track of, too many unnecessary and unfulfilling plot twists, and too many characters in this volume.
As with the last volume, the supernatural angle totally hampers the flow of this book. While the destruction of Arkham is a pivotal part of the story, there are dozens of better ways it could have been accomplished than throwing The Spectre, Deacon Blackfire, and The Joker's Daughter at it. It has no emotional impact, no fun dialogue, and no real relevance to the rest of the story.
And while the Falcone/Bard/Gordon/Batgirl/Red Hood/Batman/Alfred's daughter interweaving was fun in the first volume, it drags here as the writers try and complicate things too much. I didn't lose track of the plot because the writing wasn't clear, I lost track of the plot because it was boring and my mind wandered.
I'm not incredibly excited to see where the final volume takes us. This volume had a twist where we found out that the people we thought were the main villains in the previous story turned out to be pawns to the villain in this story, and now we're promised that they too were pawns and ... I don't care. It's almost certainly The Joker. It's almost always The Joker.
This fares better, tonally, as all of the writers and artists seem to be on the same page and are headed in the same direction. Unfortunately, there are too many detours to keep track of, too many unnecessary and unfulfilling plot twists, and too many characters in this volume.
As with the last volume, the supernatural angle totally hampers the flow of this book. While the destruction of Arkham is a pivotal part of the story, there are dozens of better ways it could have been accomplished than throwing The Spectre, Deacon Blackfire, and The Joker's Daughter at it. It has no emotional impact, no fun dialogue, and no real relevance to the rest of the story.
And while the Falcone/Bard/Gordon/Batgirl/Red Hood/Batman/Alfred's daughter interweaving was fun in the first volume, it drags here as the writers try and complicate things too much. I didn't lose track of the plot because the writing wasn't clear, I lost track of the plot because it was boring and my mind wandered.
I'm not incredibly excited to see where the final volume takes us. This volume had a twist where we found out that the people we thought were the main villains in the previous story turned out to be pawns to the villain in this story, and now we're promised that they too were pawns and ... I don't care. It's almost certainly The Joker. It's almost always The Joker.
sean_from_ohio's review
3.0
Scott Snyder and the Bat-think tank are back for the second volume of the weekly series. As the story progresses, we get the same faults as the first volume, too much going on and then forgotten about for a long time. Batman also makes some odd choices, in my mind, as he tries to save his city. The art is as expected, a mixed bag. My hope in the last volume is that the storyline because more cohesive and the Bat-family is more involved.
danidep's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
nina_chan01's review
4.0
There’s a lot to like about Batman Eternal vol. 2. There’s non-stop action, great characters, a crazily convoluted plot that gets better by the page turn, and spectacular events and revelations. So much happens in this volume that there are moments when I forgot how we got someplace. Events from the first volume are resolved, new details are introduced and one heck of a cliffhanger marks the end to a crazy busy book.
My one problem is that there are a couple of moments for a chunk of the first half where the art is poorly drawn – faces often seem like an afterthought. It might have been a bigger problem, but we get some pretty epic spreads and all the “important” scenes are always drawn with care.
My one problem is that there are a couple of moments for a chunk of the first half where the art is poorly drawn – faces often seem like an afterthought. It might have been a bigger problem, but we get some pretty epic spreads and all the “important” scenes are always drawn with care.
professor_buttz's review
3.0
I do like this volume but I expected a little more after the first one. It feels a bit like a rip-off of Zero Year, which Snyder also spearheaded (a policeman even says something to the effect of, "This is just like Zero Year!" at one point.) Corrigan's appearance in the last volume was fascinating but this time his plot point was merely concluded (albeit in a way that was SUPER important but not really.) Action-packed and worth a read but not nearly as enrapturing as some of Snyder's other Batman stuff.
gonza_basta's review
3.0
This line of the Batman's story is getting more complicated and fascinated, but sometimes I have a little bit of difficulty in following it. Anyway good story and nice illustrations.
Questa linea della storia di Batman sta diventando un po' difficile per me da seguire, ma é interessante, comunque bella storia e bei disegni.
THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND DC ENTERTAINMENTS FOR THE PREVIEW!
Questa linea della storia di Batman sta diventando un po' difficile per me da seguire, ma é interessante, comunque bella storia e bei disegni.
THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND DC ENTERTAINMENTS FOR THE PREVIEW!