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Batman Beyond (2015)
Batman Beyond, Volume 3: Wired for Death
When Terry McGinnis died on a mission in the past, Tim Drake-the former Red Robin-was brought into the future to take up his mantle. Now, mentored by Commissioner Barbara Gordon, Tim has picked up where Terry left off in this futuristic Gotham City…and that includes bringing Terry’s little brother, Matt, onto the team.
But Tim picked a dangerous time to recruit a young ally. The electricity-manipulating criminal known as Rewire has been on a crime spree, stealing stronger and stronger batteries in an attempt to keep himself alive. There’s only one problem: the man who used to wear the Rewire suit has been found dead…so who’s this new Rewire?
As Tim, Barbara and Matt dig deeper into the mystery, they will expose secrets about Batman’s past…and set the stage for the next startling evolution of Batman Beyond!
Writer Dan Jurgens (SUPERMAN: LOIS AND CLARK), artist Bernard Chang (GREEN LANTERN CORPS) and colorist Marcelo Maiolo (GREEN LANTERN CORPS) take the world of the classic Batman Beyond animated series in a shocking new direction! Collects BATMAN BEYOND #12-16 and a sneak peek of BATMAN BEYOND: REBIRTH #1.
Collects: Batman Beyond #12-16 and Batman Beyond: Rebirth #1.
But Tim picked a dangerous time to recruit a young ally. The electricity-manipulating criminal known as Rewire has been on a crime spree, stealing stronger and stronger batteries in an attempt to keep himself alive. There’s only one problem: the man who used to wear the Rewire suit has been found dead…so who’s this new Rewire?
As Tim, Barbara and Matt dig deeper into the mystery, they will expose secrets about Batman’s past…and set the stage for the next startling evolution of Batman Beyond!
Writer Dan Jurgens (SUPERMAN: LOIS AND CLARK), artist Bernard Chang (GREEN LANTERN CORPS) and colorist Marcelo Maiolo (GREEN LANTERN CORPS) take the world of the classic Batman Beyond animated series in a shocking new direction! Collects BATMAN BEYOND #12-16 and a sneak peek of BATMAN BEYOND: REBIRTH #1.
Collects: Batman Beyond #12-16 and Batman Beyond: Rebirth #1.
136 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2017
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About the author
Dan Jurgens
2,245 books285 followersDan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for six years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995.
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August 30, 2025
(B+) 76% | Good
Notes: Flashback-focused, figments fuel familiar foes, its fairly farfetched fortuitous finish fixes framework for future fiction.
*Progress updates: Issues #12-14 ◦ Issues #15-16
Notes: Flashback-focused, figments fuel familiar foes, its fairly farfetched fortuitous finish fixes framework for future fiction.
*Progress updates: Issues #12-14 ◦ Issues #15-16
May 8, 2020
Basically the whole point of this is to reset Batman Beyond back to its original concept. This volume completes wiping the Brother Eye / Future's End nonsense from the DC universe. Tim Drake deserves better than his treatment in the nu52.
July 14, 2017
I was in need of a refresher. NOW I REMEMBER: Bruce turns out to be The Joker in the following issue!!!
The future can be a scary place!
The future can be a scary place!
June 7, 2018
Rollback is complete...sort of.
World: The art is solid, I still don't like the eyes since this series began but overall the art is nice. I love the look of Neo Gotham and strangely that's all we get now. World building continues it's rollback to pre 'Futures End' and it's pretty much complete except for the parts that they can't (Babs' age). There is little talk of Brother Eye now and the war torn world is forgotten, the riots of the outsiders and the Gothamites is strangely gone and all we have left is a rolled back world that is what it once was. Don't get me wrong, I like that we're back where I enjoyed the series the most, but this pretty much makes 'Futures End' pointless and that annoys (both because Futures End was pointless and because I liked exploring a post Brother Eye Mad Max like world).
