Bat-Mito

Bat-Mite #0.9, 1-6

by Dan Jurgens, Corin Howell

¿Eres un super héroe cansado del trabajo diario? ¿Has pensado en que tu imagen podrá renovarse por completo? ¿O que tal vez necesitas una Batzooka o dos? ¿Estás en busca de un toque mágico para ponerle más sabor a la mundana vía de acción y aventura sin fin?

Entonces, ¡estás de suerte! Bat-Mito, ¡un diablillo de la Quinta Dimensión y coach personal de las estrellas, arribó a la ciudad!

Exiliado de su hogar debido a sus crímenes demasiado ridículos para describir, Bat-Mito llegó a la tierra. Pero ese pequeño rechazo ¡no minara las fuerzas del buen Mito! Aparentemente nuestro planeta esta lleno de super héroes que necesitan su ayuda: Hawkman, Robin, Booster Gold, incluso Batman, Bat-Mito hará su mejor esfuerzo para renovar sus vidas como tan desesperadamente lo requieren (¡aunque ellos no lo sepan!)

Bat-Mito esta listo para hacer de la Tierra un mejor y alocado lugar. Y si logra hacer mas bien que mal, el regresará a casa.

Lo mejor de Bat-Mito (¡y no intentes discutir!) en esta miniserie ideal para todas las edades del escritor DAN JURGENS (Superman Lois & Clark, BATMAN BEYOND) y el artista CORIN HOWELL (WINDBLADE). Recopila los números Bat-Mite #1-#6 ya demás un vistazo a Bat-Mite #1 de regalo!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Humor, Superheroes, Action, Batman

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 8, 2016

About the author

Dan 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.

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meets Bat-Mite, Batman's number one fanboy in all worlds and dimensions!

'Nananananana Bat-Mite!'

Well, the stories are pretty random but they are a lot of fun, I hope there will be a next volume. XD

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I saw Dan Jurgens was writing Bat-Mite, I cringed as he's not really known for his humor. But this was funnier than expected. Gridlock was an appropriate villain for current times but I felt he missed some opportunities with the character. I enjoyed Howell's art on the series.

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 4 out of 5]

What...this group rating is too low.

Jurgens script is funny while also being topical...and goes places I didn't think he would go.

And Bat-mite is both lovable while also we find we can understand why he is frustrating.

I laughed out loud a few times.

[Ben Truong · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the many series coming out of the Convergence event is this mini-series. Bat-Mite is an extra-dimensional imp that is depicted as a small, childlike man in an ill-fitting costume, it possesses what appear to be near-infinite magical powers, but he actually utilizes highly advanced technology from the fifth dimension that cannot be understood by humanity's limited views. This trade paperback collected all six issues of the 2015 on-going series and the DC Sneak Peek: Bat-Mite.

Bat-Mite opens up with DC Sneak Peek: Bat-Mite short that introduces the series from the Convergence crossover event. Written by Dan Jurgens and penciled by Corin Howell. It features Bat-Mite which appears in our dimension to help out Bruce Wayne as Batman fight crime, because Bat-Mite thinks he could help his "protégé" and not just him, but the entire superhero community at large.

The on-going series opens up with a triumvirate of hooded figures banishing Bat-Mite to Earth for undisclosed crimes. Once he reaches Earth, he thinks that he could help out Batman and the superhero community in general.

After succeeding in "helping" Batman, Bat-Mite gets captured and imprisoned by Doctor Trauma, where he finds himself imprisoned Hawkman. After saving and un-brainwashed Hawkman, he is allowed to live with Reagan Bennington and Weed for the time being, because he rescued them as well.

It is here that Bat-Mite faces his next opponent in Gridlock. He tries to help superheroes Damian Wayne as Robin (Bat-Mite #3), Booster Gold (Bat-Mite #4), and the Inferior Five (Meryman, The Blimp, White Feather, Tough Bunny, and Awkwardman (Bat-Mite #5)) to stop Gridlock, but he seem to escape at the last moment. Cameo appearances also include Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, and President Obama in Bat-Mite #6.

