Batman: Rebirth #1 spoilers

[JasonTodd428]

The seasonal metaphor King uses is brilliant....Cyclical redundancy, replacing old with new etc...Brilliant


This new author is taking this to a new, deeper level and it's going to shake off the fans who are a bit, um, peripherally challenged? Is that p.c. enough?

FANTASTIC issue..

That's what I love about King's writing. Its deep, nuanced and layered and he really gets the reader to think. Like I said on the forum somewhere I'd take that kind of writing on Batman over the "most epic cataclysmic event to happen in Gotham ever" rut Snyder dug himself into any day of the week.

[Unfinishedsentenc]

That's what I love about King's writing. Its deep, nuanced and layered and he really gets the reader to think. Like I said on the forum somewhere I'd take that kind of writing on Batman over the "most epic cataclysmic event to happen in Gotham ever" rut Snyder dug himself into any day of the week.

I thought his run was very intellectually stimulating though. It was definitely innovative, and generally full of symbols. And I loved how much thought Snyder put into the villains; I kind of got the feel that he considered them these sinister manifestations of Bruce's fractured psyche, Although, I must say, the major problem I had with his stories was how the bad guys were all basically walking monologues and how they felt more like abstract commentaries on real-life issues rather than actual people with mental problems.

[Pohzee]

I thought his run was very intellectually stimulating though. It was definitely innovative, and generally full of symbols. And I loved how much thought Snyder put into the villains; I kind of got the feel that he considered them these sinister manifestations of Bruce's fractured psyche, Although, I must say, the major problem I had with his stories was how the bad guys were all basically walking monologues and how they felt more like abstract commentaries on real-life issues rather than actual people with mental problems.

Wait, he actually used more villians than just the Joker?

[Atlanta96]

Wait, he actually used more villians than just the Joker?

There was the Parliament of Owls. And Talia al Ghul. And Harper Row

[AlexanderLuthor]

That is what happened with Grayson in some of the bad reviews, All his works have a deeper meaning to them that does not explain it to you in long narration boxes.

Yes, the Future's End issue originally got bad reviews in some places, until others explained the Cluemaster code to them and that the story was told in reverse. I still think that might have been the best issue of the entire N52...and definitely of Future's End. Not sure if many read Vision, but that book is on a level of some of the best comics ever made. King will bring a few layers deep reading experience for people who like that sort of thing

[dan12456]

Yes, the Future's End issue originally got bad reviews in some places, until others explained the Cluemaster code to them and that the story was told in reverse. I still think that might have been the best issue of the entire N52...and definitely of Future's End. Not sure if many read Vision, but that book is on a level of some of the best comics ever made. King will bring a few layers deep reading experience for people who like that sort of thing

Yeah the Future's End is probably my fav single issue in all of comics, definitely my fav one shot. (How some reviews didn't understand it was told in reverse I'll never get, missing the Cluemaster's code I can see maybe, although the second I realized it was a code I immediately went back to search the rest of the issue for it)

[dan12456]

The seasonal metaphor King uses is brilliant....Cyclical redundancy, replacing old with new etc...Brilliant


This new author is taking this to a new, deeper level and it's going to shake off the fans who are a bit, um, peripherally challenged? Is that p.c. enough?

FANTASTIC issue..

Honestly as a fan of King's other work the symbolism in this one felt a bit too on-the-nose for me. It seemed to lack the nuance of his normal stuff. Usually I have to actually think about what King is going for, this felt like he hit me over the head with it.

[protege]

Okay, now that i've read the issue, I'm feel a little better about duke, but the costume is still fugly. And what happened to his parents? Plus does lucious know that bruce is batman ? That high wire act st the behinning should have been a dead giveaway.

[twincast]

And what happened to his parents

Joker Gas.

Plus does lucious know that bruce is batman?

I've lost track of the back and forth on this, but it's usually implied that he does, isn't it?