Jason Fabok's art is amazing. John Layman's writing is spectacular. They along with Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo on Batman continue to make Batman shine as the lone bright spot of the new 52.

I enjoyed the Man-Bat storyline, but the Wrath and Emperor Penguin storylines flatlined big-time.3/5

Mostly focused on the Man-Bat, and various other lesser known villains. An okay read. This could have been much better.

Layman, Fabok, and Clarke's Detective Comics continues it's unstoppable run here as we celebrate Detective Comics #900 with an extra-sized main story featuring thousands of Man-Bats as well as the origin of the New 52 Man-Bat, and some little back-up stories that focus on the cops of Gotham City as they deal with the problems these Man-Bats create.The aftermath of issue 19/900 is felt throughout the rest of the volume as Man-Bat gets the back-up stories of the remaining issues all to himself. Th...

(B+) 78% | GoodNotes: Art endows the energy, its peak is at the start, and trouble’s done by doubles: usurper, alter ego and evil counterpart.

I'd give this 3 and a 1/4 stars.It's called the Wrath, but that character isn't really featured for most of the book. This is a very patchy collection of numerous stories.There's more about the Man-Bat, Kirk Langstrom, which is confusing, since Vol. 4 of The Dark Knight has a story arc about Abraham Langstrom (Kirk's father) also Man-Bat! Hmm...turns out even Langstrom's wife gets in on the act, as She-Man-Bat...though they don't actually call her that.Wrath is actually a super rich industri

Pretty good! So in this story Batman fights a villain called Wrath, hes also a billionaire playboy so hes batman gone wrong, hes a bit more military style but it was interesting to see him go to head to head with batman, overall i say this was a great story!

Anybody else feel like they missed something with that beginning? So this is how Man-Bat gets born? Cause he's been in the comics for years already...so I thought y'know...that he was already Man-Bat. When Batwoman introduced the Langstroms to Batman he had no idea who they were.Zsasz-Man-Bat was pretty lame by the way and that character shows up waaay too much. How does Zsasz manage to get out of Arkham all the time? He's just a serial killer and not even a genius! Just put a straight jacket on...

So John Layman understands Batman. He really does. Or, at any rate, he understands the Batman formula. He gets how his villains are meant to work - perverse reflections of Bruce Wayne. He gets how his stories are meant to go - putting "detective" into "Detective Comics" yet again, a feat somewhat unparalleled when you go back and read Tony S. Daniel's work on the series.The Wrath, though. I... I didn't hate it? The art is excellent. The action is fine. I particularly enjoy the Manbat sections, i...

This is one of the better New 52 comics I've come across. Jason Fabok's artwork is very good and Layman's plot is better than some of the dreck that's been masquerading as "good" in the "newer" DC line-up.This one is a story not only of Batman and his conflict with Wrath, but also about Kirk Langstrom (Man-Bat) and his struggles with his serum. There are a few different story arcs in this volume- from the Emperor Penguin story, which wasn't that good, to the Wrath story which was better. The who...

5 starsGlad that Batman was able to stop Wrath. Ogilvy was turned into something very interesting. Wonder what he's going to do now. Also glad Penguin went back to being in charge. RIP cops. Also wonder if we will see Moi again. Was her master Ra's al Ghul?

This really isn't what you could call "good." Mr. Layman (whose credentials are immediate grounds for trepidancy) does at least wrap up the earlier storyline before branching out on his own, but his wrap-up to the lengthyish "Emperor Penguin" story is basically "Batman fought him and lost then fought him and won." Obviously that was going to happen, since that's the typical formula, but Layman doesn't exactly make it engaging. There is a potential for cleverness, sure, with Penguin helping Batma...

John Layman has yet to disappoint me (until his last two issues of this series, that is, but I digress) and his second collected volume for Detective Comics is definitely something I can recommend you buy and store in your library. His collaborative work with two spectacular artists, Jason Fabok and Andy Clarke who illustrated his main stories and backup stories respectively, has easily made his run for this series a visual adventure that continues to enhance your enjoyment page after page.In th...

I was very excited when i bought this book and when i saw the cover i got super excited but after i finished it i was dissapointed.When i first saw the book i thought Batman was going to stop a war but it was nothing a like that

Originally The Wrath was conceived as a version of Bruce Wayne that chose a darker path - someone who allowed hate to consume him and who grew up as a similarly-costumed figure, deciding to gun down cops in misguided revenge for his parents’ deaths. He was actually a compelling character and I’d highly recommend Batman: The Wrath to any Batman fans to find out why for themselves as well as for an entertaining read. Unfortunately, John Layman’s New 52 version of The Wrath is pure dogshit. Here he...

Did not care for this volume. The art work was uniformly good but the story left me with a headache.

I love the man bat, and in this volume it definitely comes to his right. I think he also stood more in flashlights then the other villains that came in this comic. The wrath was very cool but he could be better and more to be scared. But still very cool. The ending pumps you up to read the next volume.

This is quite hard to grade. For a volume entitled "The Wrath", it contained so much more than you'd imagine. A special chapter investigating block 900 and a monstrous outbreak, a singular and random chapter featuring Harper Row, a conclusion to Emperor Penguin's legacy, an origin story for Doctor Langstrom, an apperance by Bane and his newfound nemesis and a short and quick presentation of The Wrath. Damn. That's a lot. Wait, let's not forget this volume's annual issue. That story alone deserve...

Some amazing Batman adventures here; great art and talented writing.Some small issues that detracted from _my _ enjoyment:-- The volume needed a better title. The Wrath was maybe a quarter of the book.-- There was a "New-Villain-Of-The-Month" vibe going on, especially when some of the baddies came out of nowhere and returned into obscurity at the end of an issue.-- Artist fixation on two figures -- lithe-yet-busty women, and high-shoulder-to-waist-ratio men.-- Batman gets 10 seconds off-camera b...

I have to say I wish DC Comics would cut down the amount Batman books one has to follow to keep up with the continuity. So I wish I could say I didn't like this forth volume of the Batman: Detective Comics series. There is a lot to chew on in these issues here. I did really enjoy the narrative being told here from issues #19-24. We enter the story sort of bouncing between the Kirk Langstrom aka Man-Bat mystery, the short rise of the Emperor Penguin's takeover of Gotham crime and the mystery the