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Batman: Nightwalker
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Jul 28, 2017
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Rating: 1-angry-this-is-not-my-Batman-star.
The existence of this book is quite an insult to Batman and this book reads like it was written by some third-ranked comic-script-writer who doesn't know enough of a thing about Batman and what he stands for.
I have a feeling that if Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by a young pretty girl, this version of Bruce would have forgiven her too.
How insulting.
I just won't forgive Marie Lu or whoever else is responsible for reducing Bruce Wayne into a hapless young man who thinks with his dick instead of his brain (I know he is only 18 years old in this story, but it is still unforgivable), and the whole mother fucking nonsense about people doing community service in the fucking Arkham Asylum.
Plus, if the whole Bruce/Madeleine thingy is supposed to be a nod to Silence Of the Lambs then double shame on you, Marie Lu.
Honestly, if you wanted some decent Batman's origin story, try Frank Miller's Batman: Year One. It's for your own good.
edited@08/05/2019: Guess what........I've been soaking myself in Batman online fanfics for months and I swear to the BatGod that I'd read plenty of better written, closer-to-canon-fanfics with better-constructed characters, better-plotted romances and much deeper understanding to the characters' mentalities than this... and those good fanfic writers have never charged me anything for their good works.
edited@08/11/2018: *angry rant* ONLY STUPID PEOPLE WOULD BELIEVE BRUCE WAYNE BEING SENTENCED TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE IN *ARKHAM ASYLUM* IS A REALISTIC, BELIEVABLE IDEA! THAT'S JUST STUPID, STUPID!
Plus it turns out the girl (view spoiler) How convenient!
Pre-review:
Sorry about this, Marie Lu. But I just don't believe you can outdo and outshine Frank Miller, Jeph Loeb, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, etc.
Plus, the mother freaking Arkham Asylum is an asylum for the criminally insane, not somewhere for a young rich deviant to do mother freaking community service in. Please don't insult the readers.
People doing community service in the goddamn Arkham Asylum? Does it even make sense? For me, a reader who began her serious Bat-reading with Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth , it feels like a mother freaking slap in the face.
Can we have some good-old 'grim and gritty' B-man instead of a YA one?
And here is some more good-old Batman/Black Canry's down and dirty...'action' scene:
PS: Frank Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder series is just so full of 'Goddamn Batman' and funny meme-worthy panels! LOL
PSS: I can't spam this 'I'm the Goddamn Batman' joke enough:
PSSS: Sorry to be harsh, but i'd just heard rumors about an upcoming Nightwing book, so...would someone please keep Nightwing and his nice butt away from this Marie Lu person?
PSSSS: a review by fellow comic fan Chad: /review/show...
I have a feeling that if Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by a young pretty girl, this version of Bruce would have forgiven her too.
How insulting.
I just won't forgive Marie Lu or whoever else is responsible for reducing Bruce Wayne into a hapless young man who thinks with his dick instead of his brain (I know he is only 18 years old in this story, but it is still unforgivable), and the whole mother fucking nonsense about people doing community service in the fucking Arkham Asylum.
Plus, if the whole Bruce/Madeleine thingy is supposed to be a nod to Silence Of the Lambs then double shame on you, Marie Lu.
Honestly, if you wanted some decent Batman's origin story, try Frank Miller's Batman: Year One. It's for your own good.
edited@08/05/2019: Guess what........I've been soaking myself in Batman online fanfics for months and I swear to the BatGod that I'd read plenty of better written, closer-to-canon-fanfics with better-constructed characters, better-plotted romances and much deeper understanding to the characters' mentalities than this... and those good fanfic writers have never charged me anything for their good works.
edited@08/11/2018: *angry rant* ONLY STUPID PEOPLE WOULD BELIEVE BRUCE WAYNE BEING SENTENCED TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE IN *ARKHAM ASYLUM* IS A REALISTIC, BELIEVABLE IDEA! THAT'S JUST STUPID, STUPID!
Plus it turns out the girl (view spoiler) How convenient!
