The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! 😌
thecommonswings's review against another edition
3.0
I mean surely a central concept like this should make you reevaluate the status quo in your fictional world. And a lot of this does - the story with Bruce Wayne going to the senate to beg for aid for Gotham feels like this sort of shift done properly. But then it’s tagged onto a plot line about some Marilyn Mansonesque pop star called Nick Scratch who is entirely what men in their late forties think the youths are listening to these days. And his plot doesn’t so much as end as just dissipate. So you get a real stylistic lurch from compelling vignettes to the worst excesses of the nineties with things like Azrael’s costume. I mean come on now. This sort of shit is all well and good when you’re ten and drawing your own characters called Ultra Kill Dude but publishing it from one of the big two with no sense of irony? Good Lord no
purplebubblesinmytea's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars
In a story and world building sense, this was a really interesting read and showed all the ways in which the earthquake effected Gotham's inhabitants. However, like I said in my Cataclysm review, there were so many more stories around random individuals, which were interesting to a point, and not enough around characters I actually care about. The stories that did focus on the central characters were gems, though, as were some of the random character stories, and the art was great.
In a story and world building sense, this was a really interesting read and showed all the ways in which the earthquake effected Gotham's inhabitants. However, like I said in my Cataclysm review, there were so many more stories around random individuals, which were interesting to a point, and not enough around characters I actually care about. The stories that did focus on the central characters were gems, though, as were some of the random character stories, and the art was great.
davidareyzaga's review against another edition
3.0
Three and a half stars thanks to private moments between Batman and Nightwing, Batman and Robin (Tim Drake), Bruce and Alfred, and Batman and Joker. Story-wise, it's not as interesting as I had hoped, but I want to read the rest of the saga. However, some of the art is just plain awful.
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