Batman: The Black Mirror

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The Dealer outs him immediately and reveals that he's sabotaged the gas mask, commanding his followers to tear Batman apart while he's subjected to hallucinogenic nerve gas. My friend Hulk-boy wants me to read this so that I will quit giving my boyfriend Batman 2 and 3 stars. So far, I really liked Scott Snyder's other Batman stories (The Court of Owls and The City of Owls), I was almost 100% sure I was going to like this one. James runs outside to escape, but his father shoots him in the legs and then stops him from jumping off a bridge.

Loved him having to handle most of this story by himself, save for Red Robin helping just a tad bit. I was really what taken aback having a new Batman missed the whole storyline, but then again there are too many comics to keep up with the storyline. In "The Black Mirror," a series of brutal murders pushes Batman's detective skills to the limit and forces him to confront one of Gotham City's oldest evils.I don't want to go into spoilers (Despite being older comic) but the last three issues left me glued to the page and heart thumping like crazy. Drawn again in brutal, chaotic shades of light and dark by the incredible Jock, Black Mirror is another noir classic in the reimagined Batman story.

Francesco Francavilla’s art by contrast is more clean and traditional, yet his use of light is unusual and superbly dramatic.

Dick Grayson is the Cape Crusader in this version and Bruce Wayne is off recruiting other Batmen to be placed around the world. Jock's art and illustrations of Dick gliding across pages or diving into places remind you that this is the Robin we all love and who is now all grown-up and yet someone who remains as an adventurous aviator who longs for freedom and can only achieve it when he's flying over the dark city he is bound to serve.

It's actually reminiscent of Brubaker's run on Captain America (at least the early, good parts) - the writing is lyrical, and weaves the main characters' past with the present action so that you're getting a grand tale with echoes (like in our own lives - at least the constant echoes of early life experiences).

as he is a new character that I had never read about before, but Scott Snyder did a brilliant job at making him extremely creepy as you do not really know his true motives and yet, he can act so innocent at the drop of a hat. Batman infiltrates the Mirror House with Oracle's help, a moving location the Dealer uses to hold his macabre auctions.