Pre-review:
Sorry about this, Marie Lu. But I just don't believe you can outdo and outshine Frank Miller, Jeph Loeb, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, etc.
Plus, the mother freaking Arkham Asylum is an asylum for the criminally insane, not somewhere for a young rich deviant to do mother freaking community service in. Please don't insult the readers.
People doing community service in the goddamn Arkham Asylum? Does it even make sense? For me, a reader who began her serious Bat-reading with Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth , it feels like a mother freaking slap in the face.
Can we have some good-old 'grim and gritty' B-man instead of a YA one?
And here is some more good-old Batman/Black Canry's down and dirty...'action' scene:
PS: Frank Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder series is just so full of 'Goddamn Batman' and funny meme-worthy panels! LOL
PSS: I can't spam this 'I'm the Goddamn Batman' joke enough:
PSSS: Sorry to be harsh, but i'd just heard rumors about an upcoming Nightwing book, so...would someone please keep Nightwing and his nice butt away from this Marie Lu person?
PSSSS: a review by fellow comic fan Chad: /review/show...
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Reading Progress
July 28, 2017
– Shelved
July 28, 2017
– Shelved as:
to-read
August 9, 2017
– Shelved as:
read-only-when-running-out-of-book
August 9, 2017
– Shelved as:
only-when-it-is-for-free
August 17, 2017
– Shelved as:
over-my-dead-body
October 28, 2018
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Started Reading
October 29, 2018
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6.62%
"Why would an 18 years old Bruce Wayne talks like he'd just found out today that most of his 'friends' are only there for the benefits he can give them?"
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18
November 3, 2018
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12.5%
"Well that's just plain stupid, you don't send an 18 years old to Arkham Asylum to wash dishes."
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34
November 8, 2018
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19.49%
"Bruce Wayne, thinking with his dick instead of his brain. *faceplams*"
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53
November 11, 2018
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20.59%
"I do agree Bruce wouldn't have bothered if the murderer isn't a beautiful girl!"
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56
November 11, 2018
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22.79%
"If she were young, then she just couldn't be a murderer, Bruce?"
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62
November 11, 2018
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34.56%
""I lost my mother too"? Sounds like the oldest trick in the book!"
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94
November 11, 2018
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36.76%
"When this girl opens her mouth, I don't see a manipulative criminal taking, I only see a little girl trying to make herself sound edgy, cool and mysterious."
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100
November 11, 2018
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46.69%
"sure the Arkham inmates are going to escape sooner or latter, but the GCPD still has the nerve to send an 18 years old billionaire to do community service over there!"
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127
November 11, 2018
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49.26%
"Oh my fucking god, if Bruce's parents were killed by a pretty young girl, he would have forgiven her too.!"
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134
November 11, 2018
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Finished Reading
February 5, 2019
– Shelved as:
are-you-kidding-me
February 5, 2019
– Shelved as:
bad-bad-bad-romance
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☆♥☆Kotyonok★♡� wrote: "Yeah we’re all better off just reading the comics. I hate YA now, I can’t take it seriously and it all seems so silly and overused. ."I still don't hate YA, I just hate stupid YA books and overhpyered YA authors.
.if there’s any relationship at all, it should be the one between him and Alfred....
Their relationship is always so awesome! LOL
☆♥☆Kotyonok★♡� wrote: " He’s a real father/mother figure all in one for Bruce—he’d be much more valuable to him at that age than some girl.... "No just no. In these days every single YA needs to have a romance relationship, who care about teenagers' relationship with their mentors and parents?
I just found the entire thing to be so boring I didn’t even bother finishing it lol. The whole “volunteering at Arkham Asylum� was so dumb. Even in fiction, no cop or federal employee would force a high school kid to work at a place that houses the insane. That’s borderline child abuse in my eyes lol.
@Sunny 's Book: I knew this idea is stupid, you are right to say it's child abuse.