Monitoring all this is the hooded triumvirate, which isn't pleased with Bat-Mite's antics, because they're endangered to the people of the Earth and so they send the Silent Sentry to bring Bat-Mite back. When they Bat-Mite was returned to their dimension, he is tried again, and instead of death or banishment, he was invited back into the Justice Mites of America. Apparently, the hooded triumvirate was Super-Mite, Wonder-Mite and Aqua-Mite.

Dan Jurgens penned the entire series and for the most part it was done rather well. The miniseries was a joy and fun to read – it did not take itself seriously, and it wasn't meant to. It was obviously penned for a younger audience, but I believe adults who want something inconsequential and fun to read could enjoy this series as well. It is rather safe for everyone to read.

Corin Howell penciled the entire trade paperback and because he was the only penciler, the artistic flow of the trade paperback flowed exceptionally well. His penciling style is a tad too cartoonish, but it is apropos to this series, so I wasn't all too bother by it. I think that the penciling accentuated the series rather well.

All in all, Bat-Mite was done rather well. The premise and story is rather simplistic, but it is in its simplicity that makes this series a joy to read. It knows its target audience and didn't stray from it all too much. The illustrations were great and appropriate for the series. Bat-Mite is a very interesting premise, but it ended rather well – there weren't too many stories one could tell in this premise without quickly sounded repetitive.

[Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe 2.5 stars. I like the concept, and it had some legitimately funny moments, but it wasn't as good as Bizarro, the other all-ages miniseries that came out at the same time. It gets kind of repetitive: Bat-Mite meets a new hero, does something to change them (usually making them "grittier"), hero finds them annoying, etc. Other subplots, like his relationship to his roommates and why the Mites bring him back to his home dimension, have endings that seem inconsistent or unearned.

The villains (all invented for this series) are simultaneously the best and worst part of the story. I don't have many complaints about Doctor Trauma—her concept, a mad scientist who's spent centuries kidnapping and body-surfing into people, is both appropriately "comic booky" yet also quite creepy when you think about it. However, the last four issues all focus on Gridlock. I really like his simple but effective paralyzing power, but he quickly becomes a strawman for some vague concept of "not moving forward," which is interpreted quite inconsistently. In one he's just ranting about selfie culture; in the next he wants to freeze time or something; then he (is this even worth spoiler tagging?) wants to steal an old TV pilot; then he's a senator who always votes against any change. (Who would even elect him? Everybody wants some kind of change, even if we can't agree on what. Also, should he even want to see the Galaxy Trek pilot? Wouldn't that, in effect, retroactively "change the show," when his whole thing is keeping everything exactly how he remembers it?)

Which is another underdeveloped idea. Bat-Mite constantly tries to change things, Gridlock wants everything the same forever...I feel like this parallel is so obvious that it must be intentional, but nothing much comes of it, nor of the idea of Booster Gold and the Inferior Five as Bat-Mite's fellow "wannabe heroes." I also don't like the trope that the IF's issue did, where as soon as characters lose a flaw they instantly act like jerks. Maybe it would have worked better if "grittiness" was explicitly part of Bat-Mite's changes.

Also, how do Bat-Mite's powers even work? He can warp reality with a snap of his fingers, but then he ruins his roommate's photo album and doesn't think to fix it? How can he instantly warp to Gridlock's location in one issue, then not know how to find him later?

I think my word count is longer than the actual comic now. tl;dr: There are some good moments, but it lacks the totally goofiness and heart that Bizarro has. I'm not sure if kids would understand the vague commentary that it's trying to make, and adults (at least, ones like me) will more likely be annoyed by it.

