Batman Incorporated #5

I feel like this story has been slept on from the public eye. It is such a fantastic story that if you are looking for something that is exciting and new yet familiar, this is the series I would 100% recommend to anyone, especially if you are a Batman fan. Read Full Review

Five issues was a fairly tight arc to tell this opening story and the teased next story should be just as interesting. This seems like a book that gets it right with a dialed in creative team doing all they can to make it stand out in a crowded field of Bat Family titles. So far, the results have been very encouraging. Read Full Review

This has been an entertaining, pulpy comic with a ton of Hong Kong-inspired action scenes and countless rogue Batmen across the globe, but it also has some very interesting and thorny issues. Read Full Review

Timms creates some dynamic and beautifully detailed art throughout the issue. I love the action and the look of the world. Read Full Review

At its core, Batman Incorporated certainly is not a bad book, with this finale of its first arc culminating in an emotional, well-executed, and action-packed context. Read Full Review

Batman Incorporated #5 gave us a little bit messy and also too convenient end to this series' first chapter. I wonder if we'll return to these events later in the run. Read Full Review

The story arc is reaching its end, and each comic is getting better and revealing more information that we didn't know beforethe perfect reason to get you hooked and looking forward to the next issue. Read Full Review

Phantom-One is a brat with a dumb name and an even sillier gang of friends. For a book called Batman Incorporated, readers rarely get a chance to get to know them better. As a Ghost-Maker comic, it does succeed in giving Khoa some much needed self-awareness. Even though my overall hopes for the book haven't come through, there is a lot to salvage. The art is fine in this particular issue, and the team came out more bonded in the end. I honestly didn't have much of a good time through a majority of the books, but the finale feels like growth. Then again, it's hard to keep optimistic knowing that Brisson is following this up with a bunch of clowns. Read Full Review

Screaming Enigma

Apr 27, 2023

I don't know what happened here. I was really enjoying the main story with Ghost-Maker, Clownhunter, and Phantom-One, but this just didn't hit for me like the previous four issues. Not to say I didn't enjoy it, because I did, but it was just a bit of a step down for me. It doesn't help that I have a smaller amount of investment for a lot of the side characters in this book, which I'm not quite sure is the fault of Ed Brisson or the fault of DC for trying to pack all of these characters into one book and make them all focused on at once.