It's a pretty well loved run though. I wouldn't be surprised if he at least gets a miniseries or something.

The Icarus arc is when all that begins. That starts with issue #30 and is before the Mech-Batman stuff begins.

It's up and down. Buccaletto is writing it now and he's been focusing on Batman's relationship with the GCPD which is interesting but he's not doing much we haven't seen before. He brought back Montoya which is nice though. I would say check in with it if you like the artist of a particular arc because the writing has…

Seriously, when I got to that moment I just dropped the book and started laughing. Like, if I had to pick a random number to be the number of evil, it'd be 6, right? But no, Johns goes with 3 because Earth-3 and assumes that's just a thing we all are totally on board with, apropos of nothing.

He used to do it a lot in Green Lantern. The Guardians talk about "The Prophecy" for issues at a time without anyone saying anything about what the prophecy entails. It would be months or years before he would cover it and even then, I always got the sneaking suspicion that Johns wasn't so much building tension as…

The most Geoff Johns-ian thing I've read in a while is how everyone starts yelling about "Myrna Black" despite literally no one saying who Myrna Black is. It's up there with Batman saying "Three is the number of evil" and everyone just agreeing, like that's a thing we all know or something.

It's Gordon in Detective Comics and Batgirl. I don't know about Catwoman but I would assume it is.

That's a very true observation. The framing Jock uses when he introduces Bloom almost has him as a ghost in a window or something small and dark just waiting to take over and consume you. It's really effective, especially after the way Capullo has drawn him as this great, unstoppable, uncomprehendable force.

I'd like the current status quo to stick around for a while. It's a neat way to use Gordon, particularly after so much of the New 52 seemed to want to make him a younger character. This actually lets them do something new with that. I'm sure Bruce will be back in the cowl in a year or so but this is a fun aside I'm…

Yeah, Seeley really has a feel for taking Morrison concepts and spinning them into bizarre fun facets that more characters can interact with.

It was an aggressively ok book until the end when he has to fight Lord Death Man which I'm always up for. Other than that, uh, I think he was in the last issue of Batman Eternal. I think everyone probably realized the whole idea was probably a little too much of a good thing.

It depends on how much tolerance you have for Geoff Johns mangling Darkseid and Fourth World stuff. I have a super low tolerance for that.

Yeah, I like the idea of the Court kind of having that "oh crap, things are getting serious" mystique to them every time they appear, like in Endgame but it'll be neat to see how the sidekicks and Grayson deal with them. I think Talon, which had the Court in every issue, still managed to make them feel like these…

It's worth a read. It's certainly not charting unknown territory for Star Wars comics but Rucka does a good job telling a story from the perspective outside of the main cast and Chechetto gives a dark, violent edge to the orbital dogfights. It's a lot of fun if you're a Star Wars fan.

Truth.

I really enjoyed Shattered Empire, even if it felt a little like half a comic. Rucka/Chechetto are behind my favorite Punisher run and Chechetto is one of the few artists I'll buy just about any book for.

Court of Owls is so much fun. It's one of the best pure popcorn Batman stories ever.

I've found it to be a good idea to avoid CBR's comics reviews at all costs.

I thought about this too but yeah, that Duggan issue is really weird and has a genuinely unnerving final page. I need to read that one again.

I read this early this morning when I saw Oliver was tweeting about it. I'm glad I did. Definitely one of this week's best books and really the artistic treat of the week. That's tough for me to say when Checchetto is drawing Star Wars too but Jock killed this issue if for the spread of Batman looking down on Gotham…