Story: The story is solid, it's the completion of the rollback and putting Terry back in the suit. It's ends with Rebirth so you know where this book is going when I say rollback to Terry. It's an okay tale, the pacing is good, the action interesting. The world was pretty simple as this story was very contained to getting Terry back. I kinda wished we'd see more of the riots and the picking up the pieces post 'Futures End' but I don't think that's gonna happen, DC is slowly and quietly trying to make us forget it.
Characters: Drake is okay, so is Babs and Max and Terry. Nothing big happens here except getting it back to the way it was. Not a lot of depth in this area. I think DC was done with Drake stuck here and needed him back where he was so yeah just basic character work here.
The roll back is complete, not let's start telling some stories about the world!
Onward to the next book!
World: The art is solid, I still don't like the eyes since this series began but overall the art is nice. I love the look of Neo Gotham and strangely that's all we get now. World building continues it's rollback to pre 'Futures End' and it's pretty much complete except for the parts that they can't (Babs' age). There is little talk of Brother Eye now and the war torn world is forgotten, the riots of the outsiders and the Gothamites is strangely gone and all we have left is a rolled back world that is what it once was. Don't get me wrong, I like that we're back where I enjoyed the series the most, but this pretty much makes 'Futures End' pointless and that annoys (both because Futures End was pointless and because I liked exploring a post Brother Eye Mad Max like world).
Story: The story is solid, it's the completion of the rollback and putting Terry back in the suit. It's ends with Rebirth so you know where this book is going when I say rollback to Terry. It's an okay tale, the pacing is good, the action interesting. The world was pretty simple as this story was very contained to getting Terry back. I kinda wished we'd see more of the riots and the picking up the pieces post 'Futures End' but I don't think that's gonna happen, DC is slowly and quietly trying to make us forget it.
Characters: Drake is okay, so is Babs and Max and Terry. Nothing big happens here except getting it back to the way it was. Not a lot of depth in this area. I think DC was done with Drake stuck here and needed him back where he was so yeah just basic character work here.
The roll back is complete, not let's start telling some stories about the world!
Onward to the next book!
December 31, 2017
2.5
Things I dislike:
*The art. Oh my god, the art is so bad.
Is anyone going to talk about the weird eye shapes on the Batman mask?! Or are we all going to ignore it? Yeah? OK, cool.
*Futures End was terrible, and this whole premise with Tim Drake is just so bad. I sorta skimmed Batman Beyond, Volume 1: Brave New Worlds and Batman Beyond, Volume 2: City of Yesterday, and if you remove Tim from this title and replace him with Joe Schemo from down the block, this story would still remain exactly the same. Which means Tim's characterization and development sucks.
*The writing is just so bad and stiff. It has no feeling or heart.
Things I liked:
*The "flashback" story of Terry trying to solve the mystery of Tim's disappearance.
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*That this whole Brother Eye thing is over. Though if Jurgens is staying on Batman Beyond, I still won't pick up Rebirth.
Things I dislike:
*The art. Oh my god, the art is so bad.
Is anyone going to talk about the weird eye shapes on the Batman mask?! Or are we all going to ignore it? Yeah? OK, cool.
*Futures End was terrible, and this whole premise with Tim Drake is just so bad. I sorta skimmed Batman Beyond, Volume 1: Brave New Worlds and Batman Beyond, Volume 2: City of Yesterday, and if you remove Tim from this title and replace him with Joe Schemo from down the block, this story would still remain exactly the same. Which means Tim's characterization and development sucks.
*The writing is just so bad and stiff. It has no feeling or heart.
Things I liked:
*The "flashback" story of Terry trying to solve the mystery of Tim's disappearance.
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*That this whole Brother Eye thing is over. Though if Jurgens is staying on Batman Beyond, I still won't pick up Rebirth.
October 31, 2024
Liked a lot of it but more excited to start getting into the Rebirth storyline and was a little confused on Tim Drake ending.
March 23, 2017
Another wrap-up of storylines before the Rebirth Wave hits this title. A lot of things were laid out for me....but what does it matter when the title gets reset?
