[World of Bats] Batman by Tom King -- "Uneasy Alliances"

[Jay_Kay]

If you’re just joining us, you can check out our previous looks at the Tom King run on Batman:

[World of Bats] I Am Gotham

Hello again to another installment of World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! This week we’re going to read “I Am Gotham,” the first six-issue arc of the (in)famous Tom King run of Batman, with art by David Finch and Ivan Reis! [image] Here are the links for this week’s reading:

Summary

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[World of Bats] Batman Vol 3 #9-15 & Annual #2 "I Am Suicide/Rooftops & Date Nights/Last Rites"

[wob bat_cat] Welcome to another installment of the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! This week, in anticipation of the Batman/Catwoman maxi-series by Tom King and Clay Mann coming out this coming Tuesday, we’ll be going back to the Tom King run of Batman and exploring a few stories more explicitly focused on that relationship. First, issues #9-13, “I Am Suicide,” with art by Mikal Janin. Batman has always been crazy…but this? This is suicide! In order to retrieve Psycho-Pirate and save …

[World of Bats] Batman Vol 3 #16-20 "I Am Bane"

Hello and Welcome to the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! This week we’re continuing our look at the (in)famous Tom King run by closing out his “I Am” trilogy, looking at “I Am Bane,” issues #16-20, with art by David Finch! [image] Links can be found down here: Batman #16 Batman #17 Batman #18 Batman #19 Batman #20 Reading will run from 2021-11-06T05:00:00Z (UTC) → 2021-11-12T06:00:00Z (UTC), but if you find yourself trapped in the depths of Arkham Asylum to protect yourself from …

[World of Bats] The Button & The Proposal

Hello Gothamites and welcome to the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! This week we’re going to continue our look at the Tom King run of Batman at a very pivotal moment! [wob button proposal] First we’ll be reading the crossover between Batman and The Flash, issues #21-22, “The Button,” written by King with Joshua Williamson, and art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter. Batman & The Flash must work together to battle Reverse Flash & discover the origin of the strange button that points to a…

[World of Bats] The War of Jokes and Riddles

Hello and welcome to the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! This past month we’ve been in the strange and sometimes frightening world that is the Nineties, so let’s take a look at a more modern run that we haven’t looked at in a while, and that’s the Tom King run in Batman #25-32, “The War of Jokes and Riddles,” with art by Mikal Janin and Clay Mann. [image] Here are the links to the issues: Batman #25 Batman #26 Batman #27 Batman #28 Batman #29 Batman #30 Batman #31 Batman #32 I…

[World of Bats] Poison Ivy Spotlight!

[wob poison ivy spotlight] Hello and welcome back to the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! This week, with Earth Day coming up, who better to talk about than one of Batman’s most eco-friendly super-villains, Poison Ivy? So to highlight this character, we’ll be exploring two different stories with her. First, we’ll be jumping a little forward in our exploration of Tom King’s Batman run (don’t worry, we’ll be going back and filling in the gaps later!) and reading Batman #41-43, “Everyone Lo…

[World of Bats] Tom King Catch Up! Batman #39-40, 44-53 "Bride Or Burglar"

Hello and Welcome to the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! For the next two weeks, we’ll be heading back to the Tom King run of Batman and reading up to and the immediate aftermath of the infamous wedding of Batman and Catwoman, with guest stars like Wonder Woman (fitting, since King’s first issue of WW came out this past week), Booster Gold and more! Of course, these are written by Tom King, with art by Joelle Jones, Tony Daniel, Lee Weeks, and…so, so, so many artists for issue 50. [imag…

[World of Bats] CASEFILE 012: Batman/Catwoman

Hello and Welcome to the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club! And welcome to another CASEFILE, where we tackle larger stories that would be too big for our traditional weekly readings. So for this month of December, with Christmas looming over us like an avenging creature of the night, I thought it might be fun to look at a big, recent Christmas themed book starring our Caped Crusader and his beloved Feline Fatale, Batman/Catwoman, written by Tom King with art in the main series by Clay Mann, w…