 Detective Comics #937 $2.99 Quantity
VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez 'RISE OF THE BATMEN' Chapter Four: Batman's found his way into the heart of the Colony, the mysterious new organization cutting its way through Gotham City! Unfortunately, now that he's in he may find there's no way out! Date Available: 07/27/2016
BONUS REVIEW by Kevin Healy
 I took the Rebirth 80 page special to be a refutation of the absence of heart and character that has been pervasive both in DC comics of late, and certainly in the DC movie universe. I believe many Rebirth titles have carried that theme forward. If you wanted to stretch (and I do), you could argue that the story line in Detective Comics exists show that if you're not actually a particular character (in this case, Batman), you only THINK you know what makes them tick, how to be them, or worse, how to be a better version of them. In the current DC movie universe, Batman is Batmurdererman. In Detective Comics, a team looking to improve the Batman's techniques leaves a trail of bodies Batmurderman style(hey, just like Batman v Superman!), showing clearly that they actually don't get what makes him work (hey, just like Batman v Superman!). I'd like to think that argument extends to the movies as well. There's always a price for thinking you know better. At the movies, its in the form of tiny box office ("Can we just give him a machine gun in the next movie?"-any Warner executive not named Geoff Johns). Here, it comes in the form of a broken arm (something Batman would actually do) in response to witnessing a pile of corpses presented to him as an upgrade on his methodology. Let's hope that Superman is a smiling heroic figure flying in a rich blue sky by the time he Lazaruses in 'Justice League'. For now, and more importantly, the comics seem to be putting the pieces back in their proper places. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Alvaro Martinez, Raul Fernandez 'RISE OF THE BATMEN' Chapter Four: Batman's found his way into the heart of the Colony, the mysterious new organization cutting its way through Gotham City! Unfortunately, now that he's in he may find there's no way out! Date Available: 07/27/2016
BONUS REVIEW by Kevin Healy
I took the Rebirth 80 page special to be a refutation of the absence of heart and character that has been pervasive both in DC comics of late, and certainly in the DC movie universe. I believe many Rebirth titles have carried that theme forward. If you wanted to stretch (and I do), you could argue that the story line in Detective Comics exists show that if you're not actually a particular character (in this case, Batman), you only THINK you know what makes them tick, how to be them, or worse, how to be a better version of them. In the current DC movie universe, Batman is Batmurdererman. In Detective Comics, a team looking to improve the Batman's techniques leaves a trail of bodies Batmurderman style(hey, just like Batman v Superman!), showing clearly that they actually don't get what makes him work (hey, just like Batman v Superman!). I'd like to think that argument extends to the movies as well. There's always a price for thinking you know better. At the movies, its in the form of tiny box office ("Can we just give him a machine gun in the next movie?"-any Warner executive not named Geoff Johns). Here, it comes in the form of a broken arm (something Batman would actually do) in response to witnessing a pile of corpses presented to him as an upgrade on his methodology. Let's hope that Superman is a smiling heroic figure flying in a rich blue sky by the time he Lazaruses in 'Justice League'. For now, and more importantly, the comics seem to be putting the pieces back in their proper places. I give it 8 out of 10 Grahams Customers who bought this, also bought:
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