OK, I don't know how to talk about this without spoilers, so be warned.*Spoiler alert*So, I know there is another volume, but this felt like a finale end to the series in some ways.I have never seen a story like this. I thought it was well done in the way that it takes what has happened from the 1st volume on and weaves them gently into this story. Batman goes back to the court of the owls. The Joker is the most unhinged we have ever seen here. He knows Batman's identity and he has a new serum t...

When Scott Snyder took over Batman, he promised that he would be using the Joker sparingly, reserving the character for his best stories, like Death of The Family and now this, Endgame.Snyder pulled out all the stops for this story arc. How does one top the first two chapters where Batman fights the rest of the Justice League? Most writers can't but a few, like Snyder could and he delivered here.I don't usually follow the Batman books but I was glad to have read the Snyder-guided, weekly series,...

This was just epic. Batman vs Justice League. Then Superman. Only to find he is jokerised. The city is under a big attack and when the Joker unleashes his final attack and targets Gordon and Alfred and attacks Gotham like never before Batman must team up with Batfamily and his villains to stop him and find the mystery of Dionysium. Who will survive? Who will die? How is Joker back and so powerful? Plus what's the endgame? All answered and brilliant story with great writing and the artwork partic...

Intense, scary, gory, disturbing volume of Syder's Batman Run.Best Joker ever after Moore's one and Capullo's art is 5 stars, but (view spoiler)[the "immortal" Joker theory was really crap and (hide spoiler)]Snyder still needs to learn how to write a really great ending.(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

A definite improvement after Volume 6. Snyder loves him some dark, dark Joker.

Even better than volume 3 which makes it by far the best in Snyder/Capullo New 52 series.This is as good as Batman gets.My only problem with this volume is that series didn't end with it.This might seem like strange objection but the ending was so good and fit to end not just New 52 series but entire Batman series overall. Batsy will have to hung his cape one day (because of planed end or loss of public interest) and this was the chance to end it properly.Everything after this will be kind of an...

(Received from Netgalley for review.)Well, this isn't what I'd been hoping for. But actually, I'm not really sure what I'd been hoping for. Seeing that we were having yet another Joker story was making me apprehensive to begin with. Turns out I had good reason to be. The book starts with a half-baked Justice League face off. Joker has somehow managed to dose the entire League with Joker toxin, which was given a half-baked, cursory explanation. Which describes the entire subplot, actually. There

(A-) 81% | Very GoodNotes: Bold, baroque, commanding, and artistically outstanding, but very deus-ex preparedness, and doesn’t stick the landing.

I finally get this. I can't help but feel that Snyder is adding to and creating new Joker mythology in the style of Grant Morrison. It's pretty out there, visceral and bloody, but this acknowledges everything that Joker is and could be. That's the best way I can explain it. He is pure evil. He's maybe more integral to Gotham than Batman himself. This book would not make half the impression it does without the staggering illustrations of Greg Capullo, inks of Danny Miki, and psychedelic colors of...

I think it’s the remarkable art from Greg Capullo that tips this Batman series into classic Batman comics territory. Just top notch. And for Batman fans, the encounter with Joker, his very nemesis, the ultimate villain of all villains, well, to open the curtain on this stage for all the aging Batman aficionados, we have to have the best. So Endgame is Snyder and Capullo’s answer to Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Killing Joke. It falls short of that glory, but it’s in the conversation, not becaus...

Endgame is a fitting conclusion to Snyder and Capullo's Batman ever since they have started writing the New 52 Caped Crusader. This arc imnortalizes Snyder as one of the best Batman writers.There are so many elements in Endgame that I don't really know where to start. Well, it is a Batman vs Joker story but it is way more than that. This is a legendary story, a modern myth and as they put it, an epic drama of comedy and tragedy. Endgame is a masterpiece.I won't spoil anything on who won but to t...

This book calls for a pros and cons list that I shall keep spoiler-free.Pros:• Joker-centered story. Duh. This gal can’t get enough of her Puddin’, even Snyder’s particularly psychopathic version. He’s just a glorious character and I wuvs him!• Amazing artwork. Capullo knows how to make a story like this one vivid, creepy and gritty and I love that so much. He created some truly haunting images, his battle scenes are bloody and grossCons:• That Joker origin story is… not great. It’s interesting

It would have been hard to top Death of the Family for violence and gore, but Endgame does this in spades. This epic battle between Batman and the Joker for the fate of Gotham is a great story. If I said anymore, it would probably be a spoiler so let me just say that it is among the best barn-burningly fast-paced and well-illustrated tales in the Snyder run.

Awesome!

This volume got a little too macguffiny for me. The Joker's found this magic elixir which allows him to heal from pretty much anything? Give me a break.

I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review.This was probably the most intense Batman story since DC rebooted with The New 52! The Joker is clearly the best bat-villain out there, bar none. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo are clearly the best at writing and illustrating Batman, bar none. The intensity ramps up with each page, starting with a battle with the Justice League and ending with, well, I’m not spoiling it. But it’s surprising, it’s intense, and it’s the p...

Everyone’s gotta put their stamp on the Joker, right? Snyder does that and more with an origin story that suggests some serious retconning. Really, this series might as well be called: Batman: Retcon, though, to be fair, 1) a character as old as Bats (and his legendary rogues’ gallery) needs some periodic origin refreshing to stay relevant; and 2) if Stephen Hawking and Marilyn vos Savant procreated (let’s assume for purposes of this incredibly disturbing thought exercise that Hawking is a zombi...

What the fuck just happened here?!Wow. I officially loathe one of Snyder's Batman stories.Alright. I'm well aware that I'm going to be standing out here by myself, but I fucking HATED this. Like, I can't even describe the rage I feel right now. Just pure fury mingled with crushing disappointment.Well, what do you know? I guess could describe it!Maybe Snyder has been the king of the Batverse for so long now, that he's started believing his own hype? I mean, really ?! You may want to have those...

He’s baaaaaaaaaack!What happened to Joker after the epic Death of the Family (nobody believed he really died)? He reveals all in Endgame - and he’s changed. If Joker thought he was Batman’s best friend in Death of the Family, what horrors has he brought with him now that he sees Bats as his enemy? It pains me to say this because I’ve been a big fan of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman run since the start but… Endgame wasn’t very good. I know – a Snyder/Capullo Batman comic featuring the Jok...

actual rating: 3.5 starsMeh.Sure I like it. I was just expecting more. Don't get me wrong though, they did give you more... just not the more I was expecting.I didn't like how the Joker was portayed here.I loved him in Death of the Family.I FELT HIM AS A MORE GROUNDED VILLAIN.The Joker here felt like a cartoon.I just didn't feel it.Full review possibly to follow.