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Batman: Eternal, Volume 2
Dustin Nguyen, Davide Furnò, Kyle Higgins, Javier Garrón, Simon Coleby, Juan Ferreyra, Jason Fabok, Scott Snyder, Felix Ruiz, R.M. Guéra, Ray Fawkes, Fernando Pasarín, Jorge Lucas, John Layman, Fernando Blanco, Andy Clarke, Andrea Mutti, Alvaro Martinez, James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley, Paolo Armitano
3.76 AVERAGE
40 reviews for:
Batman: Eternal, Volume 2
Dustin Nguyen, Davide Furnò, Kyle Higgins, Javier Garrón, Simon Coleby, Juan Ferreyra, Jason Fabok, Scott Snyder, Felix Ruiz, R.M. Guéra, Ray Fawkes, Fernando Pasarín, Jorge Lucas, John Layman, Fernando Blanco, Andy Clarke, Andrea Mutti, Alvaro Martinez, James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley, Paolo Armitano
3.76 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There’s a lot to like about Batman Eternal vol. 2. There’s non-stop action, great characters, a crazily convoluted plot that gets better by the page turn, and spectacular events and revelations. So much happens in this volume that there are moments when I forgot how we got someplace. Events from the first volume are resolved, new details are introduced and one heck of a cliffhanger marks the end to a crazy busy book.
My one problem is that there are a couple of moments for a chunk of the first half where the art is poorly drawn – faces often seem like an afterthought. It might have been a bigger problem, but we get some pretty epic spreads and all the “important” scenes are always drawn with care.
My one problem is that there are a couple of moments for a chunk of the first half where the art is poorly drawn – faces often seem like an afterthought. It might have been a bigger problem, but we get some pretty epic spreads and all the “important” scenes are always drawn with care.
I do like this volume but I expected a little more after the first one. It feels a bit like a rip-off of Zero Year, which Snyder also spearheaded (a policeman even says something to the effect of, "This is just like Zero Year!" at one point.) Corrigan's appearance in the last volume was fascinating but this time his plot point was merely concluded (albeit in a way that was SUPER important but not really.) Action-packed and worth a read but not nearly as enrapturing as some of Snyder's other Batman stuff.
This line of the Batman's story is getting more complicated and fascinated, but sometimes I have a little bit of difficulty in following it. Anyway good story and nice illustrations.
Questa linea della storia di Batman sta diventando un po' difficile per me da seguire, ma é interessante, comunque bella storia e bei disegni.
THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND DC ENTERTAINMENTS FOR THE PREVIEW!
Questa linea della storia di Batman sta diventando un po' difficile per me da seguire, ma é interessante, comunque bella storia e bei disegni.
THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND DC ENTERTAINMENTS FOR THE PREVIEW!
oh. my. god! I never thought I'd be so invested in a Batman comic like this, my only complaint is how they really screwed over Batwing but here's to hoping he gets shown out later.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
I got into this weekly series because of Scott Snyder (the chief writer and mastermind of all the great Batman comics of the past 4+ years) and Harper Row (badass working class sister who's developing into a great hero in the Bat-family).
Kudos to the artists for keeping the quality so consistent through such a complex story arc week after week. It's the script writers who couldn't keep up the consistency of tone in this volume. Specifically one writer stands out as having ruined an otherwise great story: Tim Seeley. I don't know who this guy is, but he makes Ray Fawkes' portions look great by comparison. The story-plotting/scripting/co-advisor junior assistant team for this series is Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV at the top, Ray Fawkes and Kyle Higgins doing an admirable job of both dark and more light-hearted moments throughout what is one of the most intricate Batman stories I've ever read. There are SO many threads to this plot all happening at once that to pull it off was truly a feat - and on a WEEKLY deadline! But then there's Tim Seeley, whose issues read like the Scooby Doo interlude in Batman Begins.
Whole pages of good artist talent are wasted so Seeley can slowly set up a corny joke, everyone's voice becomes that of Jay Leno, looking at the reader and squeaking out, "Ya git it?! See? Cuz...It's funny!"
Thankfully Seeley gets pulled after a few issues and Fawkes/Higgins, with direction from Snyder/Tynion pull it together for the closing act of this dense volume.
One final quibble I forgot to mention in my review of Vol. 1, which carries over into this one: The plot arc about Gordon getting thrown in jail hinges upon one moment, wherein he fires a single bullet past a hired villain, and that bullet hits an electrical panel, causing a subway train to be unable to brake, resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives. Even Batman points out early on that frying that control panel shouldn't have been enough to cause the tragedy, but nobody ever looks further at that point. So they sweep this unlikely plot point under the rug and never look back for the sake of the bigger picture. But seriously, you can't just smash a visible control panel at pedestrian level on a subway platform and make trains crash into one another like that! Gordon was framed and (at least in these 2 volumes) we never get to see the World's Greatest Detective put the pieces together of the incident itself - more just making excuses and looking at the red herrings strewn about the scene.
Kudos to the artists for keeping the quality so consistent through such a complex story arc week after week. It's the script writers who couldn't keep up the consistency of tone in this volume. Specifically one writer stands out as having ruined an otherwise great story: Tim Seeley. I don't know who this guy is, but he makes Ray Fawkes' portions look great by comparison. The story-plotting/scripting/co-advisor junior assistant team for this series is Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV at the top, Ray Fawkes and Kyle Higgins doing an admirable job of both dark and more light-hearted moments throughout what is one of the most intricate Batman stories I've ever read. There are SO many threads to this plot all happening at once that to pull it off was truly a feat - and on a WEEKLY deadline! But then there's Tim Seeley, whose issues read like the Scooby Doo interlude in Batman Begins.
Whole pages of good artist talent are wasted so Seeley can slowly set up a corny joke, everyone's voice becomes that of Jay Leno, looking at the reader and squeaking out, "Ya git it?! See? Cuz...It's funny!"
Thankfully Seeley gets pulled after a few issues and Fawkes/Higgins, with direction from Snyder/Tynion pull it together for the closing act of this dense volume.
One final quibble I forgot to mention in my review of Vol. 1, which carries over into this one: The plot arc about Gordon getting thrown in jail hinges upon one moment, wherein he fires a single bullet past a hired villain, and that bullet hits an electrical panel, causing a subway train to be unable to brake, resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives. Even Batman points out early on that frying that control panel shouldn't have been enough to cause the tragedy, but nobody ever looks further at that point. So they sweep this unlikely plot point under the rug and never look back for the sake of the bigger picture. But seriously, you can't just smash a visible control panel at pedestrian level on a subway platform and make trains crash into one another like that! Gordon was framed and (at least in these 2 volumes) we never get to see the World's Greatest Detective put the pieces together of the incident itself - more just making excuses and looking at the red herrings strewn about the scene.