Reviews

Batman: Eternal Omnibus by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley

indeedithappens's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Death, Sexism, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Racism, Self harm, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Cannibalism

kaqueershi's review

3.0

Idk about this one. Some of it was brilliant and some of it was ????? But so much Steph and Harper and I'm not mad at that

subhamroxx's review

4.0

This one was huge and took me quite some time to read.

It starts off with Batman villains getting invitation enter Falcone and Batman facing against him and then things happen, more villains are involved particularly the A-Listers and we see the entrance of Spoiler and Bluebird and the framing of Gordon, the takedown of Alfred, enter Hush, Red hood and Batgirl in Brazil, Tim and Harper dealing with some "nanobot controlling" guy and so much more. Its one thing after another and seems like it will never end.

The mysterious villain

Spoiler

Cluemaster

behind all these attacks and even he is not it, when Bruce's old villains return

Spoiler

Lincoln/Owlman

and things are revealed, its gonna take everything from him to take them down with his family but even then will he come out on top or will he lose more people in the process?

I loved this story and the way its a sprawling saga with so many moving parts and I especially love the way how so many villains are involved especially Bruce's C-list villains and the big role that Cluemaster is given and this leads to the new origin of Spoiler and its perfect. Also great to see Batfam get some spotlights. The way the family comes together to fight and then the villains levelling up is just astonishingly good.

Its one of the best weekly series and the writing is consistent throughout and the pencils particularly by Fabok are so good and detailed. Also Bard was a fun addition. Its one of the best Batman stories ever and the omnibus read just reminded me when i was reading it in single issue a few years back. Just great, good stuff.