Batman #101

Batman #101 serves as a great set-up for the new era in Batman comics. And it also makes a good jumping-on point for new readers. After reading this issue, I am confident that we are in or a treat in the months ahead. Read Full Review

I'm elated to see the new direction Gotham is headed towards. I admit the lengthy exposition of Joker War had me doubting Tynion. When I first praised him for doing what he has been. This issue of the aftermath is definitely what Batman and Gotham truly need. Bruce has become his own trope, and to stay interesting and current he must evolve with the times. With March and Tynion at the helm, I think Gotham is already looking a lot better. Looking forward, I can't wait to see how this unfolds. Though I may jump the gun and complain a bit early before being blown away by the result. My question is, will these changes stick? Read Full Review

Batman #101 signals a new era for the Caped Crusader and Gotham as Bruce Wayne grapples with how to change his approach to protecting the city.  Read Full Review

I'm very excited about the future of Batman as Tynion continues to create a reinvention that makes sense without a renumbering, new suit or shocking death to establish. Batman has once again become one of DC's best titles in a time when that kind of consistent quality is most desperately needed. Read Full Review

Guillem March delivers some beautifully detailed backgrounds in this issue. March immerses the reader in the city and all of the external shots look amazing. The fight with Grifter is fantastic as well. There is a visceral poetry to it that is well done. Read Full Review

Batman #101 (#DCComics @JamesTheFourth @GuillemMarch @tomeu_morey @ClaytonCowles) closes out "The Joker War" story, setting up a bold new era for the Caped Crusader. And any era that includes Grifter is one I'm ready for! Read Full Review

After the sheer chaos of Joker War, it's time for a break"at least for one issue, because Ghost-Maker is lurking right around the corner to be the next breakout villain of Tynion's run. But this issue is much more about the long-term fallout of Joker War"and how it's going to change Batman's operation. Read Full Review

When all is said and done Batman #101 delivers a well-executed close to one chapter, as well as the beginning of the next. While some of its decisions didnt jive with me completely, I cannot debate the skill with which the creative team delivered them. Read Full Review

Armed with a newfound introspection and thrillingly laid out artwork, Batman #101 sets the title up with real room to grow into something fresher. After the bombast of his first arcs, James Tynion IV seems to be settling into a more pared-down, leaner take on the Dark Knight and it couldn't have come at a better time for the book. Couple this new direction with the expressive and smoothly produced artwork of Guillem March and Tomeu Morey and you have a Batman that could rise from the ashes of 'The Joker War' a better title and hero. Read Full Review

"Batman" #101 creates an exciting new direction for Gotham's Dark Knight thanks to a strong script from James Tynion IV and Guillem March's expressive art. Read Full Review

Batman #101 sets the stage for the next direction of Batman and Gotham. It also feels like the start of a commentary on the state of our world. Corruption is underpinning society. Those who have, or have supported, heinous acts are hiding their masks from their neighbors. It's something we'll likely see happen depending on who wins the November election and starting to see now. There's a new status-quo in Gotham and Batman #101 begins our journey into that world. Read Full Review

Batman #101 sets the stage for what the franchise will be moving forward. Batman, Catwoman, and Lucius Fox lead what that direction will be with the decisions they each make during the course of this issue. Those decisions along with where Gotham City finds itself post-Joker War create a lot of exciting possibilities for the Batman Family as a whole. Read Full Review

A story concept that might seem like a cheeky pun actually turns out to be a very interesting and potentially exciting status quo. Read Full Review

In my opinion, this issue is a good example of a fantastic artist elevating a mediocre script. Read Full Review

While a great looking issue, the epilogue of The Joker War was more boring than anything else. Read Full Review

Batman #101 really struggles to become an issue worth paying cover price for due to its narrative pitfalls. It seems more concerned with setting up future plots than actually providing an engaging one itself. Especially coming off Joker War's clean conclusion, this issue comes off as redundant. Read Full Review

Readers are treated to a much quieter issue this week as writer James Tynion IV and artist Guillem March exposit the new status quo for Batman and Gotham City. This issue is serviceable, albeit unexciting. Read Full Review

