Batman #5

i agree. snyder is got but a little bit overrated i hope he won't become like geoff johns

Finally, a decent review. 

I think this is still a good issue by itself, but you're right about the lack of plot development and Batman's all too quick turn to madness. Great review.

QFT

@daredevil21134 said:

QFT

@lemontron said:

I think this is still a good issue by itself, but you're right about the lack of plot development and Batman's all too quick turn to madness. Great review.

@mbembet said:

i agree. snyder is got but a little bit overrated i hope he won't become like geoff johns

@FadeToBlackBolt said:

Finally, a decent review.

Thanks for all the recommendations guys.

Why is tim drake not considered a part of the bat family? he appeared at issue 1 he should've been included on this story arc. boo!

yeah have to agree with entropy_aegis on the point of this not being a revolutionary Bat-story however I will give it a slightly higher score (4/5) for the way in which it was portrayed. 95% of the issue being just Batman wandering through the maze gave the issue a feel of hopelessness and isolation that I don't think RIP or others did as those arcs dealt with Batman having an enemy on the page rather than being alone.

however I will get on all of you for downplaying the significance of the physical and mental fatigue this issue shows Batman going through. @lemontron commented that Batman's turn to madness was too quick. HE'S BEEN WITHOUT FOOD FOR 8 DAYS ALONE IN A PITCH BLACK MAZE WITH SUDDEN MOMENTS OF INTENSE BRIGHT LIGHT AND MOST LIKELY ONLY DRUGGED WATER TO DRINK. The human body can go around 3-5 days without water and longer without food as long as water is available, but at this point Batman is basically being starved to death because all the water in the world won't keep the human body running more than a week or so. The fact that he's still active and not exhausted in a corner is a testament to how the character is portrayed but he's still suffering extreme malnutrition at this point. Add in the fact that he's mostly in a pitch black maze (@entropy_aegis take note of this, the maze is always dark except for the white rooms so he had to go back into the dark anyways to try and get out of the maze) with little to no sense of direction or depth and is at random times assaulted by intense light and constant repetition on themes and ideas and any of you calling out his "all too quick turn to madness" are kidding yourselves about what your own bodies could take. In a real situation such as this I would give most people, including myself, 3 maybe 4 days before we were in worse shape physically and mentally than what Batman is portrayed as here.

@ltbrd: Good thing Batman is'nt a normal human,he has seen and been through A LOT WORSE.Normal people would call it hell,Batman calls it Tuesday.

Did anybody else have some upside down pages in their copy?

@lemontron said:

I think this is still a good issue by itself, but you're right about the lack of plot development and Batman's all too quick turn to madness. Great review.

I think this was an amazing issue. Are the specific elements new? Hell no, no ideas original though. All boils down to execution. And imo Snyder/Capullo executed things as well as you possibly can. Also Capullo's Layouts and art kicked this one up a notch. I also don't think Bruce's "madness" was quick. He's been in this maze/drugged up for a week and a day. That's nothing to take lightly.

---"and then he goes around telling us he's unstoppable and that he knows everything about Gotham and that's why he'll stomp the Court BLAH,BLAH"

Its called DENIAL - That's the entire point - Batman admitting that He may not own/know Gotham as he thought - they are breaking him mentally and not just with drugs.