[Rolando Marono · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leí reviews del título después de adquirirlo. Así que antes de empezar a leerlo, mi imagen y mi esperanza sobre el título había bajo demasiado: No esperaba absolutamente nada del título; y es en estos momentos cuando más puedes disfrutar una obra en su totalidad.
Cabe aclarar obviamente que esta obra no está a la altura ni debería de compararse con obras serias que planean trascender e innovar el mundo de los cómics. El objetivo de Bat-mito es meramente entretener, aún así, se merece 3 estrellas.
El humor de la obra se siente forzado. Hay veces que si me reí pero la mayoría no.
Los personajes no están construidos. Bat-mito no tiene un pasado interesante o bien explicado. Y su personalidad es contradictoria a veces, a veces es torpe otras veces es astuto, a veces es tierno y otras veces es violento. No es consistente, sus cambios son radicales.
El arte es bueno, me gusta como se ve Batman en este estilo. Es muy interesante y las pocas escenas de acción son muy fluidas.
El villano no tiene motivaciones claras, y no entendí bien por qué quería regresar al pasado, no te cuentan nada de su origen y sus habilidades tampoco son claras, únicas o llamativas.

[Cale · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is one of those books that is trying so hard to be funny, but can't quite pull it off. There are a couple of decent moments, but overall it's a lot of silly set-ups that don't ever pay off their situations. Bat-Mite has been exiled from his dimension and decides to do 'make-overs' on DC heroes. This gives him one-issue sets with Hawkman, Damien, Booster Gold, and the Inferior Five while he is interacting with new villain Gridlock (his power is he makes things stop. Really). I've got fond memories of Booster, so that issue was the high point, but there's honestly a lot of whiffed set-ups and poor attempts at humor. Maybe the problem is that it is aimed at a much younger audience - they might enjoy it (the art seems to intimate that is its goal), but yeah, there's nothing here to go out of your way to read.

[Stacey Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bat-Mite is exiled from wherever he's from and ends up on Earth. He thinks he's helping other super heroes and citizens but he causes more trouble than he knows. He's bumbling, abrasive, uncouth, little and sensitive about his stature. He makes friends by saving Weed and Reagan then moves in with them....he is not the best roommate. Bat-Mite works "with" Hawkman after saving him from having his brain taken by Dr. Trauma. He sides with Booster Gold against Gridlock trying to stop him from stopping time. He "aids" the Inferior Five, the bumbling super hero wannabe's changing them "for the better"....but they aren't happy about the change.
Bat-Mite is a goofy, fun read. Lots of mistakes, oops and sorry involved....clean up on aisle 6. Love the colors...bright, vibrant. The dialog is witty at times.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Collects Bat-Mite issues #1-6 and DC Sneak Peek: Bat-Mite #1

I wanted to like this more than I did, and in the end I found it to be just so-so. There were funny parts, but then there were also stupid parts. I could see a younger audience liking this more, however they would miss a lot of the Easter Egg-filled jokes.

There were multiple DC superhero appearances in this book, but not even Booster Gold could ultimately save it.

It seems like the writer, Dan Jurgens, had time to write a wrap-up to the story he had planned, because the meta nature of Bat-Mite allowed for Jurgens to reference the fact that the book had been cancelled.

[Moonlava · Rating 3 out of 5]

people only hate bat-mite because everyone who's written him so far hasn't been funny enough. i will defend this insufferable little creacher until someone finally does him justice. that said, this version of him is at least an improvement over his earlier incarnations, in which he looks and sounds like he got into an altercation with a freight train and lost. this didn't have me lol-ing or anything, but with only 6 issues to work with, it at least manages to be cute. better than year one and the killing joke. 6/10

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love goofy comics. Bat-Mite is a favorite. Yes, he's sort of a poor man's Mr. Mxyzptlk but there are just enough differences to keep him interesting. And this weird take by Dan Jurgens is just a laugh riot. But then how could I not love a comic with Bat-Mite, Booster Gold and The Inferior Five.

[Adan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had hoped for something funnier, honestly. There were some funny bits, but overall it was just kind of boring. I did like the art, though, and the redesigns for Hawkman and Booster Gold were pretty funny.

[Valéria. · Rating 5 out of 5]

It has 3 things I love.
There's Batman.
There's Bat-mite.
There's Booster Gold.