Batman #101 isn't the most exciting issue we've gotten from James Tynion, but it is one of the better issues he's delivered. He takes his time here to re-establish the status quo, and that will hopefully give him a better foundation after the lackluster "Joker War." My only concern is that Tynion will quickly abandon some of the more interesting story elements he introduces here, much in the way that he did when he first started his Batman run. And, if we're honest, he doesn't have the best track record for delivering strong, long-form stories, so I'm not holding my breath. I hope he proves me wrong, I'm just not sure if it will happen. Read Full Review

It's an okay issue that feels almost like it could have been a summary at the front of something more exciting. Not bad, not great and in some regards better than "Joker War" was an entire arc. Read Full Review

Batman #101 sets up an interesting premise. We'll see how well it sticks to it in the future. Read Full Review

Small, straight forward issue that tells us about some of the upcoming changes to Batman rather than showing us those changes. Read Full Review

This latest issue of Batman serves mostly as a transition issue. We have just come out of the Joker War so we need to set up how the circumstances of that crossover have changed things going forward in the Batman book. It's nice for us to have something like this but ultimately the issue itself is not very exciting. Nice to see a surprise appearance in here though. Read Full Review

Overall, this is a dull story in a book who's quality is rapidly declining. Read Full Review

EdNothIng

Oct 20, 2020

I like it

cincyfan

Nov 12, 2020

This is a almost perfect set up for the future of this book and has me very excited for what’s to come. The writing and dialogue are fantastic James Tynion is a brilliant writer. The artwork is also great there wasn’t anything I didn’t love about this one

EDiakota

Oct 23, 2020

" Joker was right." - BATMAN

Comics Code Authorities

Nov 13, 2020

Another "New direction" for Batman? it may be a thing of anticipation if it weren't so typical. How long till the next time alteration brings Alfred back and we can get back to normal? Dc is becoming extremely repetitive over the past 15 years and it's rather tiring. I guess we'll just have to see how this "new direction" goes until the next "New direction." It could be worse, but it seems every time a new writer comes along they want to make a name for themselves by taking the series in a "new direction" and it looks like that's Tynion's intention.

TheHyruleElf

Oct 20, 2020

My problem with Tynion's Batman, aside from the retread of previous stories, is the fact that it breaks one of the first rules of storytelling ALL THE TIME. SHOW, don't TELL. What do I mean by this? Bruce constantly and consistently mentions how "the city is changing" and not once do we actually see that. How nice would it have been to have a scene or two of Batman swinging somberly over the city, no dialogue, looking on at all the changes? When Bruce mentions moving into the Brownstone and changing his style, how nice would it have been to actually SEE that process? Maybe a mostly silent page where he's driving to the new brownstone, he looks up, and says, "Okay, Lucius, let's try it." Even during Joker War, when they mention how civilians were willing to dress up in masks, it would have been nice to actually see the perspective of someone who chose to run with the Joker Army. Maybe a short little five-page intro about a guy who is fed up with every aspect of his life, and we see his shift towards the madness of the Joker. Again, show me, don't just tell me information I'm probably going to forget after I read it. It's scenes like these that really provide the immersive and engaging experience that readers look for, and as far as I'm concerned, I'm not feeling immersed in anything. It feels like Tynion's just telling me information without actually letting the reader see it so for themselves, which is the whole freaking point of comics being a blend of visual and prose. So this is my last issue of Batman for a while. I'll check in in a couple of months to see if anything has improved, but I'm stepping away for now. more

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Criminology. - Oct 20, 2020

Exactly!!! I feel like some of the ideas here are interesting, but sadly, the presentation is far less exiting. This way I have the feeling that nothing happened in this issue.

Afre

Oct 21, 2020

It is a good fallout issue to an event I really didn't care about. But that is fine. It is not bad, the writing is solid and art nice. This means a new change to Gotham but unfortunately we don't see it yet. So this is once again one of these issues where only the next one will tell how good this is. But I'm very glad there is not a breakup or anything between Selina and Bruce.

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LunaMoody - Oct 22, 2020

Basically Bat and Cat did break up. He'll be with someone new before too long and they will be done for good. Or she will be made to do something stupid and he wont take her back. It will be the same BS we always get with them being a couple.

DDJamesB

Oct 21, 2020

Pretty good issue. Sets up a new direction and stakes. Looks good.