☆♥☆Kotyonok★♡� wrote: "hat makes me so sad, it's like a requirement for YA books to have a romance now. But if YA is coming of age sometimes, this could have been a great chance to show that and really give depth to Batman and how he became the Batman....a mentor/role model relationship ."Aside from Alfred, there must still be some interesting stories about the young Bruce getting his training somewhere outside of Gotham, just look at Frank Miller's Batman Year One!
☆♥☆Kotyonok★♡� wrote: "Dr. Thompkins. She was friends with Bruce's father and helped Alfred raise Bruce at times, before he was Batman and everything, it would be around the time Marie Lu is writing him as in her book....."I remember this doctor, she appeared for a few times and seems to be have an important part in Bruce's upbringing, she reminds him ordinary people can still stand their ground and do good despite of the corrupted environment they are in. but of course, why puts an aged woman into a YA book? YA readers would probably wants more to read about beautiful young girls and stupid romance....or so the publishers believe.
, I can’t stand to see my favorite superhero only thinking with his dick.
Teenage boys are bound to think with their dicks now and then...........but you are right.......I would hate to see the same happen to Bruce.
☆♥☆Kotyonok★♡� wrote: "I get that he has to be affected by girls at some point, but Bruce was always a special case because of his parents....he was always just so FOCUSED.."I'm not against Bruce falling for some girls now and then (he is a young man after all), but...........I guess you just got to have some limitation to how much his love affairs affect his judgement and common sense, right?
are struggling and he asks Alfred “hey how’d you help me after my parents died?� And Alfred goes “sir you dress up as a bat to go out at night....do you really think I helped you?� 🤣🤣 I love Alfred! 😭♥️
Alfred, he is always so damn epic! I love him when he beats Superman in Injustice: Gods Among Us.XD
And yeah I don’t get why they think there can’t be some older people in YA—I love seeing role model relationships tbh, especially non parental ones.
For some reason, role model/mentor relationships are rare in YA novels these days because most of the YA adults are fools and the parents are always absent, don't ask me why!
Yeah, you would hate this. It really has nothing to do with Batman.
Chad wrote: "Yeah, you would hate this. It really has nothing to do with Batman."Gosh, that bad?
If people from DC think that hiring YA authors to write YA versions of their stories to attract YA readers to buy more from them is a good decision then they must be desperate.
Nicko wrote: "If people from DC think that hiring YA authors to write YA versions of their stories to attract YA readers to buy more from them is a good decision then they must be desperate."I know.....right? how sad.
LOL. I read Batman from age 5 on up. He was the only superhero I ever took to. No need to change him.
Steelwhisper wrote: "LOL. I read Batman from age 5 on up. He was the only superhero I ever took to. No need to change him."I'm okay with changes in Batman's personality and character (Owlman from Earth 3 sounds so interesting!) but I'm 100% against reducing Bruce into a hapless teen who thinks with his dick. That's too insulting.
oh god now i'm scared to buy these books and even more horrified that they might destroy Nightwing.
Don't fucking drag Nightwing into this!
OMG!!! They better not MAKE a Nightwing (not sweet, playful, Loveable, and funny Richard [Dick] Grayson) Novels!!! Don’t drag him into this!!! 😱 And for heaven sake they better not make a YA novels of Jason Todd or Tim Drake too!!! Not those precious Baby!!! My goodness. And readings this review. Make me regret making (begging) my older sister for buying me this book. Batman was my favorite DC superhero. Grow UP with it, because my older Brother was a fan. And offend tag me alone with his likeness for this thing. End UP loving reading comics and playing Batman on PS4 in the end. Red Robin and Red Hood where my favorite children (yes, I know that they are his adopted kids, expect for Damian. But still) of Batman.
Koreen wrote: "OMG!!! They better not MAKE a Nightwing (not sweet, playful, Loveable, and funny Richard [Dick] Grayson) Novels!!! Don’t drag him into this!!! 😱 And for heaven sake they better not make a YA novels..."Dear Koreen:
I understand your angsty and anger, I feel exactly the same. Don't let any of these so-called YA authors touch any of our Bat boys.
