Batman: Fortress

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Verdict: 3 aliens have come to Earth looking for the last remnant of Krypton, Kal-El, for revenge against what the Kryptonians did to their planet years ago. Darick Robertson's art (The Boys, Transmetropolitan) is an interesting choice here, but Whitta's story is a really interesting one about legacies and families and responsibility. A title like Batman: Fortress and cover art showing Batman in his Batcave suggests that the story will revolve around a locked down Batman solving crimes from deep within his lair. Natürlich will Bruce herausfinden,was es damit auf sich hat, und schnell stellt sich heraus, dass alles von einem seltsamen außerirdischen Objekt verursacht wird.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Gamer Network Limited, Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom, registered under company number 03882481. The non-human characters always fare better but they aren’t drawn to the best of Robertson’s abilities either. Plus, is there now a rule about what happens to Cyborg in these types of alternate universe stories?The story moves at a remarkably brisk pace and that keeps the energy at a nice high - something I've seen not happening in many such mini's where the company decides to expand them to the more common 12 issues whereas this being a tight-8 actually works for it very well! If I had to guess, I would say the majority of people are not familiar with either Whitta or Tomlin by name. This is most definitely an Elseworlds type story that takes things in a new direction for our usual group of heroes. What makes it slower is Gary Whitta’s verbosity too - if you’re not a fan of reading massive blocks of text on each page, you might want to skip this one.

His solution to their appearance was to hide and hope they leave, thinking he isn’t on earth anymore. A decline in quality is to be expected when an artist has to work on a monthly comic but personally, I find that Robertson’s decline on this series is too steep. If Diego Rodriguez’s colors weren’t so good, many pages in this comic would look downright unprofessional. Superman’s reasoning for not being present for most of the book was the equivalent of hiding under a pile of coats and hoping everything would somehow work out.Just last year Mattson Tomlin found great success with Batman: The Imposter (check out Casper’s review! Starting out as a columnist for the Image Comics preview magazine Image+, Sam also translated the Eisner Award nominated-Beowulf for the publisher. The story takes some leaps at times to get to where it wants to be, but still manages to keep the action and humor at appropriate levels. Now, Clark Kent is free to live his life and, with no Kryptonian defending the planet, humanity is safe while its new protector plans to change the world for the better. Set in an alternate timeline, Earth’s communication and power grids are shut down by a mysterious alien presence.