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Batman (2025) (Single Issues)
Batman (2025-) #10
Kindle Edition
Published June 3, 2026
About the author
Matt Fraction
1,236 books1,891 followers"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
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June 5, 2026
This ties into and connects with the Barbara Gordon series really well. Loving this story arc and how Batman always has the upper hand. Can never count him out.
June 6, 2026
Just plain fun. After Wayne Manor gets blown up and Operation Peregrine hammers the Bat-Family, Vandal Savage is all over the media celebrating like he’s already won. Fraction lets him enjoy that moment just long enough before pulling the rug out in the most satisfying way possible. What I love most about this issue is how Fraction writes Bruce — calm, collected, always thinking several steps ahead, completely unfazed by the people trying to induce fear or anxiety around him. A board meeting at Wayne Enterprises of all things becomes the spark that shifts his perspective and then Batman gives Gotham a message it won’t forget. Jiménez is doing something genuinely inventive with his panel design here too — cellphone-style framing, pages full of panels with almost no dialogue, letting the art carry everything. It works beautifully. This run just keeps delivering. 4.5⭐️
June 14, 2026
The no dialogue page with Batman and Catwoman was ART.
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June 18, 2026i love barbara’s relationship with the bat family, they are so precious!!
June 5, 2026
This is a rare issue of this series that doesn't really feel like an issue unto itself. It's much more a recap and connecting of dots from various parts of the run so far. While that might make it feel like a good jumping on point for new readers, I found it a little alienating (Minotaur) and think this would be the same for people unaware of the Joker's current status. I would encourage new/lapsed readers not to start with this issue but with #9 which has a lot of action and gives a better feel for how dynamic this series is.
The art by Jimenez is great although he isn't given any showstopping action sequences that I'm almost used to from him by now.
If anything this book may suffer from it's usual greatness. This isn't a bad issue at all but it is weak in comparison to the outstanding issues of the run so far.
Overall impression = 3/5
Writing = 3/5
Art = 4/5
Will I read the next issue? yes
Wait for the trade collection? this issue is very much an in-between part of a bigger tale so could read better in trade format.
Did I need to read previous issues/series? Yes, this has mentions of Minotaur, fishbowl Joker, and recent attacks on the Bat family, so ideally the whole series or at least #9
Will I read previous issues I need to read the Minotaur intro issue at some point.
The art by Jimenez is great although he isn't given any showstopping action sequences that I'm almost used to from him by now.
If anything this book may suffer from it's usual greatness. This isn't a bad issue at all but it is weak in comparison to the outstanding issues of the run so far.
Overall impression = 3/5
Writing = 3/5
Art = 4/5
Will I read the next issue? yes
Wait for the trade collection? this issue is very much an in-between part of a bigger tale so could read better in trade format.
Did I need to read previous issues/series? Yes, this has mentions of Minotaur, fishbowl Joker, and recent attacks on the Bat family, so ideally the whole series or at least #9
Will I read previous issues I need to read the Minotaur intro issue at some point.
June 8, 2026
live laugh love the batfam
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June 11, 2026matt fraction if you screw annika zeller we’re gonna have words (seeing catwoman had me in shambles…)
June 7, 2026
This is such a batman power move show off to his extremes issue, and I love it! The cover alone has me hooked with how beautiful it is, but the issue itself was such a fun ride from the chaos last issue while continuing to bread crumb us along for the Minotaur plot line which I desperately want more of. But one thing I am also desperate to read now that this issue reveals right at the start…is the existence of a bat family group chat! Seeing Stephen, Damian, and Duke casually texting each other is the best, made even more hilarious when Damian mentions blowing up Wayne Manor as I only found out AFTER the last issue that it was currently under the ownership of Vandal Savage. Absolutely hilarious and as he laughs and stares at the fire…he seems to think so too. I wonder if some deep cave man side of him was just enjoying seeing fire. But of course the next day Vandal hits the news circuit to talk about how successful they were last night with their seven (keep that number in mind) raids. They are now implementing a cash reward for any info that can bring members of be bat family in. “Rat out the bat.” But as vandal goes behind closed doors he orders the recovery of any data off the seized drives being the top priority, and to get a makeup of the acids used to destroy what they couldn’t get. And of course make sure to throw Barbara Gordon into supermax…this said as Vandal passes the break room where he stares down Jim Gordon…as he stares right back to the point of impressing Vandal.
