Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2023-) #8

Batman: The Brave and The Bold (2023)

by Guillem March, Fernando Pasarín (penciller), John Higgins (inker)

Guillem March’s gripping, white-knuckled “Back to Year One” Batman adventure concludes! In part two of Kyle Starks and Fernando Pasarin's "Wild Here Comes Trouble!", Wild Dog comes face to face with the new gang taking over the Quad Cities! Aquaman’s bare-knuckle mission takes him to…Gorilla City?! Gabriel Hardman’s undersea adventure continues!

Genres: Comics

70 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 26, 2023

About the author

Seudónimo del historietista español Guillermo March.

Reviews

[Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

4½⭐

That was the best of the series so far. Every story is actually super interesting, with great art. The only let down (for me) was the final black and white story.
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Pygmalion: The final piece of this story and it's seriously one of my favourite little Batman stories in a long time. It's super sweet, and it's one of those stories that stuck with me hours after reading it. I highly recommend reading this! 5⭐

Wild Dog: Who knew I'd be enjoying a Wild Dog story in 2024? I'm enjoying it for what it is, tbh. And wouldn't be mad to see him appear in other books going forward, with this direction. 4⭐

Aquaman: I'm enjoying this. It's weird. (Aquaman, Apes and Dominators underwater. Yeah) But a good weird. And the art is incredible. 4½⭐

Angels in the Architecture (B&W): Ehh. Wasn't for me. Not saying it's bad, it's just very... I don't know... Screams like the writer being a middle aged man taking a real world concept from 5+ years ago and being late to the party when that fads over. 2⭐

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.8 stars

[Rob Vitagliano · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd give this a 3.75 or so, maybe close to a 4. The Pygmalion story didn't end like I thought it would, or honestly quite like I wanted it to, but it wasn't bad. I felt like adding preexisting villains took away from how unique this story was up to this point. I felt like it could have done without anyone familiar but Batman or Gordon.

The Mad Dog story is entertaining with very good art, but it's nothing memorable. I'd be curious to read more about him, but I'm not making an extra trip to the comic shop just for him.

The Aquaman story is interesting. I am not familiar with him or any of his characters at all, so I'm not sure what to make of this one. It's not bad, but again, not really memorable or what I'm here for to be honest.

The black and white story was... complicated. I think I got the gist of it, but it was far more convoluted than it needed to be.

Overall, this anthology series is losing my interest, but I have issue 9 already, so I'm going at least that far.

[Belfry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Batman: Pygmalion - 5
Wild Dog: Here Comes Trouble - 3.5
Aquaman: Communion - 3.5
Angels in the Architecture - 1

3.5 stars

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, I enjoyed the 2 batmans story, if you will. I think that had a good plot and I like how it resolved.

I am loving the Wild Dog story, at least this issue. That killed me, the entire diner scene with Alan. Worth it just for that.

Aquaman is fine. I'm not all that interested, but it's not so unreadable I've been skipping it.

I didn't get the batman black and white thing much. I feel maybe stupid, but I don't feel like the two things connected well, or obviously, and it was confusing which thing we were supposed to be paying attention to, sometimes.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some threads more interesting than others.