The seventh volume of the relaunched Detective Comics title is an interesting assortment of Batman tales, highlighted by the New 52 update of Anarky. The book opens with a two-part story dealing with a plane crashing into Gotham Terminal. With everyone on board in a state of rapid decomposition, a global terrorist revels himself as the mastermind of an organic virus that will soon spread across the city. As Batman battles the madman, he must also locate the antidote for the virus before it consu...

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Detective Comics: Anarky picks up where the previous volume left off and collecting the next five issues (Detective Comics #35–40) of the 2011 on-going series with Detective Comic: Endgame and Detective Comics: Futures End and covers four stories: "Terminal", "Anarky", "The Beginning...", and "Anniversary"."Terminal" is a two-issue storyline (Detective Comics #35–36) has Bruce Wayne being convinced by Alfred Pennyworth to take a short break from Batman encounters an airplane arriving at Gotham C...

3 and a half stars * Overall a good read. The first story was the best and honestly most scary, terrorism and such. The anarky storyline was okay and the final two issues were from two different crossovers, so it felt a little thrown together. I enjoyed this more than the previous volume, Some good stories in here. Solid Batman book.I received an advanced copy of this from NetGalley.com and the publisher

Uniformly strong art and mostly good stories. Percy's story was good but could've been better if he'd had more time. The main story was good, if a bit telegraphed.

3.5 StarsSo this volume started out with a story involving a terrorist plot based around a virus that ages people prematurely. Not bad, but a lot was left unexplained.The main story was the introduction of New 52 Anarky. Very different from the original Anarky and not who'd you'd expect. This story also features the more vicious Mad Hatter. Overall not bad, the art was okay but wasn't my personal favorite. Overall a solid Batman arc but not one near the top of the chain.

I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review.This book compiled several story arcs, and was hit-and-miss. Batman is supposed to be the World's Greatest Detective, but he didn't do much detecting at all in this book.In the first arc, "Terminal", Batman and the Gotham International Airport security chief deal with a deadly biological attack. This one had a lot of potential, the artwork was perfectly dark, and it ultimately just fizzled out. In tracking leads, Batma...

[Read as single issues]I will admit a complete bias for Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato's artwork. They could draw a completely dialogueless comic and I'd still love it. Their run on Detective Comics comes to an end with this storyline, introducing a second Anarky as well as bringing in the Mad Hatter on the periphery too.The story itself is only four issues, and feels wrapped up a little too quickly. Anarky never really gets fleshed out as a person, more as a movement, and the Harvey Bullo...

I couldn't believe how quickly the airplane story that started this book ended. Weird.

I've got to say I'm glad I read this after I did my plane trips, because the first couple collected issues here would have upped my stress levels with the amount of time spent in airports. The art and story build up surprisingly good tension as a plan full of dead lands and sparks a quarantine at Gotham Airport, with Batman not immune. I was very pleasantly surprised with these issues. The main story, focusing on Anarky, wasn't quite as interesting. Jettisoning most of Anarky's Pre-52 history (w...

(B) 75% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: Strong for a minute, and so are its images, but sadly diminishes to nothingness finishes: served wilted like spinach is.

I like that there was some mystery to this book, because that has been sorely lacking in Batman books lately. That being said, there was an excess amount of violence and blood that seriously detracted from the story.

Not bad; main storyline seems to rely too much on things kept from the reader, but then again, I have liked similar stories when I have been on the knowledgeable side of things.Good Future's End (finally!) team-up of Batman and Riddler.

This had a chance to be an all time great Batman story. There is a cliff hanger at the end of issue 37 that had the explored it would have taken the best of Law & Order's "ripped from the headlines" style of storytelling and also examined the idea of vigilante justice in the cell phone camera era. It is a real missed opportunity that I wish DC had been brave enough to pursue.As a grown up who reads comics I want to know what it means to be a violent vigilante in the modern, police brutality era

Alright this how my list goes for Batman creative teams: Scott Synder & Greg Capullo are clearly number one, then Peter Tomasi & Patrick Gleeson at second and I am now adding Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato. The last volume by the latter team was pretty good. What always captures me with this team is how great the quality is concerning the artwork. This volume has beautifully drawn panels. The action is staged flawlessly. I love the mood I get when I read the stories by this team. Gotham is a...

The holly jolly holidays have arrived in Gotham which of course means nowt to Batman or his rogues gallery! Mad Hatter’s off his meds and raving about Alice once more surrounded by children’s skulls, and Anarky’s returned to blow up Wayne Tower. Merry Christmas, Dark Knight! Nope. Another bad Batman book! Sigh… Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato’s main Anarky story is boring and pointless. Anarky wants something, there’s a dreary mystery involving Mad Hatter, and you know Batman’s gonna stop t...

This volume contains 4 separate stories. The first by Benjamin Percy and John Paul Leon. The story was pretty good and different for a Batman story. However, I didn't care for Dick Grayson's characterization as they show him torturing a captive by pulling out their teeth with a pair of pliers. I'm really surprised that made it past the editors. Maybe they didn't notice because John Paul Leon's dark, muddy artwork makes it difficult to make out any details in a panel.The main story featured a new...

Four stories are collected in this volume. DETECTIVE COMICS #35-36 is a two part story called Terminal. I like this story the best of those in this book. It takes place in the Gotham Airport Terminal as a terrorist unleashes a biological weapon and the whole place is put on lockdown. The art in this story is dark, grim, and depressing looking; it really lends itself well to the story being told and adds to the atmosphere. My favorite character Dick Grayson also has a part in this too, as he help...

It's been a while since I've read Detective Comics, so I was excited to get back into them. And it's fascinating that the current villain is Anarky! But wait - is that Dick Grayson torturing someone? I know he's a spy now, but WTF? I guess I'll get more when I read Grayson. The first story in the book was a standalone. And an interesting one. It went kind of fast - I was expecting it go longer. And Dick was, well, the biggest takeaway from this Batman story was this isn't your father's Dick Gray...