Batman Vol 1: The Court of Owls
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4.9 • 19 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
#1 New York Times Best Seller!
Following his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight with the relaunch of Batman, as a part of DC Comics—The New 52!
After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he's sworn to protect. Could the Court of Owls, once thought to be nothing more than an urban legend, be behind the crime and corruption? Or is Bruce Wayne losing his grip on sanity and falling prey to the pressures of his war on crime?
Customer Reviews
Amongst the GOAT(s) of Batman comics.
Scott Snyder’s Batman run for The New 52 was nothing short of fantastic stuff; and its effects have reverberated across multimedia in the years since 2011’s revamping of the greater DC Universe.
Sure maybe some of the obvious subtextual metaphors may be too obvious for some readers’ liking (everybody’s been trying to do that since Alan Moore nailed that with Watchmen), but it isn’t embarrassingly stupid or ham-fisted either. Greg Capullo’s art is like a cross between Todd McFarlane and Bruce Timm, and Scott Snyder’s writing is like Paul Dini’s nigh-scholarly level of self-aware wittiness on all things Batman, and some of the broodiness feels like it takes pages directly from Frank Miller’s iconic Batman stories too.
Batman: The Court of Owls has impacted Batman media everywhere, and it’s even been retconned in some pieces of Batman media making it out that the Owls are now legacy villains in The Dark Knight’s Rogues Gallery. Sure it creates some continuity problems for older stories, but any established character is gonna have a growing roster of baddies that may unintentionally confuse the continuity of years of established mythology.
The Court of Owls is a banger of a debut for a ‘relaunch’ of Batman’s 2011 New 52 run, and it reaffirmed Scott Snyder’s gift as one of the finest writers who’s ever tackled The Caped Crusader.
Fans young and old will find something here that scratches the itch of every diehard BatFan out there looking for something that doesn’t necessarily reinvent the wheel, but gives it the finest polish possible.
What else can be said about this book? It’s awesome stuff.
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Perfect. 10/10