But things take a turn I was not expecting at all with the immediately reveal of the Minotaur’s face! It’s been a minute but do you remember the cost of entry to the Minotaur’s group? It was of course a loved one, and we now jump over to Little Tokyo where Tozuki is holding a private service for that family member as the Minotaur, without his helmet, walks right in to offers gift. Tozuki wanes to kill him on the spot and even lashes out and shoves a gun in his face…but due to the loss, the Minotaur decided to look past this “unsightly display of emotion” to show the man his gift…glasses with blood splattered on them. The Minotaur proceeds to explain that these glasses once belonged to Hugo strange. Last night Hugo and his monster men declared war on Tozuki Petrochemicals for the failure of taking out Doctor Zeller…but in Torus if someone declares war on one of them then they declare war on all. Before Hugo could even make a move, armed guards stormed his lab and put down his monster men…and Hugo. Now I’m not going to believe he is dead until I see the very last atom of Hugo Strange go up in smoke, but seeing those bullets riddle through him is quite convincing.
This is a busy morning, where we also find Bruce Wayne in a board meeting surrounded by armed guards to protect him after the Zeller incident. It’s not like he was the target nor that he needs it, but after the assassination attempt Dr Zeller has filed paperwork to shut her project down. This comes as a surprise to Bruce, but it opens the door for one of his scumbag board members to once again suggest the reallocation of the Titanographene she was using towards military applications instead. He hands Bruce a tablet with projections on the money they could make…and Bruce looks at it for barely a moment before throwing it against the wall. The man. Evan’s to hell at him about this being a public company and their duty to make profit for the shareholders and how he can’t wave off billions in revenue like a cheap bottle of wine…but Bruce only laughs and corrects him that he drinks champagne. The man continued to yammer on as Bruce stopped focusing to the point we see him back in his cave, with his eyeliner on, once again talking to Alfred inside his mind…I live for the day of that intervention. But that scumbag actually got Bruce on the right track for this Minotaur situation as the two pillars of any criminal empire are money and blood. “And if you don’t have one, you better have a whole lot of the other.” Blood is flash and loud and brings attention like batman…but money is respectable and legal and with enough you can do anything. As batman he focuses on the violence and chaos of crime, but it’s Bruce who thinks about the money. Suddenly it all clicks, this Minotaur has stayed invisible because he didn’t treat Gotham like turf to seize but as an asset to acquire…they are dealing with a capitalist. But the time for forensic accounting must come later, as the current focus is still vandal savage as he has been spending the last 12 hours in front of every camera declaring batman is over…it’s time to let Gotham know he isn’t going anywhere.
Batman moves like a spectre, in one part of the city taking down a group of robbers to another section of the city dealing with a hostage crisis in mere moments. All the while Vandal is still on the news tour declaring the end of batman because they took down 7…ahem…24…ahem…I mean 44 of course…of his bases. With every success from batman it seems Vandal gets a bit tighter in the nether regions. Batman even takes a moment out of his busy night to acknowledge Catwoman as the two go their separate ways into the night…always seeming to find each other at some point. The GCPD forensics lab is hard at work pulling data from the one driver Ben could get running…only for the power to go out as the drive sees to burst. Suddenly the bat family group chat gets a message, it’s a prerecorded one from Barbara before she was captured. She explains that if they are seeing this the plan worked and she is in police custody just as they hoped. She asks them to trust the plan as tonight is the night they beat vandal…he just doesn’t know it yet. I find it hilarious that when Vandal is basically by himself and his phone stops working he refers to it as “infernal wads of light and sorcery.” Which is just so on brand for this old ass character. But as it turns out, everywhere that batman went tonight he placed a small device so that all of them can be activated at the same time to push forward one message…”batman always wins.” Suddenly the boxes open all over the city as small drones fly out and fill up the night sky to reveal one gigantic bat signal 2.0 made up of 3,000 autonomous drones…a bright reminder to the city that the bat family is still here!! AHAHAHA, that’s what I’m talking about!!
But things take a turn I was not expecting at all with the immediately reveal of the Minotaur’s face! It’s been a minute but do you remember the cost of entry to the Minotaur’s group? It was of course a loved one, and we now jump over to Little Tokyo where Tozuki is holding a private service for that family member as the Minotaur, without his helmet, walks right in to offers gift. Tozuki wanes to kill him on the spot and even lashes out and shoves a gun in his face…but due to the loss, the Minotaur decided to look past this “unsightly display of emotion” to show the man his gift…glasses with blood splattered on them. The Minotaur proceeds to explain that these glasses once belonged to Hugo strange. Last night Hugo and his monster men declared war on Tozuki Petrochemicals for the failure of taking out Doctor Zeller…but in Torus if someone declares war on one of them then they declare war on all. Before Hugo could even make a move, armed guards stormed his lab and put down his monster men…and Hugo. Now I’m not going to believe he is dead until I see the very last atom of Hugo Strange go up in smoke, but seeing those bullets riddle through him is quite convincing.
