(A-) 83% | Very GoodNotes: It's Gotham in lush, dystopian splendor: a wild, malignant overgrowth, prophetic of monsters and madness to come.

The Riddler never has been better! This collected edition features #25-27, 29-33 from the comic book “Batman”.Creative Team:Writers: Scott Snyder & James Tynion IVIllustrators: Greg Capullo & Andy Clarke WHAT HAPPENED WITH ISSUE #28? First of all, if you care to read the explanation of what comic book issues are collected in this edition, you may found odd that issue #28 is missing, but as I already explained in the review of previous volume, you will find that issue #28 in the Volume #6

4.5 starsOrigin of the Giant Penny!Ok, maybe nobody else cared, but I thought it was cool of Snyder to give that massive Penny that Bruce keeps in the Batcave, a fresh start.Dear Mr. Snyder,Could you do the Dinosaur next?Sincerely,AnneThis is the second arc of Zero Year, which is Snyder's New 52 origin story for Batman.It's not as dark as some of the previous origins, but it's not exactly light and fluffy, either.This is a younger version of the Dark Knight. He's fallible, relatively inexperienc...

Okay, I'm a little behind on this series. But it remains strong. It's the continuation of the origin story from the last volume, and it features the best Riddler story I have ever read, with an assist by a really creepy Dr. Death. It's got a lot of Batman history in it, and is a kind of Batman love letter to Gotham, in a way, in that he gloomily chooses the city over any possible woman. The writing is strong throughout, as it has been i previous volumes, but the art from Capullo in this volume s...

Wow. This really impressed me. I've been reading so many crappy graphic novels lately that I was starting to feel like I was being too picky, especially when I wasn't agreeing with any friends on here, but I don't think the problem is me. Heh. Honestly I just think that I was making bad choices. Hard to go wrong with Batman though! We get another origin story here and I'll honestly say I thought this was going to be mediocre at best since I wasn't really a fan of the Zero Year stuff, but this...

★★★1/2While it's a bit uneven, silly and confusing at times (where the hell did the Bat-Blimp come from?), and doesn't flow as well as I would have liked, there are some really good ideas in this sequel to Zero Year - Secret City, which is Scott Snyder's take on the introduction of Batman to Gotham City. There's a nifty little Dark Knight Rises-style idea with Batman struggling to save a slightly dystopian Gotham taken over by The Riddler, all while in a soiled t-shirt, army pants, and cowl, rid...

Reading this was such an incredible and cinematic experience! The art, the story and everything literally made it seem as though I was watching a movie because it all felt so real and everything worked so well! This story gave me dark knight rises vibes and I loved it! The riddler is such a fantastic villain and the art colour scheme seemed to really fit with the riddler's aesthetic. The relationships between the characters and the dialogue was so real and it literally gave me many emotions (esp...

Reading this is a little bit that first time you engaged in the time-honored art of lovemaking. You were pretty excited about it going in, and you were reasonably sure you enjoyed it once you’d finished, but you didn’t really know what was going on when you were in the middle of it—you were really just holding on trying to keep up—and when it was over, you couldn’t really make heads or tails of it (in part, perhaps, because, for a brief period of time, heads were tails, and vice versa). Still, y...

A two-parts more than good and original alternate origin tale about another classic bat-enemy, and the horrific part introducing Doctor Death's modern incarnation was great too.Snyder & Capullo's Batman reminds me a lot Nolan's cinematographic one... I can hear Hans Zimmer's theme in my mind while reading climax scenes! :D'Nuff said.

Wow! This was a great story.Batman is run all over the place and the Riddler really gets the best of him here in many ways until the end. We start out with a scientist who has found a way to make bones keep growing so that people die a tangled mass of bones. It is very gruesome. Batman has to find and stop the riddler, but by the time he catches up to the plan, the Riddler takes over Gotham much like the Dark Knight Returns. Batman doesn't have all his tech gadgets, but here he and Jim Gordon ge...

Remember Jim Carrey in Batman Forever? I don’t think Riddler has ever recovered - until now. Scott Snyder writes what has to be Riddler’s best book ever in this final part to the epic Zero Year storyline. The Red Hood gang has been dealt with but before Batman has a chance to catch his breath, the Riddler has taken the city hostage by taking away its power and plunging it into darkness. He’s also enlisted the help of Dr Karl Helfern aka Dr Death, whose bone research has gotten a bit out of contr...

Zero Year could have been rightfully called as Gotham and everything would be just the same. But Zero Year has a more nice ring to it, a sort of nod to Frank Miller's more grounded and brutal Year One (and still the definitive Batman origin story).Snyder, in his exceptionally well-written Batman arcs, always has a thesis in mind as the foundation and works the way up in the most amazing ways to deliver a montage of memorable Bat stories. In Zero Year, aside from a modern retelling of Batman's or...

Zero Year had its share of downs. The first three issues (Secret City) challenged Snyder and co. to set up important pieces before they go in motion for the next installments, often favoring emotionally-nuanced characterizations than action-oriented sequences to tell the story, which eventually paid off when Dark City's issues #24 and #25 rolled around because these two are definitely the best of the series for me because all that build-up I witnessed on the first three arcs was realized in thei...

The Riddler is one crazy son of a bitch and he is doing so damn cool, yo! So I'm glad Batman gives the Riddler the boot this time.On the other hand, it's nice to see the young Bruce Wayne dealing with his issues and struggling to find his way to beat the Riddler when Gotham is in a black out, etc still Batman and Gordon's heart to heart really isn't my thing. It's uncool. LolI like that young Thomas makes an appearance, yo!Plus I'll admit it, it's refreshing to not having to see The Joker and hi...

Fucking. Gorgeous. Art. Even if Snyder was one of those writers who thought they had to explain everything (or someone who doesn't say their dialogue out loud as they're writing it), the pages would be worth a look just for the composition, the cinematic eye or the colours.You know how some comics look like a clown sneeze, they're so garishly overdone with the whole colour spectrum? Well it sure makes me admire the shit out of anyone who can dabble the whole palette and come away looking...elega...