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Batman #113
| Writer | James Tynion IV, Brandon Thomas |
| Artist | Jorge Jimenez, Jason Howard |
| Cover Price | $4.99 |
Ghost-Maker reveals a dark revelation about his past connection to Jonathan Crane while Batman puts together the pieces of Scarecrow's master plan. Using the Unsanity Collective's technology, the villain plans to detonate a "Fear Bomb" in Gotham City! Backup: Clownhunter has been dosed by the Scarecrow with a deadly fear toxin and is now traveling through his greatest nightmare of Gotham City. Will the Clownhunter center himself and strike back at Scarecrow? Or will he succumb to all his worst fears?!
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9.5
Comic Watch - Ariel B.
Sep 21, 2021Batman 113 continues to advance the Fear State plotline, sending the characters careening toward a decisive answer to the question: Is there a place for the Magistrate in Gotham City? It is big and thrilling and still manages to maintain its humanity and the inter-character dynamics that have made the Gotham titles such a pleasure. Read Full Review
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9.5
Geek Dad - Ray Goldfield
Sep 21, 2021This issue, like the last, is mostly prelude before a coming massive showdown, and it's a testament to just how good Tynion's writing is that it hasn't lost a step. Read Full Review
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9.0
DC Comics News - Derek McNeil
Oct 04, 2021With Batman #113, Tynion has brought us to the point where the real fun begins. As Batman says, "Scarecrow's turned the city into a powder keg. Peacekeeper-01's the match that's going to blow it all to hell". And now we will find out if Tynion's story will live up to this explosive promise. Read Full Review
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8.6
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Sep 21, 2021Jimenez delivers some beautiful imagery. I really enjoyed the scenes with Batman and Montoya where the character seemed to be connected directly to the shadows in the room. Read Full Review
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8.0
Dark Knight News - Max Byrne
Sep 21, 2021Batman #113 is a nice contrast to previous issues, as it's Slightly slower-paced, but not to its detriment. It's an issue with lots to digest and enjoy. As this arc continues over the next couple of months, we will no doubt get more bang for our buck, but this is perfect for right now, and this installment is certainly one that fans should really enjoy. Read Full Review
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8.0
Graphic Policy - Brett
Sep 22, 2021Batman has been an excellent series and Batman #113 does a good job giving us a slight break for new readers and laying out the challenge and what might be ahead. It's a slight pause to the flow but it's still not bad and does answer at least one issue, how did Scarecrow mess with Batman's head. As a slice of the overall story, it's solid. On it's own, it's a bit wobbly though. Read Full Review
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8.0
COMICON - Tony Thornley
Sep 27, 2021The Dark Knight's darkest hour gets intense. It's a great chapter for one of the most interesting creative teams working in comics right now. Read Full Review
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7.5
AIPT - Ben Morin
Sep 21, 2021Batman #113 rectifies some past problems while continuing others. The action beats are the high points here especially with the artwork. Yet at the same time, the issue continues to feel the need to over-explain/re-explain the plot and somehow still leave the end goal ambiguous. This issue is a step in the right direction for the arc and continues to be one of the best illustrated books on the comic rack. Read Full Review
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7.0
Lyles Movie Files - Jeffrey Lyles
Sep 21, 2021Fear State isnt gaining much momentum and so far hasnt been as edge of your seats exciting as The Joker War. Tynion clearly still has time to end his Batman run on a high note, but its coming off the blocks very slowly so far. Read Full Review
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7.0
Comic Book Revolution - Kevin Lainez
Sep 23, 2021Batman #113 solidifies the foundation for Fear State created by the two issues that proceeded it. Now that all the set-up is out of the way Fear State could quickly match and exceed the scope of a story we saw in Joker War. Read Full Review
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7.0
Henchman-4-Hire - Sean Ian Mills
Sep 25, 2021Another fine issue of Fear State, with solid writing and art; though one rather silly retcon really pushes credibility. Read Full Review
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5.5
Weird Science - Jim Werner
Sep 21, 2021Fear State continues, and while I want to see how the Scarecrow's plan is working in a big picture sort of way, Tynion narrows the view even more. This issue looks great, but the story only moves inches on all fronts and needs to pick up asap. Hopefully, the tie-ins lend a hand because the main book has been a dud so far. Read Full Review
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5.0
The Batman Universe - Scott Waldyn
Sep 21, 2021Batman #113 is an exhaustive exercise in repetition with incredible art. Your eyes will love the visuals, but the lack of story and repeat exposition will make you weary. Read Full Review
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5.0
ComicBook.com - Nicole Drum
Sep 22, 2021Ultimately though, the closer we get to the end of Tynion's run, the more it seems like the real plan is just to keep repeating things and hope no one notices there's no "there" there. Read Full Review
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4.0
Batman-News - Cam Lipham
Sep 25, 2021I'm so tired of being told about what's going on instead of seeing literally anything happen. This is incredibly boring, albeit flashy and pretty to look at, but I can't wait to move past it. I was really excited for Fear State as well, I'm disappointed. Read Full Review
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This continues to be my favorite book. I am in love with tynion's batman run and so far the fear state storyline looks like he might be going out on top. I love a book that develops a story and has depth I also really like when there is a good amount of dialogue. Tynion is a master at all these things his batman books have an incredible amount of depth emotion and intrigue. The artwork is stunning as well and when you put the two things together you get an almost perfect comic book. This book just seems like it's on a higher level than almost anything else. I absolutely love reading comic books from all era's and build and read entire volumes of my favorite characters and teams. Batman is one of my favorites and for me personally this run t more
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9.0
Fear State is the most on-target topical comic on the stands today: the media pushing bs so the gov can control the masses through fear. It's clear as day in the flashback where Scarecrow reveals his plan to Ghostmaker. He even goes so far as to say Silicon Valley was salivating at the idea.