This is a busy morning, where we also find Bruce Wayne in a board meeting surrounded by armed guards to protect him after the Zeller incident. It’s not like he was the target nor that he needs it, but after the assassination attempt Dr Zeller has filed paperwork to shut her project down. This comes as a surprise to Bruce, but it opens the door for one of his scumbag board members to once again suggest the reallocation of the Titanographene she was using towards military applications instead. He hands Bruce a tablet with projections on the money they could make…and Bruce looks at it for barely a moment before throwing it against the wall. The man. Evan’s to hell at him about this being a public company and their duty to make profit for the shareholders and how he can’t wave off billions in revenue like a cheap bottle of wine…but Bruce only laughs and corrects him that he drinks champagne. The man continued to yammer on as Bruce stopped focusing to the point we see him back in his cave, with his eyeliner on, once again talking to Alfred inside his mind…I live for the day of that intervention. But that scumbag actually got Bruce on the right track for this Minotaur situation as the two pillars of any criminal empire are money and blood. “And if you don’t have one, you better have a whole lot of the other.” Blood is flash and loud and brings attention like batman…but money is respectable and legal and with enough you can do anything. As batman he focuses on the violence and chaos of crime, but it’s Bruce who thinks about the money. Suddenly it all clicks, this Minotaur has stayed invisible because he didn’t treat Gotham like turf to seize but as an asset to acquire…they are dealing with a capitalist. But the time for forensic accounting must come later, as the current focus is still vandal savage as he has been spending the last 12 hours in front of every camera declaring batman is over…it’s time to let Gotham know he isn’t going anywhere.
Batman moves like a spectre, in one part of the city taking down a group of robbers to another section of the city dealing with a hostage crisis in mere moments. All the while Vandal is still on the news tour declaring the end of batman because they took down 7…ahem…24…ahem…I mean 44 of course…of his bases. With every success from batman it seems Vandal gets a bit tighter in the nether regions. Batman even takes a moment out of his busy night to acknowledge Catwoman as the two go their separate ways into the night…always seeming to find each other at some point. The GCPD forensics lab is hard at work pulling data from the one driver Ben could get running…only for the power to go out as the drive sees to burst. Suddenly the bat family group chat gets a message, it’s a prerecorded one from Barbara before she was captured. She explains that if they are seeing this the plan worked and she is in police custody just as they hoped. She asks them to trust the plan as tonight is the night they beat vandal…he just doesn’t know it yet. I find it hilarious that when Vandal is basically by himself and his phone stops working he refers to it as “infernal wads of light and sorcery.” Which is just so on brand for this old ass character. But as it turns out, everywhere that batman went tonight he placed a small device so that all of them can be activated at the same time to push forward one message…”batman always wins.” Suddenly the boxes open all over the city as small drones fly out and fill up the night sky to reveal one gigantic bat signal 2.0 made up of 3,000 autonomous drones…a bright reminder to the city that the bat family is still here!! AHAHAHA, that’s what I’m talking about!!
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June 4, 2026
Lil bit of a messy issue dealing with the fallout of Babs' capture, but some really lovely moments wrapped up in a hopeful ending.
There are so many different elements that have been brought up over the course of the past ten issues, and not much payoff with regards to any of them yet, but I'm excited to see more of Dr Zeller and the Joker, as well as the Minotaur. On the other hand, I'm curious as to how the Tozuki-san side plot will fit into the story as a whole. I forgot all about his involvement from issues 4 and 6 for a hot second. In any case, this issue and the previous one appear to be more Bat-family centric issues, which I always love, but the Catwoman cameo (!!!!) in this issue really excited me. I'd love to see her play a larger role in this series down the line.
Also, Jorge Jiménez is finally back on interiors, and as much as I liked Ryan Sook's art, this is such a welcome return! He draws the most adorable Steph.
There are so many different elements that have been brought up over the course of the past ten issues, and not much payoff with regards to any of them yet, but I'm excited to see more of Dr Zeller and the Joker, as well as the Minotaur. On the other hand, I'm curious as to how the Tozuki-san side plot will fit into the story as a whole. I forgot all about his involvement from issues 4 and 6 for a hot second. In any case, this issue and the previous one appear to be more Bat-family centric issues, which I always love, but the Catwoman cameo (!!!!) in this issue really excited me. I'd love to see her play a larger role in this series down the line.
Also, Jorge Jiménez is finally back on interiors, and as much as I liked Ryan Sook's art, this is such a welcome return! He draws the most adorable Steph.