Screaming Enigma

Jul 18, 2023

This was my first issue of Tynion IV's Batman, and I liked it. It doesn't quite hook/sell me on this series as a whole yet, but the main reason I initially decided to come back and read from here was because I was able to get the single issues and because the Fear State event interested me. As for this issue, it was solid and I think it lays a little bit of groundwork in terms of what's to come from this series after Joker War.

Federico Liguori

Jul 19, 2023

Weirdest Batman story in recent years.

Hellblazer

Oct 25, 2020

More of a prologue to maybe something new(a low-tech Batman???)

Nihilist

Oct 20, 2020

The previous issue featured several scenes set after the Joker War ended with a bang. Literally. They served as semi closure of the arc as well as tease of what may come next. And so does this issue. I wish instead of what we've got, everything involving Harley waking up and Clownhunter talking to Bats was squeezed into this comic. You know, just a solid line splitting the event itself from a transisional issue, put right in between two separate issues. Instead the event ends, concludes and lays foundation for future events in oversized #100 and then once more concludes and lays even more founation for what's to come in #101. Yes, there's few important things this comic contains, but ultimately it's a fallout issue, one that alone won't be remembered. In next few years if someone mentions The Joker War, they'll be able to say what was it all about and what happened next, but they won't really mention anything we have here. Mostly because more important themes from it will be explored in the foreseeable future anyways. more

DarePool53

Aug 31, 2021

Mostly good art and some enjoyable interactions. However, as has come to characterise Tynion's run, the plot is the biggest weakness. By this, I mean things tend to unravel if you apply any degree of critical thought to them (case in point: the way 'tens of billions' of the Wayne fortune has been by held as cash-on-hand and passed around like a reefer at Coachella). I'll be sticking around for the new arc and am hopeful it will represent an improvement on what has come previously.

axdn

Oct 20, 2020

I hope it gets better.

Psycamorean

Oct 20, 2020

This was fine. I would prefer a Batman that doesn't have the answer for everything and a limitless amount of tech for every situation. I like that concept. It's far more interesting than the alternative. So the promise of that is intriguing. But this issue is all just set up/fallout, and that's not very exciting.

LunaMoody

Oct 23, 2020

Batman 101.........This one is kind of hard to rate. There is a lot of things I liked about it and probably equally a lot of things I didn't like about it. I liked ..... For the most part I liked the art work. I did think Batman was drawn way to old looking and at times looked like he was Thomas rather then Bruce. He even had the spiked shoulders at times. I liked the fight with Grifter. He was a great character from Wildcats. I liked the talking. It's nice to have characters actually interact with each other. It was nice to have this issue be about the aftermath of the Joker war. Which honestly I thought would have been so much better then it was. The idea of it was sound but the execution fell flat. So much could have happe ned with it. It had the potential to have been epic. Now what I didn't like about it....... The biggest thing that I hated about this issue was the Bat/Cat break up. Seriously!!! Again!!??!! I love this couple. I have read/collected DC for 45 years faithfully. Through all the really stupid things they have done with the characters. I get almost every series they have on going monthly as well as mini series that deal with anything Bat family or Superman related. But for the very first time ever I am seriously thinking of dropping them all and going all Marvel. I am so tired of DC constantly screwing with Bat/Cat's relationship. They are an exciting, passionate couple. And they are fun and funny. I love how sarcastic and playful she is compared to his stoic personality. And right now I feel like once again DC has slapped us fans in the face again with a hint of a promise of them being together only to rip them apart. I've had it. I'm really considering dropping all of DC. The way that Bat and Cat are breaking up makes no sense at all. Just a few issues back he was saying if she would just stay with him they would find their way through all of this and now he needs time and space to what get his bats all in a row? Right because having a solid support system when making major life decisions is to hard to deal with. And what about the fact that because of her saving his fortune and cutting the funding to the bad guys to help him, Selina now has a huge target on her back ? This is the woman you love and people want her dead and he's like yeah so I've got to figure out what this whole being alone but not being alone thing is all about so umm good luck with your bad guy problem. Hope it all works out for you and all. I need to be alone now. So he's fine with people being out to probably try to kill her??? The worst part about all this you know what will happen next. He'll take up with someone new and break her heart or she will do something stupid because she's hurting over missing him and that will be the end of them. Just like in the past. Until a new rebirth comes around and then it will start all over again. Another thing I don't like is the whole Wayne fortune thing. It doesn't make any sense. So he's just going to let Lucius keep the money? And how is that supposed to work? Wouldn't suddenly having all that money put Lucius on the radar of the people watching Bruce? Wouldn't that make it look like Bruce as even more to hide? I don't mind a leaner Batman but it should be because the Joker spent it up rather then this way. This way is stupid. I also don't like the whole I'm going to need to learn to do things differently part. He wont kill so how is it going to be any different then before. Catch and escape and repeat basically. So what is going to be different there? Yes he wont have the money to do as he did before but really other than that how is anything going to change? And the last thing that bugs me is Batman's look in this issue. What is with the spiked shoulders? That looked stupid on Thomas and looks even more so on Bruce. So my rating for this book falls at a 5 out of 10 more

