Tom KingBatman: City of Bane

A great ending. Great action and complete heart wrenching moment moments. I am very glad to have finished the year on thus book.Bane has come out of the shadows and is officially the ruler of ruler of Gotham. The Flashpoint Batman (Thomas Wayne) is his lead enforcer. Criminals patrol the street as police officers. Meanwhile Bruce Wayne must rehabilitate both mentally and physically. With the woman who broke his heart. Getting ready for his return, but even when he thinks he has nothing more to lose he does.Tom King masterfully ties up every loose end, explains every intricate detail. Nothing in any of the books in his run was by accident everything had a purpose. Even a story I though was unfinished in the Secret Files #1 is finished here. For a continuity fan like me this was beyond awesome. The book finishes with a day by day account of March and April for Batman. Then some sketch pannels and a gallery of varient covers for #75 to 85.

This book is perfect for those who despise Batman and need the character ruining forever! If you put yourself through the torture of reading this garbage, please follow it up by going back to knightfall, so you can remember when Bane was good.....After reading this I decided to stop buying new comics! Well done DC! 👎👎👎👎👎

It's great =D

Like a previous reviewer wrote, I am a Tom King fan and I too waited to read the entirety of the City of Bane arc in this collection.It is a jumbled, disjointed, meandering mess. I feel like Tom was trying to do his best Grant Morrison impression with an existential, bizarre, nonsensical, meta-verse-multiversity based story and, as it usually does for Grant, it fails miserably.This is not the same writer that wrote "Sheriff of Baghdad", I'm not sure who this is. And, let's be honest, it's been coming for a while now. Knightmares, The Fall and Fallen, they've all been the same fever-dream, hazy, toxin-induced dreamscapes that just aren't moving the character, the narrative, the mythos or anything else forward.It's as though ever since Tom was told he wasn't going to realize his full run he went full Grant-Morrison, as everything since the Cat/Bat wedding has been, in a word, pointless.You never, NEVER, go full Grant-Morrison. We're talking almost 30 full issues of a Batman run that will be completely inconsequential in the future. They won't be referenced, they won't make animated films or live action films from these scripts, no one will talk about these issues as defining the character, or any character involved with Batman. It's incomprehensible what's happened here. Mind-boggling how this went so far off the rails as to finish like this... so, so... pointless.I've never skipped a panel in a previous Tom King book, I skimmed whole chapters of this book.It's that bad.

Die Bewertung bezieht sich nicht auf die Story, es geht hier rein um Druck und Verarbeitung.Leider ist auch der Sammelband von City of Bane wieder auf billigstes ungestrichenes Papier gedruckt.Diesen Kurs fährt DC nun bereits eine ganze Weile und es wirkt auf mich als würde man dem physischen Medium nicht mehr allzu viel Bedeutung widmen.Es macht einfach keinen Spaß die Geschichte zu lesen wenn sie auf so minderwertigem Papier zu sehen ist. Es wird den wirklich großartigen Zeichnungen nicht gerecht.Als würde man Wein aus Plastikbechern trinken...