When a Faberge Egg is stolen from the Gotham City museum, Batman is on the case, a case that will take him across time, space, death, and reality...I'm not normally a modern Batman guy and I'm not a Bendis fan either but the premise of this one sounded interesting and Nick Derington's art is great so I gave it a shot. There will be a couple spoilers so read at your own risk.The story itself feels like a bunch of Bob Haney Brave and the Bold issues strung together. Batman teams up with a variety

This was so fun omg!I loved this one! Its pretty much Batman after a faberge egg which Vandal savage also wants and well its Batman vs him across time and space and we see Bruce going after riddler first, then teaming with Green Arrow and then the thing with Hal as they travel to Dinosaur island then in the past to team up with Jonax hex and also Batman goes to Thanagar and Gorilla city which was crazy and fun and his battle with Savage there was so good omg! Plus his team-up with Hal is one of

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Batman hasn’t always been the darkest and more broody superhero of all time. Although he’s taken much more seriously nowadays, he was once a caped crusader who delivered campy humour alongside his trusted sidekick. But, sometimes, if you look in the right places, you’ll find that some creators have offered the world an interesting balance of comedy romps and detective stories (see Batman: The Brave and the Bold). Writer Brian Michael Bendis (Sup...

We need more comics like this!I wasn't sure I wanted to read another Batman story, and I really wasn't all that sure I was going to like Bendis' take on him. And I don't even know why, because I usually like Bendis' comics. Wait. Let me rephrase: I usually like the 1st volume or so of Bendis' comics. He seems (as of recent years) to lose interest in titles kind of quickly, and the later volumes end up seeming a bit phoned in. <--I've got no empirical proof. It's just this almost subconscious rea...

Let’s just get this out of the way: Bendis clearly had leftover jokes from his year and years of writing Spider-Man and was desperate to use them, so he turned the world’s greatest detective into comedy’s lamest defective (hey-oh!) at points throughout this story.That said, this is just good fun. Bendis hasn’t lost his touch when it comes to mixing big, crazy events with quiet moments of entertaining, rat-a-tat dialogue, and Derington’s art is an absolute delight. There are a couple of splash pa...

YES. This is great. This is a Batman book, but in practice Bendis gets to play with a huge part of the DC universe here, from Green Lantern to Jonah Hex to Vandal Savage, and it’s just enormous amounts of fun. This has got to be the best thing he wrote at DC so far, and that’s saying something. And Nick Derington’s art is an absolute delight that radiates the joy and excitement of the story. This is the kind of DC book I’ve always wanted to read. Adding to my Bendis wishlist: a Green Lantern (po...

This was one of the best Batman books in forever. See the thing is, this is light hearted, fun, and has Bruce being AMAZING for once. No but really, this sounds simple enough. Bruce finds a egg, something is in it, and it has magical powers. So on this mission he teams up with Green Arrow, Green Lantern, and Nightwing. He travels through time, into space, underground, and more. This is really a universe adventure and it's SO GODDAMN FUN. Brian Michael Bendis is firing on all cylinders here with

For the most part, I tend to like Bendis. He does entertaining action and his humor works well for many comics from Spiderman to Avengers. Is that particular style suitable for Batman? Well when I saw this hanging out at the comic store, I had to get it to find out.The result is this rather odd volume. The humor gives this a feel of the era of more campy Batman comics. It starts off as a Riddler story. Batman must stop the Riddler, but finds there is more to this than a standard Riddler heist. T...

This was incredibly fun. It's basically Bendis's take on The Brave and the Bold with Batman chasing a macguffin across time and space. Nick Derington's art looks like Mike Allred and Jeff Smith had a baby. It's great and fits the fun tone Bendis has set. One of the best books Bendis has written since moving over to DC.

4.5 stars"And of the seventeen dinner guests you have waiting for you here in stately Wayne Manor there is one lovely woman named Lorelai who is both age- and intellectually-appropriate for you." -- Alfred the butler"There's nothing I can do about that now, Alfred. Serve the appetizer." -- Bruce 'Batman' WayneDid you ever have a bad day at work and something came along to help lessen that 'blah' feeling and lift your spirits? In this instance for me that would be Batman: Universe, which - despit...

