Ram V and Rafael Albuquerque on Detective Comics

[Frontier]

"How Gothic can we get?"

"Pretty Gothic."

[Mantis-Ray]

The Orghams do come across as classic horror movie villains

Wouldn't surprise me if the boss is a vampire lord

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

I feel Batman does better with mysticism than sci-fi/cyberpunk themes.

So I'm enjoying Ram V's run over Zdarsky's.

[Zagre]

The Orghams do come across as classic horror movie villains

Wouldn't surprise me if the boss is a vampire lord

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Well if that's the case let's hope it goes better for Bruce than the last time he faced vampires.

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[exile001]

Wouldn't surprise me if the boss is a vampire lord

Imagine if all this is leading to a return for the Mad Monk.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Imagine if all this is leading to a return for the Mad Monk.

That would be epic.

[HsssH]

So was Two Face always talking to his "other" side or is this a new development?

Anyway, Reis killed it on art.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

So was Two Face always talking to his "other" side or is this a new development?

Anyway, Reis killed it on art.

I thought he was possessed by an outside force. So his head is extra crowded.

[Captain Nostalgia]

I'm just enjoying this so much, even the slower paced issues are great. Probably the best comic run I've read all year.

[InfamousBG]

This has been very well done so far. My go to issue each week. Love the art.

[HsssH]

I found the annual to be very disappointing. I understand the idea that there are old families in Gotham, but when you have so many of them appearing (in one form or another) centuries ago it just makes me feel like I'm reading Elseworlds "Batman: 1776" story rather than the chapter of an ongoing story set in the main universe.

Some things happen, but most of them feel rather pointless and unlike with regular issues we don't have killer art covering it all up.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

It made me want a Gotham 1776 spinoff but the Orghams are more of a background figure. Their plot feels very high concept. Both Zdarsky and V are riffing on Grant Morrison's run.

It was good but I rather have gotten more on the kid in the backups or the Orghams.

[Frontier]

High concept and old secret societies have prevailed in this franchise a bit too much in my opinion...

[thwhtGuardian]

I found the annual to be very disappointing. I understand the idea that there are old families in Gotham, but when you have so many of them appearing (in one form or another) centuries ago it just makes me feel like I'm reading Elseworlds "Batman: 1776" story rather than the chapter of an ongoing story set in the main universe.

Some things happen, but most of them feel rather pointless and unlike with regular issues we don't have killer art covering it all up.

As an Elseworld tale I love the idea of there having been multiple Batmen and various period themed villains and allies through out the years and in the past I even liked that Morrison kind of incorporated them into continuity by having them be a time traveling Bruce Wayne...but various Batmen occurring in Gotham's past because of some ill defined magical artifact(and possibly the Phantom Stranger?) used by an evil society of immortals and that Bruce Wayne is only the current iteration seems a bridge too far.

Don't get me wrong, early colonial Batman fighting a band brigands leg by a swashbuckling version of Two-Face and teaming up the pipe smoking lawman Garrat Jardin to save a witcher woman with ties to nature was a lot of fun...but the way it made Batman seem less unique and something Bruce Wayne was always fated to become just rang wrong to me so it was hard to enjoy as a whole.

[Captain Nostalgia]

I found the annual to be very disappointing. I understand the idea that there are old families in Gotham, but when you have so many of them appearing (in one form or another) centuries ago it just makes me feel like I'm reading Elseworlds "Batman: 1776" story rather than the chapter of an ongoing story set in the main universe.

Some things happen, but most of them feel rather pointless and unlike with regular issues we don't have killer art covering it all up.

I loved the series so far but the annual......well.... annuals don't normally sell much do they, and as a result....

I think DC pretty much green lighted Ram V to engage in writer's self indulgence, because man......that was one dry painful read.