SenpaifenixJäger

Oct 20, 2020

A number where NOTHING HAPPENS AGAIN. Tynion is selling us the Cat and Bat series, just that, again DC is afraid that his characters advance. When do you plan to marry Bruce when she is 80 years old? or he will definitely remain an immature bachelor who cries for attention over and over again. The attempt at status Quo is like Marvel's Civil War or the persecution of the Mutants in X-Men. This issue have a lot of inconsistency, it is sad to see how Batman listens better to HIS ENEMIES than to his allies, from UNDER THE HOOD, JASON LET HIM KNOW THAT HIS METHODS WERE A FAILURE, it is logical that everything collapses, the twist of seeing a Batman having to start from almost zero is interesting, that is the only thing but it was seen. What's ridiculous is the spikes he wears on his shoulders just like Thomas Wayne's Batman, THE MAN WHO KILLED ALFRED TOGETHER WITH BANE. I just hope Tynion doesn't surprise us that Clownhunter is his new Robin PLEASE THERE ARE ALREADY MANY COPIES OF JASON TODD Unfortunately it seems that this is what Tynion does, he starts off on the right foot and then comes to nothing. It is not known how Batman or Bruce fixed so many faults with her family, it was only to use Dick as a magic wand. We know that the altercation with Damian will come, I hope the child takes up the mantle of Robin, he is still too young for another identity and replace him with another Robin. Not so bad if she replaces her with Catwoman, but that would only make her a worse father for my liking, let's take the son out of the formula when a new partner arrives, that sucks. However I will give you the benefit of the doubt. I know they will disappoint me. more

Quinn

Oct 20, 2020

Once again we see nothing happen. We are told that Catwoman has to deal with her enemies, that Lucius has Bruce's money and Bruce will have it back if he wants, but eyes will be on him so he can't spend it. Bruce never asks for the money back and says he'll move into a brownstone in the city that he didn't even know he owned. We're told that the city changed and all the Joker goons just took off their masks so no one knows who they are but apparently Clownkiller is tracking them down. Again, that's not how money works. If Joker paid the goons, then there is a money trail. The Board pays off Bruce, but he owns the stock. Stock deals can be nullified when fraud is proven. Lucius says he has tens of billions of dollars in cash, but Bruce didn't have a Scrooge McDuck money bin. His assets were stock, real estate, etc. These aren't liquid assets. Converting them to cash would be impossible even if a whiff of fraud were suspected. So what assets does Bruce have? We don't know. We are told that he can't spend what money he has without receiving attention, so if he breaks the batmobile, he'll have to fix it without using Wayne Enterprises resources. I don't think he ever did that because employees would have had to do the work and why would they keep their mouths shut? Bruce living in the city. Already been done. This whole slimmed down Batman goes back to the VIP concept launched when Robin went to college. There is nothing new under the sun with Tynion. Keeping Catwoman and Batman apart is just annoying. We still really haven't dealt with Alfred's death. All this is a rehash of stuff that's been done before and the fear of actually going forward with the character development that people actually like - Bat/Cat - built on a foundation of unbelievable financial structure. What will happen to all the charities Bruce supports? We don't know. He used his fortune to help a lot of people, is that money gone. The way foundations work doesn't even seem to have a play in this world. I am not impressed, but I could be wrong. more