Jurgens and his type of writing always gets me where I expect to get. Laughing through the whole book on imp's quotes, situations and art. I swear I have read this about hundred times and I probably will again.

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bat-Mite can be fun but only in small doses. A six issue limited series is too much. While there were some funny moments it was just too much. Too much shtick, too many issues, too much...Bat-Mite. This would have worked better as an annual.

[Yuiko · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boring at first i liked it but after a while i didnt

[Ketan Shah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mildly amusing in parts but mostly blah. Legends of the Dark Mite was much funnier

[Martin Maenza · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a lot of goofy fun - just what I would expect from a Bat-Mite mini series. Plenty of great inside jokes for longtime DC fans like myself.

[Will Cooper]

Cute and somewhat funny book.

[Efe Sarıtunalı · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tüm DC YOU serileri gibi çok keyifli.

[Scott Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is pretty fun. The stuff with Bat-Mite and Damian is the best. They’re great foils. I also enjoyed the many references to the 60s Adam West series.

[tim Skaggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very fast page Turner.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bat-Mite is a quick read filled with camp, alliteration, and references. A lot of my joy from reading this, was the thinking back to the camp of Batman '66 and the silliness of those older comics. The story is not the deepest, but what do you expect from Bat-Mite?

[Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very silly, sometimes innane, and often funny little series. I have applauded DC for trying many different genres of comic over the past five years or so, and bringing back actually FUNNY comic books is the latest. Honestly, they haven't all been amazing attempts (I thought the Klarion series was just about the most awful comic every published!), but I can't say they haven't attempted to create interest in war comics, westerns, villain books, and even classic Jack Kirby stuff like OMAC and the New Gods.

This is the comic book equivalent to watching Cartoon Network - and a lot of the jokes land the same way. Silly sight gags and goofy humor that certainly appeals to a number of folks, but this series would really connect with a younger audience who loves the DC characters. There is a thin plot in here, but it's almost an after-thought as Bat-Mite careens through the greater DCU. I actually got the most enjoyment from the final issue of the series with some great political gags and some fun meta-humor about comics and DC in general.

This isn't Shakespeare, folks. But if you're looking for a funny distraction for a while and this is the one hour a day that Spongebob isn't on, you might give this one a shot.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real moment: Halfway through this volume, I was about to toss it aside and imagine terrible, painful, downright torturous things happening to Bat-Mite, all with a smile on my face. But I didn't. Something told me it would get better, that BM (heh) would stop being such an irritating PoS, and that the plots would come together, and the characters would develop into...well...anything.
And it did get better. There was a point. The characters...well...whatever. And BM, boy-howdy, I'm still looking forward to him being a punching bag a little more often. Overall, it's a completely needless, wildly unwarranted series that contributes exactly BUPKISS to the DC Universe. But it's a silly little piece of annoying fluff that made me chuckle, and the art was gorgeous. So that's it.

[Thomas Maluck · Rating 2 out of 5]

If this book had more of Bat-Mite trying to "fix" DC's characters, that'd be funnier than what this book actually contains, which is lots of Mite trying to befriend everyone he meets and some particularly tone-deaf humor. (A bit where Mite tries to reform some presidential candidates in the form of Jeb offering Fried Chicken Fridays, Hillary changing her outfit, and Bernie acting like a faux-rapper was particularly groan-worthy)

[J · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although I enjoyed the art by Corin Howell, Dan Jurgens's script for this Bat-Mite miniseries just didn't hit it with me. Lots of gags that weren't funny, and cameos by DC stars that seemed forced and unnecessary. It was great to see the Inferior 5 again, but even their comedic roles weren't enough to salvage this.

[Stephen Olley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Silly, stupid, and very funny. The final page had me giggling like an idiot. I hope it comes back soon.

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit light on the plot side of things, but the art is expressive and fun. All in all a fun read

[Colin Parfitt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unlike Bizarro,
This isn't very funny.
A bit flat, DC.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious and adorable. +1 for the Donald trump burn in it.