Batman eternal #1

Just another day in Gotham

The First day on the job is always strange most of the time you’re thrown into fray with no idea of what to do or how to do. All the training you’ve gone through is supposed prepare you to for this moment but does it? Most of the times you’re shit out of luck, maybe on your first day you have to achieve the impossible, or pretend you’re an expert on something you’ve never heard of, or maybe you have to arrest your boss. First days always sucks.

Batman eternal is a weekly series produced by some of the best writers and artists DC has to offer Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Jason Fabok, and Dustin Nguyen to name a few. Are story jumps forward to “The End” showing a beaten and bloodied batman tied up on his own bat-signal, while a mysterious villain narrates saying that he has defeated the batman. Then we jump back to the present as a new officer joins the Gotham P.D, on his first day he sees the Bat, Professor Pyg , and lots of destruction just another day in Gotham.

The Good

Batman eternal is a fast paced balls to the wall book, as if we were thrown into the middle of an action movie with almost no time to take the breath from all the destruction and intense chases. Some of my favorite moments include pigs with machine guns, batman in an armored suit from the court of owls story line, and batman saving one of his best friends. The art is so fluid and it helps with the fast pasted nature of the story. The art is indicative of the DC house style but it is enough of its own thing to keep me interested. As for the writing it is top notch and all the characters fell and sound like they should which makes for a compelling about friendship, mystery, and tragedy. 

 my favorite panel

The Bad

(spoilers!)

I have very few gripes with the book one of my problems is that in one scene Gordon gets arrested because he shot at a suspect who was unarmed and caused trains to crash into each other by hitting the electrical system. The problem I have with this is that they are so quickly to place the blame on Gordon even though there are hundreds of super villains in Gotham and they don’t do any investigation to see if it was Gordon who caused the crash they just assume. Also all the people in the book look to pretty I wish there were more variation in the way the people looked, ugly people wouldn’t hurt. 

The score: 4/5

Batman Eternal is a great start to a new series that sets up a bunch of question for a compelling story. With fluid art and cohesive writing by great writers I’m hooked.