This was a great issue of Batman Beyond, with Terry finally starting to pull himself out of the pit that Gotham has both figuratively and literally thrown him in over the past few issues. Rating: 5 out of 5 BATMAN BEYOND: NEO-YEAR #5īatman finally discovers the secret to the Sword of Gotham, and it's a surprisingly "old school" method of controlling the populace. Tomeu Morey's colors are perfection and I don't usually praise lettering but they're dang good here. On every level of story we get great detail and care and Jimenez's art is a chef's kiss, fitting into this frenetic and frantic story beautifully. What follows is a deep dive into Bruce's emotional core as we see him weakened near to breaking as well as the arrival of pretty much the entire Bat-Fam in response to this clearly multi-layered threat. The issue sees Bruce continuing to struggle with what happened with Robin in the previous issue as well as his own crusade as Batman when Failsafe shows up and just starts causing extraordinary chaos. This issue does something that this title rarely does well and that's dig into the core of Batman while also delivering a genuine threat that isn't just a fluffed up version of one of the usual Gotham suspects. Matthew AguilarĬhip Zdarsky's first issue of Batman was not a fluke and Batman #126 more than proves it.
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As things build the series continues to get more complex and more enthralling, but the series hasn't yet maximized its potential, and hopefully Book Three will be the issue to bring it all together. The same goes for one trip into the past later on in the issue, and while I understand what it was going for, it seemed to take the focus away from the main story without much in the way of a satisfying payoff. That's not always the case, as Captain Feldt sets the stage for things to come and retains your interest, but many of the interactions between the crew during the exploration of the vessel aren't nearly as compelling, and I couldn't help but wonder if some of these sequences couldn't have been trimmed.
The same goes for Black Manta, who has some of the strongest scenes here, but like in Book One, the crew and their individual stories bring the pace to a crawl at times. In Book Two Aquaman is a far larger part of the overarching story and the mystery at the heart of it, and artist Christian Ward's rendition of Arthur heightens that mythical aura and creates a sense of presence and importance for the character in every single scene he's in. Writer Ram V has built up an air of mystery and myth around Aquaman, but he just wasn't featured much the first time around. Aquaman: Andromeda #2 brings with it two welcome improvements, including a much larger presence of its title character.