pickTom King and Mitch Gerads reunite to give us a more menacing version of the Riddler, as well as a more elaborate origin. Gerads deploys some really interesting designs, including some 1st-person POV panels, as well as security camera footage.
I made this quickly-crafted bookmark today 🦇💝...decorative tape, paper, and marker 🪄🔖😉.
This character qoute defines how my mom and I feel right now.
We're frightened FOR our county, state, & country. We are terrified FOR wildlife and Mother Nature. We are horrified FOR girls, Children, and women. We fear FOR our Californians, both born and immigrant. We are worried FOR our Indigenous Americans being mistakenly targeted by ICE.
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pickThis is a Batman at the start of his career story.
It follows on from another story but works as a standalone.
I was surprised by this one as it had a vampire theme to it and was surprisingly violent.
It's a Batman battles a vampire cult story, and I enjoyed it a lot.
so-soI thought I'd reread this since I liked the *idea* of Cassandra Cain. I feel her Batgirl design is unsexualised and batlike in a pretty neat way, but I don't love a lot of the art in this one, and it's hard to fully follow without context.
so-soThat was a LOT. Not entirely certain if this particular storyline continues after this book, but at least for now, I think I've had my fill of alternate worlds where Batman is in even rougher shape.
The multiverse, the look at Batman and the Joker, their psychology, remains interesting, but the emphasis on endless battle is exhausting. I'm glad to see Tim go looking, but the poor boy's still full of drama, 1/?
How crazy is my obsession with Batman?
When I first watched the TV commercial for this product, I immediately considered it perfect...for a mini Bat-Signal 😂.
🤔 🔦✨🦇✨ Wonder...😜👀.
#zeal4batman
so-soThe tour through different universes was exhilarating, but Batman's time in exile in another universe was pretty boring. The biggest problem is that back-up artist Mike Hawthorne's art just isn't very good.
pickOh yes. I love the vintage feel, the sense of going back to Batgirl's orgins now, in a way that obviously plays off lore that has developed over the years, e.g. the Oracle/Cassandra references, the hint of something with Dick, the ominous whisper in references to the Joker.
The writers and artists did a great job of presenting a recognizable character with a bit more youthful hubris and pep, 1/?
pickAaaarrggh cliffhanger! The only reason the writers and artists are forgiven is because I can get the next volume immediately from my library. Yet another benefit of reading backlist!
This was off the chain, just ridiculously improbable survival in action-packed scenarios, Brucie baby having officially planned TOO MUCH and yet too little, creating a Matryoshka doll of Batmans with various levels of advisable approaches to the criminal element, 1/?
so-soIssue 105 is drawn entirely from Nightwing's POV, which is a cool visual trick, but narratively, I found this whole underworld arc pretty low stakes.
