5/21/2023 0 Comments Batman superheavy![]() ![]() In part one of Snyder's denouement, he's no doubt purposefully stretched these concepts as far as they will go.Īs far out as Snyder's Batman has swung, it would be easy to dismiss the book as pure silliness within these pages, Snyder has new Batman Jim Gordon almost literally jump over a shark. And with Superheavy, Snyder's Batman has in some respects reached the apex and beyond of what this Batman can be - a Batman who fought the Joker in public view, a Batman whom Gotham City believes gave his life for them, and further, a Batman they've now tried to replace with a gaudy robotic suit. Snyder's Batman fights, in some respects, scarier and more real-world terrors than the Batman who fought macabre terrors in the shadows. In the fourth volume Snyder's Batman achieved a new level of fluorescence and flamboyance, a Batman who operates in the sun. With Zero Year, Snyder reached escape velocity from the grim and gritty of Frank Miller's Batman that pervaded for decades, even into Grant Morrison's run. But somewhere toward the end of Death of the Family, as perhaps the iconography of Snyder's Joker even more so than the story reached ubiquity and the notoriety of this run became something else, so did Snyder's run itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() This all began routinely enough with the exceptional but arguably traditional Night of the Owls books, followed also by the relatively traditional Death of the Family. 8: Superheavy continues the wild, twisting saga of Scott Snyder's Batman. ![]()
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