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Batman (2011) #7-10
Batman by Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo Box Set 3
This collectible slipcase box set features the concluding four volumes of Batman from the superstar creative team of Scott Snyder (American Vampire) and Greg Capullo (Spawn). In these shattering stories, the pair bring Batman and The Joker together for their final, catastrophic showdown, followed by a shocking aftermath in which Gotham City and its heroes may never be the same!
This collector's box set includes:
Batman Vol. 7: Endgame
Batman Vol. 8: Superheavy
Batman Vol. 9: Bloom
Batman Vol. 10: Epilogue
This collector's box set includes:
Batman Vol. 7: Endgame
Batman Vol. 8: Superheavy
Batman Vol. 9: Bloom
Batman Vol. 10: Epilogue
500 pages, Paperback
Published September 11, 2018
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Scott Snyder
1,782 books5,142 followersScott Snyder is the Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer on DC Comics Batman, Swamp Thing, and his original series for Vertigo, American Vampire. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006. The paperback version was published in the summer of 2007.
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March 25, 2020
Less than two months ago I decided to give the new-52 Snyder run on Batman a proper read. I'd read the first three volumes. There were seven left. I was able to pick up all ten volumes for cheap, and shortly after doing so I had a conversation with a friend, talking about how it gets really verbose and drops the ball. I was skeptical...
Turns out my friend was right, because this series shit the bed prettttty hard in the home stretch.
It's not all bad. The Endgame arc, the return of the Joker with its big bombastic epic loud yelling... It was crazy and throwing everything at the wall... It was fun. Like, as a Joker story it was epic in ways Death of the Family was innovative and fresh. It had a strong ending. I really liked it.
But then the last three volumes happened. And Bruce Wayne went AWOL and for some reason, Snyder put Commissioner Gordon into the role of Batman and put him up against a new villain named Mister Bloom. Boom is *great* and creepy and interesting and weird. And I was willing to give Gordon the benefit of the doubt. At a certain point comics run out of ideas and there's only so many people you can put in the cowl...
Yet... good god this took a heavy, deeply unintelligible shit.
I understand why. Snyder was aware that the New 52 was ending, that his run was reaching an apotheosis, so he went for a big giant bombastic ending that was massive and just... beyond the scope of what made Snyder's initial run so good. At least at the beginning there was an intimacy to all of the proceedings, but this was so loud and impossible to follow at a certain point. Bruce Wayne's return to the role of Batman was inevitable and happened with the level of import that you would imagine for such a momentous occasion.
The problem is... I didn't feel like it was earned. Snyder has all this real estate in the last twelve issues, but can't seem to juggle Gordon as Batman, Bruce Wayne as contented adult, Mister Bloom as creepy slender man. The last half of this was nonstop soliloquies and bombast in ways that I didn't enjoy. It was the sort of series that made me want to not read any more Snyder after this. And maybe it's helped that I took almost ten years off the comics and Snyder isn't the hot new blood that I thought he was back in the day.
The ideas are strong too. Again, Bloom is strong. Bruce getting a contented life and having to come back to Batman is strong. The concept of Batman creating an "ultimate" redundancy involving cloning is a strong concept! (Although that last one was hammered so hard that by the third or fourth time they covered it really lost the novelty and felt way too self-congratulatory...)
And yet, the problems were always there, and writers only get them-ier as time goes on. All of those excesses that I had an issue with went I started this series are only worse here in ways that I wish they weren't. I wish I could say this was an all-time Batman run, but it's hard to even declare anything beyond the initial Owls arc as worth the time. I mean... even the Joker stories have characters who are talking way too much in ways that are deeply unpleasant to read in comic book form.
Just disappointing. I'm hoping the Tom King run is as strong as it's started off. Looking forward to that when I get to it.
Vol 7: Endgame - 4 Stars
Vol 8: Superheavy - 2 Stars
Vol 9: Bloom - 2 Stars
Vol 10: Epilogue - 2 Stars
Turns out my friend was right, because this series shit the bed prettttty hard in the home stretch.
It's not all bad. The Endgame arc, the return of the Joker with its big bombastic epic loud yelling... It was crazy and throwing everything at the wall... It was fun. Like, as a Joker story it was epic in ways Death of the Family was innovative and fresh. It had a strong ending. I really liked it.
But then the last three volumes happened. And Bruce Wayne went AWOL and for some reason, Snyder put Commissioner Gordon into the role of Batman and put him up against a new villain named Mister Bloom. Boom is *great* and creepy and interesting and weird. And I was willing to give Gordon the benefit of the doubt. At a certain point comics run out of ideas and there's only so many people you can put in the cowl...
