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Jul 17, 2019
WOW.
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Jul 17, 2019
Great!
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Jul 17, 2019
I love when Tony draws Batman, some people just don't like it or some people just hate it, but I like tony style and the Mitch art is awesome 10/10. The story starts strong I think big things are coming, the dialogues are good, and this issue feels like a Batman story but you know, it is a twisted Batman story. (10/10).Overall, I guess if you don't like this Batman maybe you don't find anything in this issue to change your opinion or maybe not, but beyond that I think that this will be a fun and crazy adventure.
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Jul 17, 2019
Awesome!
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Jul 17, 2019
This is GREAT
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Jul 17, 2019
This was amazing. I didn't expect the City of Bane to literally be a working city ruled by Bane. It was simultaneously striking, alien, and hilarious to see all the villains doing what they do in this issue.
Also the way y'know who shows up again? Perfect.
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Jul 19, 2019
I honestly had a hard time enjoying moments in this series but this issue definitely got me excited all over again. There so much to take in; from Riddler and joker working together and Thomas Wayne working with Gotham girl. There just alot and CATWOMAN. I'm over joyed and totally excited to see this to the end. Can't wait to see what's next.
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Jul 17, 2019
What an epic start to this arc.
In this issue, we get to see Gotham under the control of Bane. Joker and Riddler taking on a homicide call, Hugo Strange is the commissioner and Batman is Thomas. Everything is different now and not only it is fun to read, but it also sets up the story amazingly well.
On the other side of the story, we got Bruce, on a quest to find someone who is revealed at the end of the issue and has me super excited to see where this is going.
Art, as usual for this series was amazing. Both Daniel and Gerad just draw some beautiful stuff. Not much else to say, it's damn good.
Honestly, I couldn't ask for a better start for this arc. Can't wait to see how this will end.
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Jul 17, 2019
"All can be doubted. All but Bane."
Here we are, City of Bane has begun and it's a blast. After breaking the Bat in the last 25 issues, the Venom-infused giant made his move on Gotham.
This issue is divided in 3 parts :
First, we have a glimpse of the New Gotham City under Bane's reign. We see Riddler and Jocker doing detective work and it's incredibly cool to see how King handles the new dynamic of the City. Then we saw Comissioner Strange calling for Batman and his Robin. Thomas Wayne and Gotham Girl are really well used and we have an explanation on why the other members of Bat-family are not around, and even if it might not satisfy everyone, it was pretty much on point. But, the biggest revelation was on how Bane was controlling
every other villain : simple and efficient, using psycho-pirate wich is coherent with the story.
Secondly, we see the broken bat wandering in the moutains. Weak and defeated, he get beaten by two thugs and then get reunited with the one he met on a boat. Not much to said beside we, for once, really see how much bruce has been broken.
Then we have a long discussion between Bane and the Apex predator. He explain what he did to the city and why he did that way and he was perfectly on point. We also get a tour of all the key players in this city and it was amazing.
To conclude, it was a great issue. Tony S. Daniel give everything ( but i really don't like his Joker ) but the real stars are Tomey Meurey with his amazing colors and Mitch Gerards who blew my mind on every panel. Tom King delivers a very good introduction to his last arc and I can't wait to see what's next more
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Jul 17, 2019
So. Much. Happening. Can’t wait for the next one
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Jul 17, 2019
A good start
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Jul 17, 2019
Finally, King gets his game back, just in time to finish his run on Batman. While there were many bumps, this issue was a great start to a (hopefully) satisfying conclusion on Batman that looks to be very interesting. I loved the art in this as usual, one of the consistent good parts of this entire run. The story is interesting, loved seeing Thomas and Alfred have a conversation that is sure to be surreal for the latter. Meanwhile, it sets up intrigue for Bruce in the next issue, as well as the Batman/Catwoman miniseries King is gonna write. Overall, good solid start for the end.
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Jul 18, 2019
Now we’re talking. Finally have me hooked on how this is going to play out
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Jul 17, 2019
I like that Bane has Psycho Pirate turning the other villains into his police force. That's kind of fun. And I'm glad Selina is finally back. But I'm still disappointed in a lot of the story. All the pages of Bruce climbing the mountain in the snow while the reader is being told a stupid useless story of a farmer was just wasted space that could have been used for real story telling. Same with Gotham Girl rattling on endlessly about nothing. All that unnecessary dialogue makes me as a reader feel cheated on once again of getting a story told to us. And being told a story is after all the reason we buy the book to begin with. Also the conversation between Lex and Bane would have been more enjoyable had it been made clear from the start who w
as talking, It also would have made the exchange more understandable in terms of what was being said. I for one had to read it twice to be sure I understood what was being said. But who knows maybe that's just me.
