A review by carleeiigh
Batman Eternal, Volume 1 (the New 52) by Scott Snyder, Tim Seeley
4.0
Well that was A LOT but honestly juggled it well imo
Some stories (Harper Row/Tim, Batwing/some demonology guy) are definitely not as interesting, but I always liked big scale gang war-type stories. Very obvious who is eventually going to be "revealed" to be evil, but I was definitely surprised who ended up pulling all the strings. Unfortunate that Dick and Damian are thought dead during a story where ALL the batfam is involved
Now so I can keep track of everything, some notes. Spoilers:
-- Falcone returns to gotham and starts a gang war with Penguin. they are both arrested.
- Jim Gordon was framed for causing a massive train accident. He is in prison. Batman has evidence to prove he was framed, but Jason Bard has it so Jimmy's staying in prison for a while
-- Jason Bard is new cop in town who is just Too Good to Be True. Revealed to work for Hush after he is instated as Commissioner
-- Batwing has DLC side adventure with with another guy named Jim in demonology. They have a fun spookhouse walkthrough Arkham before getting dissolved in a Wall. Unresolved
-- Barbara is pissed her Dad is framed. Her and Jason (who is cool with the family for some reason) go to Brazil and find evidence to clear Gordon. Batwoman is there. They also bust up a child trafficking ring, there are some nice Jason and Babs moments
-- Tim and Harper Row (who comes off as annoying unfortunately) are looking for something from Mr Morro in Tokyo. Not sure how this applies to the gang war
-- Stephanie Brown finds out her Dad is Cluemaster again, working for Falcone. no one listens to her online rants about Cluemaster being back so she becomes Spoiler. Cool costume, lame name
Some stories (Harper Row/Tim, Batwing/some demonology guy) are definitely not as interesting, but I always liked big scale gang war-type stories. Very obvious who is eventually going to be "revealed" to be evil, but I was definitely surprised who ended up pulling all the strings. Unfortunate that Dick and Damian are thought dead during a story where ALL the batfam is involved
Now so I can keep track of everything, some notes. Spoilers:
-- Falcone returns to gotham and starts a gang war with Penguin. they are both arrested.
- Jim Gordon was framed for causing a massive train accident. He is in prison. Batman has evidence to prove he was framed, but Jason Bard has it so Jimmy's staying in prison for a while
-- Jason Bard is new cop in town who is just Too Good to Be True. Revealed to work for Hush after he is instated as Commissioner
-- Batwing has DLC side adventure with with another guy named Jim in demonology. They have a fun spookhouse walkthrough Arkham before getting dissolved in a Wall. Unresolved
-- Barbara is pissed her Dad is framed. Her and Jason (who is cool with the family for some reason) go to Brazil and find evidence to clear Gordon. Batwoman is there. They also bust up a child trafficking ring, there are some nice Jason and Babs moments
-- Tim and Harper Row (who comes off as annoying unfortunately) are looking for something from Mr Morro in Tokyo. Not sure how this applies to the gang war
-- Stephanie Brown finds out her Dad is Cluemaster again, working for Falcone. no one listens to her online rants about Cluemaster being back so she becomes Spoiler. Cool costume, lame name