3.5 starsI would have preferred a long story arc, but dreams don't always come true. This is a bunch of leftover stories from random times and places.Yeah, I know... Suck it up, Buttercup! I will say that they were all consistently good, even if the timelines were all over the map.It starts off with a prequel to Zero Year that was maybe not necessary, but interesting anyway. It showed Bruce trying to clean up the city before he put on the mask.Also included was a look at Tim, Jason, Dick, & Barb...

This is a collection of single issue stories. They are all over the timeline and you just have to jump into them. The Red Hood is in one of them. Superman makes an appearance in one of them. Catwoman appears to be in some future storyline possibly. I think it's strange, but one of them is set in Arkham Asylum and Batman is testing how easy it would be to get out. I have a hard time believing that Batman would not be paranoid of being trapped and locked up, but it made for a good story. It also i...

I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review.Pretty good mash-up of early New-52/Zero Year Batman stories set shortly after the death of his son, Damian. A couple of the stories deal directly with Bruce's psyche and his dealing with the loss and mourning, including a set with Superman helping out. A highlight in this volume is the "new" origin story of Clayface, and his new powers, which take a B-list villain and elevate him to something of a large conundrum for

3.5 but not good enough to round it up.I'm almost upset to have given my first rating lower then a 4 for this batman run by Scott Snyder, this is probably my favorite running series, so I hope you feel my pain. I meanthis book wasn't bad, in fact alot of the stories in this are very good, its just so incoherent and all over the f'n place, it doesn't know where it wants to go and for that and the very strange second and third issue I had to give it a 3.5. Is this book bad ? no its good enough, bu...

(B+) 77% | GoodNotes: More or less a hill of beans (B-side tracks, deleted scenes): very few substantial, true, but deftly drawn and clever too.

Holy good book, Batman! This TPB collects “Batman” #0, #18-20, #28, #34 and Annual #2, which they are stand-alone stories in the middle of the long arcs developed in previous TPBs.Due the nature of this TPB, I will review its stories as in an anthology, giving rates to each story, and an average sum of them as the general rating to the book. BRIGHT NEW YESTERDAY Rating: ***** ( 5 stars )Writer: Scott SnyderIllustrator: Greg Capullo What was once old… …will be new again. Six years back, wh

Bon Jovi’s Keep the Faith is a wildly underrated album that contains not only popular rock radio and concert staples like the title track and Bed of Roses (unquestionably one of the top five power ballads of all time), but also a slew of killer deep cuts, from the searing optimism of I Believe to the long-form storytelling of Dry County to the deft balladry of In These Arms and I Want You. That said, it also has a few filler tracks, most notably If I Was Your Mother. Graveyard Shift is the If I

3,5 stars.A good collection of random nice dark knight stories, but I'm afraid you really need to read every Batman series to fully appreciate all of them.

This is kind of the mixed nuts version of Scott Snyder’s Batman with several mostly stand-alone stories from various points of his run on the title pulled together. If you aren’t familiar with the revamped history courtesy of the New 52 and Damian Wayne getting killed (And being a Robin is seeming more and more like being a Spinal Tap drummer.) then these may not make a lot of sense to you because they’re just moments that occur during events like the Zero Hour storyline.If you have been keeping...

Most of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s acclaimed Batman run has been one event story after another: The Court of Owls, Death of the Family, Zero Year, and Endgame. But there have been a few random issues appearing in between the arcs to give readers a bit of a breather before launching into the next one – those are collected in this volume, the generically-titled Graveyard Shift. And, like many short story collections, it’s an uneven mix of quality. First off: Snyder and Capullo’s contributions...

I took a hiatus for some reason—both Marvel and DC superhero burnout, maybe?—but jumped back on this train at volume 6, which. . . is not encouraging, since it's a bunch of random one-offs that got shoved into the series with inside refs to some series I don’t usually know. Now don’t get me wrong, Snyder and Capullo are good, this is a classic, historic Batman run, but these comics are not really in this run. These issues are collectible, it’s just that they don’t advance the central arcs of the...

A bunch of stand alone stories collected together into one volume. Snyder has written or at least developed the stories for all of these issues.

(Received from Netgalley for review)This is kind of a mixed bag of odds and ends. Some of these stories are set during Zero Year, some are set after Damian's death. Looking at the issue listing, it's obvious that these really are just leftover issues between storylines. That isn't necessarily a complaint. Not everything needs to be an enormous, year-long storyline.Usually, that might mean that the quality of the individual issues varies. And actually, they don't really. All of the stories are ve...

Kind of like in Night of the Owls, this volume is a compilation of various Zero Year stories including how Batman deals with the death of Damien. It is interesting and well-illustrated, but I preferred the volumes which had a single running storyline. That being said, it is still highly readable and a real page turner.

For a volume that's a grab bag of leftover stories not in storyline events, this is high quality stuff.Snyder and Capullo are so good on this title, even their cast offs are better than 80% of the other people out there.Stuff about Red Hood Gang, the early appearances of Dick, Jason and Tim; some Arkham stuff, Gordon, Clayface, and Superman going on patrol with Bats after the death of Damian. Also Alfred and Bruce remember Damian together.The feels come hard in the last few ones I mention...Clar...

A lot of Batman tales from beginnings up to the Batman Eternal run. I liked the Arkham Asylum the most as it introduced people actually working there who were not necessarily security guards nor high profile doctors.Great artwork as usual. MY GRADE: B to B plus.

The previous Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Batman trades collected whole arcs, so I was wondering how DC was going to collect the one-shots and the short arcs. Graveyard Shift is the answer to the hypothetical question and it's a hodgepodge of stories written directly by Snyder or co-plotted. If these stories were included in any of the previous collections to pad the page count it would have not meshed well with the main story. As part of its own collection, it's an excellent sampler of this ex...

Some of the stories are good so far!Rating: 3.7 stars.

Vol.6 = A bunch of individual stories compiled.I honestly couldn't say that any one of the stories could be considered a favorite, but they were thrilling nonetheless. The struggles Batman had coping up with the lost of his son was a good read, and brought an emotion side to the ever-so-serious Batman. It's good that Snyder decided to show that Batman does have emotions, but hopefully it wouldn't be over abundant in the next volumes. I wouldn't want Batman to turn into a drama series.Compared to...

Better than I expected. I put off buying this because it looked like it was made up of issues they couldn't be bothered to put in the other volumes. But it flowed better than I thought it would. There's a good collection of artists in here, and the supporting character Harper (who Snyder and DC are slowly pushing) gets some panel time. I thought it'd be a throw away volume, but it's not. It's what happens between the big stories (although I don't get why the 0 issue is in here and not the first