Don't get me wrong, there are a few good YA authors out there, but I just don't trust DC to get to the qualified authors...
If people wanted to read about Bruce Wayne's early days there already is Batman: Year One (penned by the goddamn awesome Frank Miller, for Hell's sake).
I haven't read much of Nightwing's or Red Robin's stories so I can't say much (but I swear I'm gonna get to their stories later). But as for Red Hood we already have the Red Hood: the Lost Days so I don't need any more shitty YA adaptation.
*pat pats*
As if this book wasn't shitty enough, I saw they were turning this into a graphic novel as part of DC Ink.
Chad wrote: "As if this boo wasn't shitty enough, I saw they were turning this into a graphic novel as part of DC Ink."I know, I'd just given this graphic novel 1 star.
Yiiikes, I always thought DC is sleeping on the potential of a red hood novel but reading how bad these are, i reaaaally hope they wont write a ya novel about my boi jason and insult him ughhh
BlueberryMoon wrote: "Yiiikes, I always thought DC is sleeping on the potential of a red hood novel but reading how bad these are, i reaaaally hope they wont write a ya novel about my boi jason and insult him ughhh"Wait?! Are they seriousl?! Bad enough they plan for a nightwing. But Red Hood too?! O.o Oh hell no!!! Jason Todd was one Powerful character in DC, Batman. I won’t be happy if they Ruin his image, or his character and his charm. 😑
Chad wrote: "As if this book wasn't shitty enough, I saw they were turning this into a graphic novel as part of DC Ink."I wanna puke. Why?! Are they that desparate?! 😱😑 Bad enough that loki from Marvel is getting a YA novel verisons. And now they going to turn this book into a graphic novel?! I rather Read a dark original Batman comic. Or Red Hood and the outlaws. Or Red Robin than this. Ugh. 🤦🏼♀�
BlueberryMoon wrote: "Yiiikes, I always thought DC is sleeping on the potential of a red hood novel but reading how bad these are, i reaaaally hope they wont write a ya novel about my boi jason and insult him ughhh"Thanks for the comment, to be fair I know there are a few good YA authors who MIGHT do those DC characters justice, but I'd rather not gamble our beloved Bat boys on DC making the right call and finding the exact good authors instead of just picking up the famous ones just because they are famous.
Koreen wrote: "Chad wrote: "As if this book wasn't shitty enough, I saw they were turning this into a graphic novel as part of DC Ink."I wanna puke. Why?! Are they that desparate?! 😱😑 Bad enough that loki from..."
Sorry to break the bad news to you, but this fucking graphic novel thing is actually here: /review/show...
Koreen wrote: "Wait?! Are they seriousl?! Bad enough they plan for a nightwing. But Red Hood too?! O.o "Well, I only saw DC teaming up with YA authors to do a Raven book and a Beast Boy book. The author who will write Raven story is Kami Garcia, I'd read her supernatural YA novels and I think I can trust her to do some good...
As to Nightwing or Red Hood, I haven't heard any confirmed news, so I can only hope those are just rumors....
Mizuki wrote: "Koreen wrote: "Chad wrote: "As if this book wasn't shitty enough, I saw they were turning this into a graphic novel as part of DC Ink."I wanna puke. Why?! Are they that desparate?! 😱😑 Bad enough..."
Well, their goes my nightmare. 😱🙄
Mizuki wrote: "Koreen wrote: "Wait?! Are they seriousl?! Bad enough they plan for a nightwing. But Red Hood too?! O.o "Well, I only saw DC teaming up with YA authors to do a Raven book and a Beast Boy book. The..."
:v 🤦🏼♀�
Koreen wrote: "Mizuki wrote: "Koreen wrote: "Wait?! Are they seriousl?! Bad enough they plan for a nightwing. But Red Hood too?! O.o "Well, I only saw DC teaming up with YA authors to do a Raven book and a Beas..."
*pat pats* I'm going to have nightmares about YA Nightwing and YA Red Hood. Shit!!!!