I am not and never will be a fan of the character of Bane. Truthfully I've always thought of him more as a joke and just not all that interesting of a character. So originally I was so dreading the whole City of Bane story arc but that changed after the last few issues. In fact I was so so excited to get this issue after the build up from the last few issues. I was expecting a great story. While it delivered on some of what I was hoping for it still fell short in many ways. Unlike many readers I've liked Tom Kings run for the most part. I just wish he would work more on the telling of the story and leave out all the endless useless babble that wastes space and drags the stories down. Hence the rating I gave the issue. Kings run is over in 10 issues. I should think he would be putting more effort into telling the story since his run has been shorted. But the story still feels like it's just crawling along. And he is still wasting valuable space on filler junk. I don't know maybe if the reader hadn't been told from the beginning that his run was all part of a larger story line it wouldn't feel like it's going nowhere at a snails pace. I think had the reader been left to see each part of the story as just a story arc that peoples view of the run might have been more favorable. But again that could be just me. I wonder though.....??? more
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May 02, 2023
I'm still not a fan of villains working together like in the War of Jokes and Riddles. Especially the Joker, that King clearly doesn't understand and can't write. I'm curious about this storyline, but the best parts of the run are a far cry.
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Jul 17, 2019
"Maybe"
This was actually, surprisingly, entertaining. Odd.
First things first though. Gotham Girl's dialogue was just awful. It was painful to read. And if I'm going to have read the bit about boat or street one more time... I'm gonna lose it.
Now positives. There's a couple of them, actually. Odd.
The artwork was good, especially Mitch Gerads' part. The page where Gotham Girl makes her entrance was pretty good too.
And I can't deny it. What Bane did with Gotham City is just so cool. Brainwash villains into submission, keep the Justice League away by threatening to hurt innocents and defeat Batman by finally bringing "peace" to the city.
Yeah, it's cool.
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Jul 17, 2019
I don’t think this issue is that bad. Tony S Daniel‘s art is awesome& I wish he drew the entire issue. I was never a fan of Mitch Gerard‘s art. It feels too rushed.
As for the plot we are getting a glimpse of how Bane‘s city looks like ( which is basically Arkham War 2.0., but with less fun)& at least many villains made an appearance. There are some funny ideas like Hugo Strange as the Commissioner or Joker& Riddler as cops. Those are quite random though& Scarecrow’s& Joker’s team up during Knightfall was way more fun. King also writes a weird& unfun Joker. Speaking of Scarecrow. Of course there's as good as every villain in this issue except Scarecrow ( can’t blame him though). But what annoys me, that King gives a loser l
ike Psycho Pirate such a big role in this. King overpowers him and makes him control every other villain. If it was that easy Psycho Pirate ( a shame I even have to mention a D villain like him) would have controlled Gotham years ago. I however find it positive, that Thomas didn’t kill villains like Two Face, who didnt want to play along considering his Flashpoint days. I hope that stays this way. It better does!
As for Bruce he’s somewhere in the mountains& meets Catwoman ( if she was just an illusion, it would make sense, but since this is King I wouldn’t be surprised if it was her for real). That’s one thing, what ruins this issue for me, because I’m quite annoyed by this Batcat crap King is forcing on us.
This issue also still faces many problems& plotholes. There are still questions King refuses to answer:
-Why& how is Flashpoint Batman even in the canon timeline?
-Bane‘s plan is still dumb& unbelievable especially because Bruce went through worse than a breakup.
-If Thomas brings Ventriloquist into the batcave wouldnt he know Bruce’s real identity?
- As if the JL or the batfamily wouldn’t do anything against Bane.
- Wasn’t it stated, that Gotham Girl is going to die, if she used her powers once more?
This issue also suffers from Kings typical problem the bad dialogue. Especially the way Gotham Girl talked was bad. Why is it so hard for King to write a decent dialogue?
This issue also ties in Years of the Villains& that’s where it makes zero sense. In JL Bruce is Batman& there is no problem with Gotham mentioned. I also doubt he would hang out with the others, if Gotham just fell into anarchy. Kings story doesn’t fit with the big event at all& I also have the feeling, that many villains will be wasted once again here. Another reason, why King‘s story is nowhere near as great as Knightfall, since the villains had great stories during Knightfall& werent wasted. more
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Jul 17, 2019
There are some cool ideas here, but also so many Tom King tropes. I don't like these tropes so it really hurts this book. I feel like his dialogue is just getting more and more ridiculous and Bendis-like. I feel like this issue ignores a lot of what came before just for the sake of having "cool" moments. Some of which could be explained, easily, but I don't think they will be. This run is built on moments, not cohesive storytelling. I feel like that is a problem many newer, aspiring writers have. I certainly do. I don't know how long King has been writing, but it seems he does as well. You want the big moments, because those are exciting and interesting to write, but you need the in between moments. Those are what make your story truly work
. I feel like that's a big part of why I don't really care about anything that happens in this issue. This wasn't the worst issue, but I can't say I'm excited for the next one. I'm just left with a feeling of apathy. more
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Jul 17, 2019
Dropped.