Yet... good god this took a heavy, deeply unintelligible shit.
I understand why. Snyder was aware that the New 52 was ending, that his run was reaching an apotheosis, so he went for a big giant bombastic ending that was massive and just... beyond the scope of what made Snyder's initial run so good. At least at the beginning there was an intimacy to all of the proceedings, but this was so loud and impossible to follow at a certain point. Bruce Wayne's return to the role of Batman was inevitable and happened with the level of import that you would imagine for such a momentous occasion.
The problem is... I didn't feel like it was earned. Snyder has all this real estate in the last twelve issues, but can't seem to juggle Gordon as Batman, Bruce Wayne as contented adult, Mister Bloom as creepy slender man. The last half of this was nonstop soliloquies and bombast in ways that I didn't enjoy. It was the sort of series that made me want to not read any more Snyder after this. And maybe it's helped that I took almost ten years off the comics and Snyder isn't the hot new blood that I thought he was back in the day.
The ideas are strong too. Again, Bloom is strong. Bruce getting a contented life and having to come back to Batman is strong. The concept of Batman creating an "ultimate" redundancy involving cloning is a strong concept! (Although that last one was hammered so hard that by the third or fourth time they covered it really lost the novelty and felt way too self-congratulatory...)
And yet, the problems were always there, and writers only get them-ier as time goes on. All of those excesses that I had an issue with went I started this series are only worse here in ways that I wish they weren't. I wish I could say this was an all-time Batman run, but it's hard to even declare anything beyond the initial Owls arc as worth the time. I mean... even the Joker stories have characters who are talking way too much in ways that are deeply unpleasant to read in comic book form.
Just disappointing. I'm hoping the Tom King run is as strong as it's started off. Looking forward to that when I get to it.
Vol 7: Endgame - 4 Stars
Vol 8: Superheavy - 2 Stars
Vol 9: Bloom - 2 Stars
Vol 10: Epilogue - 2 Stars
July 1, 2020
And thus it ends, with a whimper. What started so amazingly in the first third really tapered off on the back end. We start to see the Snyder/Capullo method of "throw everything into it," which culminates in their atrocious Dark Nights: Metal.
March 4, 2021
3, maaaybe 2.5 stars but it was overall still entertaining. I just feel like this series didn't have that much of a build up or climax. A lot of the New 52 run is like this, where I feel like you could read a specific arc and nothing else and still be fine. If you wanted to just read Court of Owls you could, same with Death of the Family, Zero Year, and Endgame. This isn't inherently bad and I think its part of what made this run so popular but reading it all in one go made it a bit disappointing.
There's some interesting stuff in Endgame but it feels so half assed and unfocused. Like it wanted to feel like this grand finale and it kind of does but it doesn't give the scope of Jokers threat that well. The stuff with the Justice League was overkill and the mysteries about Jokers identity are muddled and should have either been more relevant in the story or not there at all.
The Superheavy arc also had fun stuff but it doesn't make it that interesting. I loved Blooms look and personality but their backstory was just not satisfying at all. Same with the idea of a cop Batman, it could've been done well and made a statement about how Batman functions in the system and critiques it's effectiveness. It did some interesting stuff when it came to the technology/finances of Batman but it didn't really have much to say on a deeper level. Greg Capullo is a good costume designer though. Some of the stuff with Bruce post Endgame was cool but it was also predictable and I'm not crazy about how unsupportive Alfred was.
I think the Batman cloning storyline in Snyder's entire run is a bad character trait for Batman to have. I do not like the idea that Bruce thinks only he can be Batman.
There's some interesting stuff in Endgame but it feels so half assed and unfocused. Like it wanted to feel like this grand finale and it kind of does but it doesn't give the scope of Jokers threat that well. The stuff with the Justice League was overkill and the mysteries about Jokers identity are muddled and should have either been more relevant in the story or not there at all.
The Superheavy arc also had fun stuff but it doesn't make it that interesting. I loved Blooms look and personality but their backstory was just not satisfying at all. Same with the idea of a cop Batman, it could've been done well and made a statement about how Batman functions in the system and critiques it's effectiveness. It did some interesting stuff when it came to the technology/finances of Batman but it didn't really have much to say on a deeper level. Greg Capullo is a good costume designer though. Some of the stuff with Bruce post Endgame was cool but it was also predictable and I'm not crazy about how unsupportive Alfred was.
I think the Batman cloning storyline in Snyder's entire run is a bad character trait for Batman to have. I do not like the idea that Bruce thinks only he can be Batman.
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