September 7, 2018
Jurgens continues a great run on this title by finishing the three volume transition arc that has us fully set for an ongoing new status quo designed to begin with the book's Rebirth re-launch. The story chronologically directly into Rebirth, the first volume of which was actually my first Batman Beyond reading. I went backward because I enjoyed what Jurgens was doing. Now it all makes more sense of course.
Tim is up against two of Terry's old villains in this volume Rewire and Mindbender--gotta get ready for Rebirth, so he takes care of them both by the end of the volume. As I indicated this three volume Tim Drake as future Batman story line felt transitional even from the first, and given the title of first Rebirth volume, "Escaping the Grave," I'm sure you can figure out how it essentially ends.
Best part of this? There is the usual time-travel comics stuff--that is to say, that much of what happens/happened in the larger storyline is erased because the heroes save the day, negating the past where time travel was necessary in order for them to do so. However, the costs of the story are at least a bit more palpable as Tim doesn't get the freebie flip back to the present that so often leaves the protagonist of these stories without any significant growth of impact. Tim doesn't just revert back to his past self and disappear from the future. Kudos for that. I've always hated that part of these kind of stories.
Tim is up against two of Terry's old villains in this volume Rewire and Mindbender--gotta get ready for Rebirth, so he takes care of them both by the end of the volume. As I indicated this three volume Tim Drake as future Batman story line felt transitional even from the first, and given the title of first Rebirth volume, "Escaping the Grave," I'm sure you can figure out how it essentially ends.
Best part of this? There is the usual time-travel comics stuff--that is to say, that much of what happens/happened in the larger storyline is erased because the heroes save the day, negating the past where time travel was necessary in order for them to do so. However, the costs of the story are at least a bit more palpable as Tim doesn't get the freebie flip back to the present that so often leaves the protagonist of these stories without any significant growth of impact. Tim doesn't just revert back to his past self and disappear from the future. Kudos for that. I've always hated that part of these kind of stories.
June 30, 2019
AKA 'We're resetting everything' - This volume concludes Tim Drake's adventures the Batman Beyond world by basically throwing in a lot of mumbo jumbo to restore the status quo. Villain Rewire is attacking, but his body has been found. So who's in the costume? Take two guesses. The why is slightly more nuanced but still pretty unpleasant. Matt gets a little more character here, and several other characters who had been sidelined get a chance to return. But for the most part, this is all about setting Batman Beyond up for Rebirth by resolving all the random storylines that were tossed into it. And several aren't really answered as Tim Drake drives off into the sunset.... The art's still decent if uninspired, and I'll agree that the 'negative' panels have been a weird insertion that long outlived its usefulness.
Fans of Batman Beyond will get some closure here if they started with the New 52 series, but they honestly would be just as well off if they skipped the series entirely and looked to Rebirth's version to return to the story (I'm assuming - I haven't read it yet).
Fans of Batman Beyond will get some closure here if they started with the New 52 series, but they honestly would be just as well off if they skipped the series entirely and looked to Rebirth's version to return to the story (I'm assuming - I haven't read it yet).
December 10, 2022
Turns out this series was in fact a complete waste of time. Past-Future-Tim had no character development and went nowhere at the end. Everything set up for the series by Future’s End was undone in an obvious cack-handed way. I’ve reached the end of this series now and I feel absolutely nothing.
There’s some mindless, fun action throughout that’s enjoyable. This volume sees Batman face Rewire and Spellbinder.
Rewire is a clever misdirection, taking an existing villain from the comics but not the show so it doesn’t matter when they secretly kill him off and reveal this Rewire is in fact Terry McGinnis back from the dead.
On the one hand, bringing Terry back to the role is undoubtedly the right decision. On the other hand, this is the worst way to do it. We spend no time with Terry here except while he’s being mind-controlled. Tim has not had a chance to be Batman at all before he’s unceremoniously shoved aside. Seeing Terry back as Batman in the final pages is not the big triumphant moment they were aiming for but frankly just disappointing.
