[World of Bats] Detective Comics #969-974, Annual #1 "Fall of the Batmen"

Jay_Kay · May 28, 2022, 2:15pm

Hello and Welcome to the World of Bats, the Batman Book Club!

This week we’ll be approaching the tail end of the acclaimed James Tynion IV’s run on Detective Comics with issues #969-974 and Annual #1, “Fall of the Batmen,” with art by Eddy Barrows, Joe Bennett, Miguel Mendonca, Jesus Merino, and Phil Briones.

Red Robin has returned, resuming his work in Gotham City as well as his romance with Stephanie Brown, the Spoiler. These two, along with Batwoman, Clayface, Batwing, Azrael and Orphan, help Batman reduce the threat of crime to the citizenry.

But their success comes with a horrible price.

The First Victim and his Victim Syndicate want one thing: to make Batman pay. They have turned the whole city against the Batmen in protest, abducted Clayface and threatened to release all of Arkham Asylum’s most dangerous villains if Batman doesn’t unmask on live television.

Everything Red Robin has built to ensure a new future for the team could crumble if the Victim Syndicate triumphs…or if one member of the team makes a detrimental decision that could tear them apart.

Plus, a full-length look at Basil Karlo’s tortured life, from being the son of a distant man-of-a-thousand-faces father to the accident that turned the rising celebrity into the shape-changing Clayface.

Normally this is where I would put the links, but DCUI just happened to put this particular arc together in one storyline link!

Reading will go from 2022-05-28T05:00:00Z→2022-06-03T05:00:00Z, but you can always come back later.

Looking forward to discussing these issues with you all!

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AlexanderKnox · May 28, 2022, 2:29pm

Boo! Keep this arc going, Tynion!

Jay_Kay · May 28, 2022, 2:38pm

Can’t, he got that Substack money now.

scoop001 · May 28, 2022, 3:14pm

Wow, poor Tim and poor Clayface. I have never felt such sympathy for Clayface before. Definitely tugged at my heartstrings.

millernumber1 · May 28, 2022, 6:25pm

Hooray! One of my favorite runs of all time!

john.21795 · June 4, 2022, 10:04pm

Haven’t read the Annual yet, but the rest of it is great. It seems like the who ensemble gets just enough time in the spotlight. Such a tragic ending for Clayface and major props to Tynion for doing such a great job humanizing him over the run so that we would care.

I have a question for the community: Was Batwoman right?

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millernumber1 · June 5, 2022, 3:06am

A good question - I don’t really know, honestly!