Batman and a villain are chasing after a magic egg across space and time - who gonna git it first?!
So Bendis’ first Batman book is kinda crap unfortunately. It’s a simple chase story that’s never very interesting and serves as an excuse for Bendis to do a sort of unofficial tour of parts of the DC Universe (hence the subtitle).
So Bendis’ first Batman book is kinda crap unfortunately. It’s a simple chase story that’s never very interesting and serves as an excuse for Bendis to do a sort of unofficial tour of parts of the DC Universe (hence the subtitle).
Watch Batman run through: Gorilla City, Thanagar, Dinosaur Island, and the Old West (it sounds like I’m listing theme park attractions!) while he cosplays in Thanagarian battle armour and as a cowboy! In addition to the exotic locations, Batman encounters a myriad of characters like the Riddler, Deathstroke, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Cyborg, Jonah Hex, Nightwing, and the Green Lantern Corps.
All of the above reads like the filler it is - it’s just background stuff forced into the foreground because there’s nothing to the main story. The paper-thin story isn’t exciting to read and ended in the same way the story had been up to that point: consequence-free and safely within the realm of the status quo. It’s a very boring read.
Bendis’ Batman is far too chatty, even discounting the soliloquoy-esque plot summary pages at the start of each issue (really getting to hate those), which only underlines the goofy tone of the book. He writes a good Nightwing though which makes sense because Dick Grayson is the chatty/jokey one, not Bruce Wayne.
Nick Derington’s art is fine in general but it’s not anything I’m crazy about. I liked how he drew group fight scenes like the Riddlers stuff at the start and the Batman/Nightwing team-up though I really hated his polygon-y Batmobile - so ugly!
Too much fan service and too shallow a story, it might be a good one for kids but Batman: Universe didn’t do much for me.
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