I'm just going to cut right to the chase.  Was this issue good?  Yes.  Was it as good as the first two parts?  Absolutely not!  Now join me for the breakdowns. This story starts out just as strong as the previous installments.  Gordon and Bullock are following a trail of clues with seemingly no connection,…

Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep.  Why?  I had this issue on my mind and was so concerned with whether or not it was going to be a dud that I tossed and turned for hours.  Ever since I took on this job (19…

This is easily the best issue of Detective Comics that I've read in the last 2 years.  Even if we go beyond comparing it to previous issues from its own title, I'd still go so far as to say that it's in my top 5 pick for best in the last year as well.  What's…

All the Robins are under lock and key with only Grayson at large to save the day.  Will the original Boy Wonder be able to bring down The Court of Owls on his own, or will he need help from an unlikely ally to win the day? Detective Comics #47 is part 3 of "Robin…

The League investigates the homicide of a 200 foot tall eyeball eating alien.  Is this an issue of Detective Comics or an episode of the X-Files? Right from the start, I was happy to see that this issue of Detective Comics actually had some detective work for a change.  However, it only took a few…

This issue of Detective Comics premieres the new creative team of Peter J Tomasi and Marcio Takara.  Are these two up to the challenge of presenting a worthwhile JimBat story?  Will they succeed where others have failed, or is JimBat doomed to be one of the lowest moments in Batman history?  Let's delve in and…

Phoning-it-in is a term in the acting business that describes a performance in which the actors don't give it their all but still complete their required part. Personally, I feel like Manapul and Buccellato were blindsided by this whole robobat thing.  With that in mind, I don't truly blame them for the condition of this final arc. …

This issue started off with a sense of urgency and intensity that made me think I was in for a real ride!  Then I flipped the page and my willing suspension of disbelief was shattered.... The cliffhanger from last issue was Gordon getting out of the Batsuit to engage his 3 assailants head on.  As…

My absolute favorite thing about this issue is that they address the fact that Robobat-Bunny is not superior to the real Batman! They don't actually say it overtly in a conversation between characters, but when you think about what we are being given in the story, it is a subtle way of addressing the matter. …

This issue of Detective Comics is NOT illustrated by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato!!! Usually I save the art talk for the last paragraph in my reviews, but opening this book up and finding out that Fernando Blanco did the art and not Manapul & Buccellato was a huge let down.  For those of you who…

Up to this point, I've genuinely been enjoying the Anarchy story, only to discover in this closing chapter that it was not an Anarchy story at all. As a reader, I feel lied to. It ends up being nothing more than a inventive ruse designed to hide the personal nature of the actual crime at…

The two main questions that are probably on everybody's minds are: is Lonnie dead and does Batman get blamed for it?  I'm going to talk about it, so if you haven't read the issue yet and don't want to know, I suggest you stop now and come back for the discussions after reading.  Exactly like…

I salute Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato for what they are attempting to do here.  I don't typically call out major events from a comic directly in the review, but this is the primary thing I want to talk about, and it deserves to be recognized front and center, and not hidden away behind a…

The creative team of Brian Buccellato and Francis Manapul return to the pages of Detective Comics, and with them comes Anarky! Actually, Anarky only makes one decidedly small appearance in this issue, and remains the mystery figure that our heroes need to uncover.  The two characters that we primarily spend time with are Batman and Harvey…

This is the kind of story I haven't seen since before the New52.  It doesn't have any ulterior motives.  It's not trying to get you hooked into buying some long running arc.  There are no gimmicks or hype.  It isn't planting the seeds for some company wide crossover event.  You don't really even need to…

America is the enemy!  Extremely weighty material for your average comic book fanfare.  If you read comics as a respite from your daily toils, this is not the issue for you.  Usually a comic is a way to slip away from the real world for 20 minutes, to live vicariously through the eyes of another…

Wow...what just happened?  This story just did a 180 - or at least a 160.  This arc started with noir detective work, in a grimmy city filled with murder, drugs, and backstabbing.  Where, you ask, did we end up?  In a city full of explosions with buildings crumbling to the ground!...Pink Powered guys blasting off…

I'm just being blindsided this week with surprises, first in Eternal and now, here as well.  We are faced with new information that makes us re-evaluate a lot of what has transpired up till now. This issue stays fairly strong on the detective front, once again, offering up multiple roads to the same destination as…

In my eyes Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato have captured the quintessential Dark Knight for the New52.  Seeing as how Detective Comics bears the name of the entire publisher empire that is DC Comics I have often wondered why it wasn't given more attention by the editors running DC.  It's no secret that the Batman…