Batman '89: Echoes #6

Batman 89: Echoes #6 closes the book on this dark fairytale with style, teeth, and surprising emotional resonance. Sam Hamm delivers a fittingly gothic finale that honors the Burton legacy while daring to evolve it. By blending psychological horror with timely media commentary and old-fashioned cape-and-cowl action, this finale feels like the true third act we never got in theaters. And if this is Michael Keatons Batmans final bow on the page, its a damn good one. Read Full Review

Harley winds up standing out as the key villain, while this version of Ra's sort of falls flat. But overall, this story has a lot going for it but winds up being somewhat undone by its own massive ambition. Read Full Review

Despite great art, Batman '89 Echoes #6 struggles to reach a satisfying conclusion for fans of the both the miniseries and the original Burton films. Read Full Review

Batman: Echoes #6 is a jumbled mess of an issue with beautiful art. It is a shame that the script does not let the art shine. A disappointing ending to a mini-series that also suffered massive delays. Read Full Review

Batman '89 Echoes #6 sadly continues the trend that this whole series has followed stuffing as many references as they can in the hopes that something will work out. Some of it does like the depiction of Harley, but most of it doesn't. Batman goes from the centerpiece to a sideshow attraction in what is meant to be a series focused on him (notice how he doesn't even get a mention in this review) as the series seemed determined to keep him out of the cowl and out of focus. In the end, it can be hard to tell whose story this is except maybe Sam Hamm's. Read Full Review

This was a hot mess. I did my best to summarize it, but it was so hard. Sometimes I was unclear about where, when, and why anything was happening. It's also been months since the last issue, and even reading over summaries of previous issues, I couldn't remember who some of the new characters were. Read Full Review

Jawnyblaze

Jul 10, 2025

Well the art was really nice. The writing and plot were just kinda all over the place though. I did enjoy reading it with the original movie actors' voices (for characters that were in it.) Other than drawing them to resemble the actors and one line from Catwoman about being held back, there wasn't much that really connected the characters or plot to the Burton movies though.