I hope the Rebirth series is better.
There’s some mindless, fun action throughout that’s enjoyable. This volume sees Batman face Rewire and Spellbinder.
Rewire is a clever misdirection, taking an existing villain from the comics but not the show so it doesn’t matter when they secretly kill him off and reveal this Rewire is in fact Terry McGinnis back from the dead.
On the one hand, bringing Terry back to the role is undoubtedly the right decision. On the other hand, this is the worst way to do it. We spend no time with Terry here except while he’s being mind-controlled. Tim has not had a chance to be Batman at all before he’s unceremoniously shoved aside. Seeing Terry back as Batman in the final pages is not the big triumphant moment they were aiming for but frankly just disappointing.
I hope the Rebirth series is better.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 19, 2022
This volume of Batman Beyond ends with a whimper as most of the previous pieces are put back in place in the most cliche ways possible. It’s been a while since I read Future’s End, but even given that gap the timeline still feels muddied here thanks to some Previously On… time travel hijinks. And even though the world has been changed by a massive A.I. caused cataclysm, everything just feels like business as usual as DC’s Rebirth sweeps all that under the rug.
March 27, 2024
And we bring this chapter of Batman Beyond to a close with a sincere, albeit strange, effort to realign the timeline in order to avoid any plot holes. I suppose the final explanation makes sense but the solution wasn't the most elegant. But I'll still read on to the New 52 edition of the title to see how things are supposed to go.
If anything, the ending of the book makes this less of an Elseworlds version of this spinoff future timeline but into something else?
If anything, the ending of the book makes this less of an Elseworlds version of this spinoff future timeline but into something else?
September 7, 2017
Was really liking what this was building to, sadly it's like they forgot when Rebirth was happening and had to rush to the end when even just a couple more issues would have made it feel like it meant more to the story
July 29, 2023
Picked-up this book by accident because I thought this was volume 3 in the other Batman Beyond series. This was better than the previous Batman Beyond books, probably because the hero is Tim and not Terry. The ending sucked though.
August 26, 2018
Uh, make sure you read this in the right order. I started with vols. 1 and 2 of the Rebirth Batman Beyond, and was waaaay confused.
October 11, 2018
সিরিজ এখানে শেষ হইল না তো...
May 21, 2019
An interesting, twisty ending that feels complete on its own, but a nice setup for Rebirth.
July 10, 2019
That was.... a rather illogical conclusion to volume 5. It was pretty uneventful except for the final issue, there was no logic to be found.
August 11, 2019
Honestly it’s more of a 2. I just couldn’t buy the story it was selling. I wasn’t interested, it had too much background. The reveal felt cheap AF. Just mehhh
September 11, 2020
Finally it feels like it's getting somewhere and the story is properly paced, with a smaller (and more fitting) scope.
February 15, 2021
Interesting to read Batman Beyond without Terry being in the suit.
October 3, 2022
Last one of the three issues and an intro to the next series!
December 4, 2023
1 STAR ★ - Again this Batman Beyond run is a direct continuation of the Futures End story in the post Flashpoint continuity and as such it was okay but once more none of the things which happened in this book have anything to do with the reason I used to buy the BB series.
Another borrow from the library has finished this pseudo-Elseworlds tale as it integrated into some NEW-new continuity in which what happened did happen, maybe, but basically the old continuity back... kinda... I guess... It's a little vague.
I guess we'll see where it goes from here.
Another borrow from the library has finished this pseudo-Elseworlds tale as it integrated into some NEW-new continuity in which what happened did happen, maybe, but basically the old continuity back... kinda... I guess... It's a little vague.
I guess we'll see where it goes from here.
March 27, 2017
Tim Drake has a new enemy and he deals with the fact his timeline is well gone!
April 8, 2017
It took me ten minutes to remember even reading it. Not bad, just...there.
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