Batman: Urban Legends #4

Batman: Urban Legends (Single Issues)

by Chip Zdarsky, Matthew Rosenberg, Meghan Fitzmartin

-The penultimate chapter of the Grifter story is here! Grifter’s walking a deadly line between Lucius Fox and Halo’s plan...can he survive the endgame? Oh, and yeah, now Superman is after him!
-As old wounds threaten to sabotage Batman and Red Hood’s investigation into the Cheerdrop drug turning Gotham City upside down, they run afoul of Gotham’s coldest criminal, MR. FREEZE! And the force behind the Cheerdrops will be banking on the former dynamic duo’s demise...
-TIM DRAKE has returned to the streets of Gotham City and is seeking a new purpose, but what he finds is a string of young adult kidnappings committed by someone known only as “the Chaos Monster.” will Tim be able to get to the root of the kidnappings, or will he fall prey to them? Critically acclaimed Future State Robin Eternal writer Meghan Fitzmartin returns to tell this Tim Drake story with rising star artist Belén Ortega.
-Acclaimed creator and actor Camrus Johnson writes an action-packed story featuring Luke Fox-the character he portrays on the CW’s hit television series Batwoman!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Dc Comics, Batman, Comic Book

70 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 8, 2021

About the author

Chip Zdarsky is a Canadian comic book artist and journalist. He was born Steve Murray but is known by his fan base as Chip Zdarsky, and occasionally Todd Diamond. He writes and illustrates an advice column called Extremely Bad Advice for the Canadian national newspaper National Post's The Ampersand, their pop culture section's online edition. He is also the creator of Prison Funnies and Monster Cops.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Oliver aka BCC]

Red Hood & Batman - 5⭐
Batwing - 3⭐
Robin - 4⭐
Grifter - 4⭐

[Gordon]

Red Hood: 4 ⭐
Batwing: 3⭐
Robin: 3⭐
Grifter: 5⭐

[a ☕︎]

the pietà allusion… writers can never resist its siren call when writing parental relationships…

[Regina]

Red Hood & Batman in "Cheer" Part 4 (of 6):

"Jason. Dammit, son. I'm on my way. I won't let you–

You're alive. In the here. In the now. I know this. [...] I don't need to be here again, in the past. I've learned my lessons.

The guilt doesn't help me. It doesn't have a hold on me anymore.

You're alive, Jason. And I intend to keep it that way."

This is a heartbreaking issue, redoing panels right off of A Death In The Family, paralleling Batman going back to save Robin back then, to Batman on his way to save Red Hood now. You can see how the events of Jason's death hurt Bruce deeply, how guilty he felt about that and the pain that came with the loss of his son.

Also, that panel of Batman holding Jason's body to him (the one that is the cover of the aforementioned classic story) is redone in a way that it looks like Batman is kissing his son's forehead; as if he were only asleep and not dead. That's real powerful imagery.

Batwing in "Superman Punch":
This is my first Batwing story ever, I was planing on buying the Batwing Omnibus coming out later in the year but heck I can't say no to a story written by the actor portraying the character!! It was a fun but short issue, with one of my favorite rogues: Riddler. I'm looking forward to reading more about Batwing and the Fox.

Tim Drake in "Sum of Our Parts" Part 1 (of 3):
Nice Chaos design, not recommended on people with trypophobia.

[Benja Calderon]

Con fuerte presencia de flashbacks, vemos como Red Hood piensa su tiempo como Robin y que fue lo que falló entre ese duo dinámico, mientras Mr Freeze sale detrás de bambalinas para ponerlo en aprietos... así como a Batman

Batwing vuelva a tener acción, en una historia que involucra a Riddler y Killer Croc

Trabajando de nuevo con el alias de Robin (mientras Damian no está), Tim se interesa en una serie de secuestros de adolescentes en Gotham, mientras también toma tiempo para pensar en su vida personal... viéndose interrumpido por el culpable de estos secuestros

Grifter sigue en su cruzada doble (triple?) de ser guardaespaldas de Lucius Fox y robar información de Empresas Wayne... situación que se complica cuando la visita de Superman desencaja los planes de Cole

[Shawn Ingle]

The Batwing story did nothing for me. The Grifter story is getting too drawn out and the Batman/Red Hood story is in danger of doing the same. Tim Drake story was pretty good. The artwork is above average throughout.

[danabelle]

nobody care about gifter, the red hood story kinda starting to drag? Tim's story had a couple flaws in the dialogue but the artwork was beautiful and imma wait for it to unfold before I give any real thoughts.

[Cora]

I got this for the Batwing story by Camrus Johnson and I really enjoyed it. I hope he writes more in future because he's a good writer.

I also really liked the start of Sum of Our Parts so I'm thinking of continuing to get this series to see what happens in that story.

[Jay]

Cheer - 3
Superman Punch - 3
Sum of Our Parts - 4
The Long Con - 5

[James]

I can't believe I'm enjoying a Grifter story. That should tell you the strength of this title.

[kitxia]

this one is my favourite <3

[Thomas O.]

That's easy I see tim after a while and I rate this 5 stars sorry not sorry
JASON'S FLASHBACKS OF HIS DEATH THAT HURT

[Rob S.]

RED WOOD: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
BATWING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
TIM DRAKE: ⭐⭐⭐
GRIFTER: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kezia]

Red Hood: 4.5⭐ GODDAMN IT SOMEONE GIVE CHIP A RED HOOD RUN RIGHT NOW
Batwing: 3⭐
Tim: 4⭐ - !!!!!
Grifter: 4.25 - lmao

[Ela]

Red Hood & Batman - 5⭐
Batwing - 3⭐
Robin - 4⭐
Grifter - 2 ⭐

[gianna]

FINALLY TIM DRAKE'S STORY!!! still really bitter for dc to make timsteph break-up offscreen after developing their relationship for years, but oh well....

[Thibaut Nicodème]

Read these for bi tim drake, it is a cute story, but is it worth the cost of having to get the rest of these issues? Debatable. Maybe DC should have given it its own separate run/issue. Just saying.

[Steven Shinder]

Again, some stuff is better than others.

[Belfry]

Red Hood & Batman: 5 stars
Batwing: 2.5 stars
Tim Drake: 3.5 stars
Grifter: 1.5 stars

3 stars

[Kenna]

Red Hood & Batman - 4⭐
Batwing - 3⭐
Robin - 2⭐
Grifter - 5⭐

[James DeSantis]

"Dammit Son, I'm coming"

SO FUCKING GOOD.

[aya]

not sure how i feel about jasons and batmans relationship here

[Renan Fontes]

Cheer (4 of 6): Another great installment in Cheer with lots of character character development, action, and paneling. It's no wonder it was chosen to frontline the first six issues.

Superman Punch: It's fine.

Sum of Our Parts (1 of 3): Really strong start. This has the potential be a great story arc about identity, especially for a character who desperately needs a new one.

The Long Con (4 of 5): Against all odds, I'm excited to see how this ends.

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Easily the best issue of Urban Legends so far.