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A review by enriquedcf
Batman, Volume 8: Superheavy by Scott Snyder
3.0
I remember the buzz around this arc back then. "Bruce Wayne has amnesia and Jim Gordon is the new Batman"; I remember some comments about how it was surprisingly effective, but in hindsight, replacing the billionaire playboy with a police officer that wants to act without oversight as Batman was not the best idea.
Still, Superheavy feels more like a middle chapter, just a bridge between something and Bloom, and I guess that's my main issue, Superheavy doesn't stand on its own, and though Bloom finishes the work, I feel like there's a whole first chapter missing. We go from the chaos of Endgame, to a couple of issues of calm here, and then chaos again in Bloom; the quiet and personal moments that Graveyard Shift gave us between Zero Year and Endgame work because they are a breather, but Superheavy is not a breather, is just setup for the next Gotham destruction event, which at this point seems to be the basic approach by Snyder and Capullo.
Still, Superheavy feels more like a middle chapter, just a bridge between something and Bloom, and I guess that's my main issue, Superheavy doesn't stand on its own, and though Bloom finishes the work, I feel like there's a whole first chapter missing. We go from the chaos of Endgame, to a couple of issues of calm here, and then chaos again in Bloom; the quiet and personal moments that Graveyard Shift gave us between Zero Year and Endgame work because they are a breather, but Superheavy is not a breather, is just setup for the next Gotham destruction event, which at this point seems to be the basic approach by Snyder and Capullo.