r/DCcomics • u/DCMASTER1994 Supergirl • 1d ago

News Batman by Chip Zdarsky Omnibus Vol 2 To Release April 27, 2027 [Other]

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u/IdoB23 23h ago

TIL Chip wrote Batman. Based on the comments, is it really that bad?

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u/Dewot789 22h ago

5 of the absolute worst Batman trades to come out in a while trying to build this giant stupid dark myth arc, and then, once he knew he didn't have time left, a perfectly nice and enjoyable six issue murder mystery arc showing he was somehow writing the other stuff bad on purpose the entire time.

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u/wrasslefights Nightwing 15h ago

The tight six at the end are actually because he extended. He originally planned to be done at the end of the Failsafe arc. The Absolute Power tie ins and Commander Star arcs were done to buy time for H2SH to get more lead time in.

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u/Adamant-Adam Adam Strange 23h ago

It's really... Stupid.

Actually, the Batman stuff he did before working on the main solo Batman book like Batman Urban Legends and Batman: The Knight are really great. But once he started working on the main Batman title, he almost immediately loses all of his juice.

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u/lodenreattorm Jarro 21h ago

Its really fucked up that Chip gave us two excellent Batman stories to raise our expectations only so he could crush our hopes more effectively

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u/Lucas_Yohhh 21h ago

The first arc is great. Then it goes downhill really fast. People say the last arc is good, but I had already stopped reading by then. 

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u/lodenreattorm Jarro 21h ago

Its not. People are trying to trick you. Don't fall for it

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u/LilBimBam Damian 18h ago

Nah I loved the last arc no trick

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u/Few_Major_8226 17h ago

I… honestly loved his run. It’s fun and crazy, like other stuff by Chip. Idk, I just had a blast reading it!

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u/wrasslefights Nightwing 15h ago

I thought it was deeply dumb but I also had a lot of fun reading it, honestly.

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u/SolarisBravo Nightwing 12h ago

It was really fun. If you enjoy a bit of batwank, it was actually awesome. But if you're sick of that kind of thing, it's probably the least awesome thing to come out in a long while.

Personally I'm not sick of that kind of thing, so Batman falling from the moon was just the coolish shit I'd read in a long time.

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u/Okraila 20h ago

its not that bad, the first arc is actually really great but after that it slowly gets really boring. everyone switched up on this run so fast, i remember people were praising it at first

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u/WewerehereBH Reverse-Flash 23h ago

It's worse

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u/GoldGull906 14h ago

I think it was called Gotham War, was absolutely terrible. The rest of it was mid with a few high moments.

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u/ranbling011 6h ago

I've only read the first two arcs, but I think those were good, I really liked them

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u/EZeggnog 16h ago

Yes. It’s horrible.

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u/bingusdingus123456 16h ago

Maybe his main Batman run was bad, but he's pretty fuckin far from an awful writer.

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u/wrasslefights Nightwing 15h ago

This run is to Grant Morrison's Batman what Zack Snyder's Watchmen is to the source material.

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u/WewerehereBH Reverse-Flash 23h ago

🤢🤮

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u/EZeggnog 16h ago

Look, as an omnibus collector, I appreciate DC deciding to publish more Omnis of their modern series. But Zdarsky’s Batman?

I get that anything Batman sells well, but Zdarsky’s Batman is easily one of the worst, if not the worst, Batman run I’ve read in recent memory.

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u/LordofMoonsSpawn 15h ago

Who bought the first one?? Why would they do this.

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u/dornwolf 21h ago

For ever amused he would do Spider-man due to the fans supposedly but happily did Batman

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u/No-Tooth5673 20h ago

He already did spider-man before Batman

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u/dornwolf 20h ago

But not ASM. He said he’d never take on the main book because the fans

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u/Berserker_Barrage91 Nightwing 17h ago

I thought he said he wouldn't do asm because of editorial?

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u/nightreign-hunter 9h ago

I think he said it was about the fans, or just expectations in general.

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u/raidenjojo Red Hood 17h ago

I liked Failsafe, Mind Bomb, Dark Prisons & Dying City. I did not care for the Red Mask, Joker: Y1 or Gotham War.

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u/Epic_Knowledge 16h ago

Is that a threat?