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9.0
Tynion took the red pill on his way out with a great portrayal of the fake news media.
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8.5
This was another well-written issue from Tynion, but I do think it's time for the pace of this story to pick up a bit. I enjoyed this issue, but we're three issues into Fear State and it doesn't feel as though much has actually happened. As for Jimenez, I don't think I need to write much about how good he is at his job. He seems to always to great work, and this was not an exception. As for the backup story, I'm not as into it as I was in the previous issue, but it was still enjoyable. I am glad it's only three issues, though, because it's nothing extraordinary. The art is pretty cool in it, though.
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8.0
A lot better than some previous issues, still a hell of lot of dialogue to read. It still feels in places that it is in it's pre-event stage and giving us information rather even though event has officially started.
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8.0
I enjoyed it the art and action are great. Hopefully next issue picks up though. I think its redundant when we already have 3 issues of scarecrow explaining his plan
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8.0
Once again a little redundant but, there was something Iliked about it. It really had some good creepy parts and that art was fire.
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7.5
This was by far my favorite Batman book in Fear State. I was actually going to unsubscribe, but I already got charged and this was delivered to my iPad anyways. I really liked it.
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7.5
I liked this number a lot more than the Nightwing one that crosses. It was agile, with action even if there is no real progress.
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7.5
Aside from the trip to the astral plane, there's nothing really new here. There's lots of exposition that we've already read before. The Clown-Hunter story was a mess.
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7.0
It feels like it is progressing although in development it is still stagnant, but unlike there is more action, the characters move a little more.
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7.0
This wasn't as good as the first issue of this event, but it wasn't terrible. The stuff with Ghost-Maker is pretty stupid if you've ever looked into what anti-social disorders actually are. I feel like a lot of Tynion's work takes these base, cheesy tropes and tries to mesh them with a form of commentary that does not fit together. This is kind of relevant here, and a whole lot more relevant in that Miracle Molly one-shot that I'll get to. I kind of don't care about this event so far.
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6.0
I felt like the writing was pretty inconsistent and the backup just doesn't add anything at all.
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5.5
There is good progress in the story, but some loose ends remain. I think it is the first decent number since the idea of "‹"‹replacing Batman began, although this Future State still does not convince me, we will see how they play with Fear. The backup story is a complete waste of ink and paper. Just bad.
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5.5
Oh jesus! we are caught in an endless loop with this. It is too boring, it seems to me that wanting to throw Batman into the world when the reality is that the character in comics has lost strength and continues to lose it with boring stories one after another, it is simply like stabbing the character to the heart.
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5.0
"I'm the 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇 hero!" Took me ages to finally get through this issue. It's just so difficult to muster any sort of excitement for this story anymore. I mean, a villain took control over Gotham for the third time in some hundred-plus issues. GET. SOME NEW. IDEAS! And if that wasn't enough, Tynion breaks out the Bat-Mind-control-VR goggles and serves an exceptional plate of conveniences. Thankfully, Ghost-Maker is here to save the day and be bland as hell. Even the art was boring in this issue.
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4.5
Fear state is living up to my expectations. Too bad what I expected wasn't much. Tynion certainly loves putting Ghost maker in the spotlight, as he had to be the one who learned of the Fear state from Crane. Too bad he's his creation's number 1 fan. I'm hoping after this is over not to see Ghost Maker again for a looooong time. Fear State is better than City of Bane, but not as good as the Joker war. May it be the final Gotham under siege crossover for many years to come.
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4.0
Speaking of assassinating a character, this is the best example of how a publisher can assassinate its greatest icon by cruelly dismembering it. Not the original and only Batman is being riddled in a cruel way in each of his comics, it is a real shame to see how the most interesting character of DC dies in popularity and not only him, the same publisher is falling with what he is doing with Batman and Superman.
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3.5
This issue is sound and fury signifying nothing. Again, it's all exposition. The handicaps Batman faces are explained, but we don't actually see how they affect his fighting. We don't see how he overcomes it. The plan by St. Simon Says is a false flag operation. But we knew that. Batman explains it to the commissioner and she says "I need proof, McGonicle." Batman says I'll get right on it. Except that there are things happening on the street that people can see. There's no way the Gotham PD would be blind to that other than the writer says they are. Yet another city goes to hell story. And don't get me started on Simon, Simon, Simple Pieman getting scared that his plot is being exposed. That thought never occurred to him? Now that's more
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Batman and Detective Comics are a complete mess. This story is thrown together and there is no balance between dialogue and action. 0/10
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