His arrival in Gotham City ignites a chain of events that weigh heavily on Batman. Full of hardboiled narration, the perfect blend of super-heroics and dark, gritty crime, Batman by Ed Brubaker features all the ingredients the award-winning writer has plucked for his legendary Marvel Comics work and his brilliant creator-owned comics.īatman by Ed Brubaker introduces the killer Zeiss who, with his specially-designed goggles, has the capability of memorising the Caped Crusader’s many fighting styles, thereby giving him the edge in combat.

Some of my adoration is nostalgia, sure - I was fourteen when the issues first landed at my local newsagency - but make no mistake, Brubaker’s BATMAN comics are unmissable. Yes, in my mind, it even eclipses the brilliant work being done by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo right now - and that stuff is great. Also why does Batgirl's suit look like it was designed by the Scarecrow? What's with that mouth piece? I only recommend this for huge Batman fans.Įd Brubaker’s BATMAN run in the early 2000’s, alongside Greg Rucka’s stint on DETECTIVE COMICS, rank as my favourite period in Batman comics history. Brubaker's Captain America was excellent. So take a decent story, add in some mediocre art and we have this. It isn't awful.not by any standard, but it has a cartoonish feel to it that I didn't like. The story as a whole isn't bad.but it's also nothing amazing. While there are some other plot lines (Lex Luthor as President The alien storyline, etc) this is basically a story about the Wayne-Moxon connection and the Batman/Zeiss throwdown. Throw in some Cobblepot and a few pages of Deadshot.and don't forget to add a pinch of 'Wayne Family history' into the mix and you have this underwhelming volume. On top of this there is a new villain/bodyguard named Zeiss (very cute.you see there was once a Carl Zeiss who made scopes for rifles and to this day Zeiss scopes are some of the best out there) who can 'record' moves and then use that to counter them (think Taskmaster from Marvel). It seems the Moxon's and the Wayne family are connected from the past.

So the entire run is a Batman story that revolves around an old Gotham criminal boss named Moxon.

This volume collects Batman #582-586,591-597 and Batman: Our Worlds at War #1. So Ed Brubaker, whom I know from Cap America writing, apparently also wrote some Batman stories.