I’m not wasting my money on a book with terrible dialogue and half baked ideas, incomplete story telling and changing character motivations. I’d rather spend my money on an indie book. I wish I picked up Kelly sue’s aquman when she started and dropped this then.
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Jul 19, 2019
What fresh hell is this?
What relationship does this have to #74? Two Batmen entered, one left. Now one is in the Batcave, the other is wandering around the Himalayas again...while Catwoman just happens to be there. It's as if #74 (and the "home on the range" issue) didn't matter. Were they a dream?
I get King's scene setting with Bane running Gotham, but there is zero reaction from rest of universe. Would one not think that a single spandex hero would be concerned about the happenings in Gotham?
Truthfully, I can actually get behind the basic premise of Bane running Gotham using Psycho Pirate to keep everyone in line, but it literally has zero connection to the preceding arc. That's just bad writing.
And of course we have
to endure Tom King Story Hour.
At least the artist had fun with his reimagined GCPD.
5.0/10 on the merits of the single issue taken in a vacuum, 3.0/10 in context of prior issues. more
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Aug 16, 2019
Neat idea, sometimes let down by the writing.
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Jul 17, 2019
You know, I love elseworlds. They aren't restricted by strict continuity rules of the main DC universe. What stops Superman's capsule from landing in CCCP? Or Joker going sane and becoming a politician, backed by one Harley and fought by another? Or Flash going back in time to save his mom, creating a dystopian world where Atlanteans and Amazons went to war with each other, and that war lead the world to the brink of absolute destruction?
King flirted with elseworlds before, just to mention the dystopian Gotham Booster Gold saw in this run. This time he introduced us to yet another weird "bad" continuity, simultaneously adding random parts with Bruce and Gotham Girl. What story he's trying to tell us exactly, I don't know. Not only because
the comic is super convoluted, but because it probably is constructed this way, so we don't know what's going on til the very end.
I'm conflicted on this one, because it's so... random and disorganized. If anything, this should have been a part of the (failed) Knightmares arc, since it really feels like a fever dream.
So, what's next? I guess Batman impregnates Selina, and gets killed by Gotham Girl, since these two plot points remain unresolved. Other than that, I have no clue. I just want King to finish his run and step down. Just go away and make some space for a new writer who hopefully understands Batman as a character. more
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Jul 17, 2019
I do not understand how people are giving this (and other books) 10/10. That is a perfect score. You are saying this book is perfect and there were no faults. Yet these people give 10s almost every book they review. It is a joke!!
This book was the usual Tom King nonsense. No build up, big wow moments that are supposed to make you think its good, pretentious dialogue, the usual random, usually, stolen stories that have nothing to do with anything, and characters that act nothing like the characters they are supposed to be.
I can not wait to enjoy Batman again when King is gone.
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Jul 17, 2019
Oh brother. King's Gotham is just silly. It's up is down wrong is right, evil is good. And that's just silly. We learn that Thomas Wayne is Batman and uses Gotham Girl to enforce things. Hugo Strange is the commissioner and Joker and Riddler are cops. Psycho Pirate "cures" the insane and we see him do that with Two-Face.
Meanwhile we see a traveler walk in the snowy mountains being getting narration RIPPED OFF from the Tom Hanks movie "Charlie Wilson's War." It's a mess. We still get King's pet love of Batman insisting He and Selina met on a boat, and Selina saying they met on the streets.
Does Thomas Wayne have the ability to separate Gotham from the rest of the Justice League. In the old days when kids would stay off my lawn, team-u
ps were a thing, but each DC title was really its own little world. And that worked because of the social contract between writers and readers.
Sure Superman or Flash could solve all of Batman's problems by helping capture villain of the week. But the book is a Batman one, so we assume Superman or the Flash are off in their books doing their thing and don't thing too hard about how it really would be logical for Batman to call for Super help all the time.
But in this new much more interconnected world of comics, all the other DC heroes are going to ignore the fact that Gotham is being run by villains who have multiple murders on their rap sheets. I don't care if Psycho Pirate made them sane, that's just a bridge too far.
Also having the Joker be "curable" by Psycho Pirate really diminishes the Joker. He is mysterious and unknowable. Having him have an actual mental illness is just . . . degrading to the character.
And stop having Bane boast about how he broke the Bat and there's no way the Bat will come back, yep the Bat is broken and I am putting my fingers in my ears and shouting LAH, LAH, LAH I can't hear yo.
The breaking of the Bat with Bane has already been done. You can buy the trades in your local book store. It's not like this arc has been forgotten. King you are just walking on ground that's been well tread on.
