Batman: Fortress (2022-) #8

by Gary Whitta, Darick Robertson (Penciller), Diego Rodríguez (Colorist)

The final battle for Earth is at hand and the World’s Finest are together again! But what dark connection does Superman hold to the visiting aliens, and how will his secrets forever change Batman and Earth?

Genres: Comics, Batman

26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 17, 2023

About the author

Gary Whitta is an award-winning screenwriter best known for The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington. He also co-wrote the Will Smith sci-fi movie After Earth, and was writer and story consultant on Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead. He is co-writer of the upcoming Star Wars movie Rogue One as well as the animated series Star Wars Rebels.

Reviews

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Uh.
What.
There's a tribunal body so evil that they don't care about the fact that Kal El was a literal child?
Jor El and the house of El was evil? They blew up their sun? Clark decided to like.. hide and leave everyone behind with 0 heads up and how long has he known about that and he decided to hide... just in time?????? WHAT.
That made almost no sense.
I mean good for Lois and her promotion at the end.
I guess oh boy we can transfer the powers to someone, like we didn't see exactly how that could go wrong here and there in some other comics and jesus what they did to Lex was... a lil extreme if satisfying and kinda... I don't know. This was... something. Not one I think I'll be rereading, the characters felt kind of OOC and I'm not sure they ever recovered any of their heroes like, there was so much going on and ... how long did Clark know about the dark history of Krypton and then he waited sooo long to ... c'mon. I don't know. I really wasn't all that into this, and it was one I was more or less enjoying and looking forward to some kind of resolution to, honestly. I don't need Superman to be super, or keep his powers, even, I just... on the whole have so many questions about this...

[John-E-Raps · Rating 4 out of 5]

I originally picked up this mini series without any sort of expectations. Whitta is an entirely new writer me, and I thoroughly enjoyed this story from beginning to end. This is a decent issue with a solid ending, staying true to the characters and their roots (especially when it comes to Batman, Superman and Lex Luthor). This makes me feel like they should bring back the Elseworlds imprint. Actually, I would love to see a continuation of this alternate reality/ timeline at some point.

[Neil kelly]

Scintillating end to the series. Hope there's more to come.

Love the way it concludes, and the way in which we got there. Seeing my favourite superhero in a new light has left me desperate for more.

Thoroughly recommend