June 9, 2026
I continue to really enjoy this run. It feels like we get a little taste of everything that makes Batman such a compelling character. Seeing him embrace the underdog role with Vandal bearing down on him has been refreshing, as it gives opportunities for Bruce to show what makes him one of the best there is at what he does.
That said, the several loose narrative threads are starting to wear a bit. I wish we'd get to focus more on one of Vandal, the Minotaur, or Zeller instead of bouncing all around. In some ways this issue felt like it was doing its best to corral these conflicts and keep them fresh in readers' minds, but it comes off as a bit messy.
Despite those concerns, Fraction's writing is still engaging and Jimenez's art remains gorgeous. This run has firmly gotten me into collecting single issues, and I'm grateful for that. It's an exciting thing to follow month after month.
That said, the several loose narrative threads are starting to wear a bit. I wish we'd get to focus more on one of Vandal, the Minotaur, or Zeller instead of bouncing all around. In some ways this issue felt like it was doing its best to corral these conflicts and keep them fresh in readers' minds, but it comes off as a bit messy.
Despite those concerns, Fraction's writing is still engaging and Jimenez's art remains gorgeous. This run has firmly gotten me into collecting single issues, and I'm grateful for that. It's an exciting thing to follow month after month.
June 4, 2026
Batman 10: Maravilloso número. Me ha gustado mucho el mensaje de Bárbara Gordon de esperanza, de que aunque no lo crean, ellos van a ganar. Ese mensaje de que crean y busquen la luz. Frente a la oscuridad de las acciones de Salvage está la Batfamilia. Y qué buen retrato hace de Oracle. Estoy disfrutando mucho de la escritura de Fraction. No sólo escribe bien a Bruce y lo humaniza, también da mucha luz y presencia a la Batfamilia. Bruce usa la IA para recordarnos cuánto extraña a Alfred y por eso lo trae de vuelta así. Y el retrato de Bárbara, qué preciosidad de mensaje y qué inteligente la retrata.
June 8, 2026
Fraction explores the aftermath of the Bat-Family’s defeat, the destruction of Wayne Manor, and Barbara Gordon’s imprisonment. Jorge Jiménez’s artwork is outstanding throughout, balancing quiet character moments with explosive action and giving the book a cinematic feel. The partnership between Fraction and Jiménez continues to be one of the strongest aspects of this run.
June 11, 2026
I LOVE STORIES ABOUT HOPE!!!
They hit so much harder when they truly reflect how hard it is to continue feeling hopeful in a world where billionaires/capitalists and corporations are calling a lot of the big shots. But these stories, these HUMAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS, are a beacon of “I see you” and “together we can do something”.
This Batman run is truly so so special to me.
They hit so much harder when they truly reflect how hard it is to continue feeling hopeful in a world where billionaires/capitalists and corporations are calling a lot of the big shots. But these stories, these HUMAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS, are a beacon of “I see you” and “together we can do something”.
This Batman run is truly so so special to me.
June 5, 2026
Nice turning point issue that wraps up some loose ends and sets things up for the next bit of the story. Plus, there’s just some fun sequences of Batman doing Batman stuff, which shows off Jiménez’s art. Plus plus, digital forensics in action!
June 17, 2026
Absolute universe aside, DC are killing it between this and Barbra Gordon: Breakout alone. Fast paced story telling, issues are much more hit than miss, theres only been one miss in this run so far. and Matt Fraction has a certain charm to drip in moments of levity into the story.
June 3, 2026
Batman ALWAYS wins.
June 4, 2026
Bat Fam always wins!!!!
June 4, 2026
Batman ALWAYS wins.
(Except for when he doesn’t but we don’t need to dwell on those times)
(Except for when he doesn’t but we don’t need to dwell on those times)
June 4, 2026
Dealing with the Aftermath of the capture of Barbara.
Catwoman cameo.
Catwoman cameo.
June 5, 2026
This story just gets better and finally all of the Gotham Titles are on the same overall story of Vandal Savage taking over Gotham GCPD.
June 5, 2026
Hey no fair I’m not supposed to be out here crying over an issue of BATMAN
June 5, 2026
3.5
A litte rushed.
A litte rushed.
June 5, 2026
More Batman goodness. This is a very consistent series.
June 5, 2026
Batman says: Trust the plan.
June 6, 2026
4.5 | Batman being Batman doing Batman things. What else is better?
Last page is a heater
Last page is a heater
June 7, 2026
Catwoman!!!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 8, 2026
The ending does give a vibe of “I’m back”
June 13, 2026
Let him cook
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