What bothers me is that King really does think this is original great stuff. He's ripping off previous arcs and Charlie Wilson's War and he thinks he's the greatest thing since Stan Lee.
Meanwhile things like actual plot, actual pacing and actual characterization suffer. The villains are cardboard, the secondary players are ignored and the romance between Bruce and Selina is told and not shown. AARRGGHH.
Or I could be wrong. more
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Jul 18, 2019
THE GOOD:
-Hey! Mitch Gerads is here! I didn't know that! Tony Daniel's art was good, but in my opinion Gerads' was superior in its atmosphere, truly capturing the "apocalyptic" Gotham this issue is trying to sell. Plus he is not only a fantastic penciller, but a damn good color artist.
-This wasn't as bad as the last few issues.
THE BAD:
-There is no way on this planet that Tom: King of Filler deserves a an extra sized $4.99 issue.
-This comic is supposed to be about the villains taking over Gotham, which is a fun concept, yet it's kind of ruined by the villains having absolutely no personality whatsoever.
-Wow. I wasn't expecting this comic to give me so many flashbacks to my freshman year of high school. There was t
hat reference to the Trojan War, which I learned a lot about in English. Then that story with the farmer and the horse and his son, which I remember my math teacher telling me for whatever reason. Not sure why I'm talking so much about this, not that anyone cares. And before all the commenters start telling me I'm a terrible reviewer or whatever, the reason this is in the bad section is because Tom King needs to stop using fables and whatnot in place of actual story.
-Ugh. More Gotham Girl.
-I DON'T CARE IF IT WAS THE BOAT OR THE GODDAMN STREET! AND STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME CARE!
-At least the other Luthor pages in the Villain of the Week "tie-ins" were just that. One page. Yet Tom King had to devote a whole 8-page backup story to a conversation between Luthor and Bane. more
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Jul 17, 2019
more random, all-over-the-place, decompressed, pseudo intellectual gibberish.
nothing was properly set up. we are just thrust into Gotham being run by villains with Flashpoint Batman in charge of Wayne Manor and the Bat-cave.
meanwhile Bruce is marching out in a snow blizzard in some undefined mountains. where? why? who knows? Bruce is asking for someone called 'The Memory of the Mountain', but gets his throat slashed and his head bashed with a crowbar by two nobody punks. then all the sudden Catwoman is there, just because.
Bane gives a speech about how the Justice League won't come in and stop his havoc on Gotham because he'll threaten innocents. yeah. i totally buy that . . . . NOT! and the reason Bane even wants Gotham? who k
nows?
this is just beyond pretentious and dumb.
at least the Tony Daniel portion of art was nice, and we no longer have to worry about this going on till issue 100. hopefully DC will renumber this series after #85. just start fresh. more
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Jul 17, 2019
What the hell did I just read? How long since the last issue? Why was Catwoman on the mountain? I get everyone is probably being controlled by Psycho Pirate but it’s still stupid. Nobody sounds right which I’m sure will be chalked up to being controlled but that only changes their emotions, not their entire personalities. What was with the stupid ass story of the man walking up the mountain? I guess Thomas just has utter contempt for his son and treats his old pal Alfred like shit as well. This was complete and utter bullshit. So standard King writing. I hate it with a fiery passion at this point. It never gets better because King can’t seem to write a coherent story. How anyone could claim this is a 10/10 perfect comic is beyond
me. At what point do you realize you’re just a sycophantic fanboy? King cannot get off this soon enough. Hell, I hope he goes to write for Tv and leaves comics altogether. more
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Jul 17, 2019
THE ART IS FABULOUS.
I mean really, the art is good but this is the only score I can give to this issue because of the defect harms me so much.
I have never seen a batman story not logical as this and it seems the wtitter DO NOT has the ability to write a hero like batman. This superhero IS A DETECTIVE and I haven't seen deductive reasoning or direct inference for a lonnnnnnng time. A good story need to tell people the reason and results IN ONE PLOT, not just shipping his own cancer from the beginning to the end to all the readers who just want to see exellenct stories of a DETECTIVE, or not just writting sloppy, moody, sickly fables, fairy tales or conceit instead a brilliant man.
To be true, I don't need a comic writer to teach m
e philosophy， psychology， criminology or sociology, who is not professional at all. What I need is just wonderful stories. The whole story is far more to be called a "story", rather than a fanfiction on AO3 to express the writer's own mental illness. The failure on HIC and Batman series has already showed that this one is not capable for a superhero who has his own character established on issues already published for decades, and I will never spend my money and time wasting on this again.
Abobe all, the writer lack of literary attainments and all the depth he showed just a werid remix of NML, TDKR and other classic bat-comics. It will be good for batman to remove this writer from the team, and I will be back at that moment. more
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Jul 17, 2019
I can't say this enough....I can't wait for DC to get Tom King off of Batman!
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