Batman and a villain are chasing after a magic egg across space and time - who gonna git it first?! So Bendis’ first Batman book is kinda crap unfortunately. It’s a simple chase story that’s never very interesting and serves as an excuse for Bendis to do a sort of unofficial tour of parts of the DC Universe (hence the subtitle). Watch Batman run through: Gorilla City, Thanagar, Dinosaur Island, and the Old West (it sounds like I’m listing theme park attractions!) while he cosplays in Thanagarian...

You know Bendis is doing something right when I wanted to read this more as the issues came out then the main Batman book. In fact, after reading Tom King's Superman: Up in the Sky, can the two of them just switch places in the books they write? This books was really good and was a fun globetrotting adventure with Batman. Art was very cartoony which worked for the vibe of this book very well. Highly recommend to Batman fans!

SUPER FAST REVIEW:So at first I was liking this... a lot.It has a lot of fun, exciting superhero action. The interaction between characters is pretty well done. There’s also more suspense than I typically expect.Unfortunately the story was just average IMO but then goes off the rails, slightly out of nowhere. It’s like we all of a sudden get in this time travel-y, part-Green Lantern tale but without particularly great execution. Also, the dialogue isn’t great (then again since when was dialogue

Brian Bendis is known for his grim and gritty crime noir tales, and his acclaimed run in Daredevil was along that vein. He had been a fixture in Marvel for so long that it feels so wrong to read any of his current DC work. This reader breaks that embargo with his work on a character that is ostensibly the best fit for him, Batman.Bendis subverts expectation on Batman and gives us a sci-fi detective story that is surprisingly light hearted. The use of so many dialogue boxes has turned his Batman

A pretty fun book! Feels a bit 'Brave and the Bold' at times since there's a lot of teaming up and it takes Batman outside his usual toy box. But it works! Not sure if I'd like a take like this on Batman for an ongoing when Bendis eventually gets a Bat book but for now this is a good addition to his and Batman's catalogue

This is like what a "The Brave and the Bold: The Movie" would be like. Batman teams up with various DC characters to track down a Macguffin that is messing with time and space. The best part about this book is how funny it is. Batman has a really great rapport with all of the characters he teams up with, and they even have an ongoing (and longtime coming, if you ask me) joke about how Batman looks like he is talking to himself when talking to Alfred via communicator.

Maybe Bendis' writing is growing on me. He does give the reader an entertaining, but not a great story. A caper tale with Vandal Savage as the villain? Well, its been awhile since Batman has been in a caper story in his regualr series (i.e. Detective and Batman).

75% | B+ | Great"Uh, did I miss a Bat-family newsletter?"After the Riddler gets his hands on an ancient egg belonging to Jonah Hex, Batman travels across the world to get it from him. However, when it lands in the hands of Vandal Savage, Batman finds himself going through time and across the universe to stop the immortal from obtaining whatever power lies within the eggA self contained adventure with near flawless execution, this story is one heck of a good time. There are jokes and witty bante

*read for YA Reading Challenge 2020*Brian Michael Bendis took this opportunity to get his hands on as many DC characters as possible. I didn't hate it. The conversational dialogue didn't always feel true to form for most Bat-books I've read, but it was what I would have expected from BMB. This was a fairly trippy adventure and I can appreciate coming in to a Batman story and wanted to try something big and different. It's fun, doesn't take itself deadly seriously, and is really well paced. Total...

I'm about the same age as Brian Michael Bendis, and this project seems to invoke the Batman team-ups from The Brave and the Bold that we probably both enjoyed as kids. The plot functions only as an excuse for Batman to wander around the DC Universe in time and space so he can cross paths with a bunch of favorite and obscure characters and locales. Pure nostalgia. Pure indulgence. Pure fun.