I AM BATMAN #1 spoilers and discussion

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A new dark knight rises and this time with his new #1, an official batsuit, and art by Oliver Coipel (for the first issue anyway). This new Batman has decided to take it to the streets during Fear State and be a Batman of the people...but what the heck does that look like?

Well apparently it means being an openly patrolling Batman. Yeah instead of running around rooftops, grappling, and driving real fast in a suped up car, Jace has decided to just cruise Alleytown in his bike. In his mind he believes it’s best to actually be a part of people’s lives and be seen, because then you see the people on the ground. I’m not really sure how it differentiates from Bruce, admittedly Bruce does spend a lot of time in his cave and is more swinging in the air but I’m not 100% sure if it’s a fair analysis. Of course there is something to say that Jace may be less intimidating, as he simply tells kids to stop graffitiing and doesn’t beat on a reckless driver but instead lets the public deal with him. Of course he’s not afraid to whoop on people as we see when he fights some armed conspiracy theorist.

But yeah not a bad night out for our new Batman when Vol, who we can actually see for once, tells him they found the guy involved with the explosion in the zero issue.

Oh and somethings happened to a Batman villain, the cops find the body but come to a conclusion that it was not the magistrate who could have shot him, which begs only one question.

Who killed spoilers:

Anarchy

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Anyway I think it’s a decent start. Here’s the thing though it’s not a grand big beginning with a new #1, this might as well just be continued Next Batman Second Son because it’s just Jace’s story continued on. Actually makes me wonder why Second Son was a miniseries at this point. But I do think it’s a good showing as Jace’s first time officially in the batsuit and I think it really helps that the art on this is by Coipel, let’s just hope Segovia can keep up the good work.