A great review Mizuki! There’s a reason this book has only sat on my TBR and I haven’t even gotten close to picking it up and reading it. I don’t want to be disappointed by a terrible YA Batman so I’ll just avoid this one forever😂As for the YA Red Hood and YA Nightwing rumours, the red hood one is still a rumour but the YA Nightwing book is confirmed for a 2020 publication. It’s called The Lost Carnival and it’s going to be a YA graphic novel. It looks promising from the cover and sounds ok from the synopsis but it could very easily go south. As long as there’s no Ric Grayson in there it can’t be that bad, right?😂😂
Kadi wrote: "A great review Mizuki! There’s a reason this book has only sat on my TBR and I haven’t even gotten close to picking it up and reading it. I don’t want to be disappointed by a terrible YA Batman so ..."Huhh.......let's just read some good-old Batman's origin story in the comic books then!
As for the YA Red Hood and YA Nightwing rumours, the red hood one is still a rumour
Thanks goodness! and I guess you can see how wrong it is to have a Red Hood YA! Perhaps it's not as bad as a Joker YA, but...I mean, consider all the bloodshed, gunfight, explosion, mobsters getting killed and stuff that is going to be in the storyline! Plus we already have the Red Hood: Lost Days comic for Jason's coming of age story, I personally don't need more.
Everyone seems to live in fear of this Ric Grayson nonsense, so I will stay as far away from this mess as possible!
the YA Nightwing book is confirmed for a 2020 publication. It’s called The Lost Carnival and it’s going to be a YA graphic novel.
I had seen the ad of this YA graphic novel before and the artwork is lovely! Though I agree it's safer to wait for review to see if it's worth reading!
I definitely agree Jason has had his coming of age story and I don’t really need a YA novel about him because it’ll most likely be unfaithful towards him as a character. Did you hear though? Bendis is going to be taking over Red Hood and the Outlaws and the Nightwing comics so they’re going to be destroyed. I have no limited amount of hate towards Brian Michael Bendis and I’m certainly not looking forward to him destroying both Dick and Jason’s characters😩😩
Kadi wrote: "Did you hear though? Bendis is going to be taking over Red Hood and the Outlaws and the Nightwing comics so they’re going to be destroyed. I have no limited amount of hate towards Brian Michael Bendis and I’m certainly not looking forward to him destroying both Dick and Jason’s characters"See, I find that exciting. He certainly can't make them any worse than they have been.
Kadi wrote: "I definitely agree Jason has had his coming of age story and I don’t really need a YA novel about him because it’ll most likely be unfaithful towards him as a character. Did you hear though? Bendis..."Backstory, side-story or spin-off about Jason are more than welcome! But not YA, please not YA! It's almost as bad as doing a Joker YA or Ra's al Ghoul YA, for hell's sake!
*sighs* I am skeptical about the Nightwing series (2016), I only read 3 chapters so far so I haven't judged yet but as to Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016).......I'm pretty much okay with the current author, RHATO is not the best story out there but it's enjoyable to say the least. As to the new author........we can only pray everything will be okay in the end.............but again I'm skeptical........if things went south I will use my old trick: stop reading and pretend the parts that I don't like never happened. XDDD
Chad wrote: "See, I find that exciting. He certainly can't make them any worse than they have been.."I'd heard a lot of horror stories about what's going on with the Nightwing series, thankfully I still have yet to read to this part myself...
As to RHATO, I'm okay with the stories so far......so...this Brian Michael Bendis guy better does a fine job when he takes over.
@Chad 😂it’s true Nightwing has been terrible so far. It’s because of Ric (ew I just hate the whole thing) but I have a very small hope that our old Dick will return. But now that I know Bendis is going to take over I can count on Dick being ruined because Bendis RUINS dc characters. Just look at Tim. And the entire disgrace that is young justice. And aged-up Jon. *shudders*. I have very strong (hateful) feelings towards Bendis.It’s just the idea that a lot of the characters I love are in the hands of Bendis and I can’t stand the way he’s written for DC since he’s come. And trust me I gave him chances!
@Mizuki Nightwing is pretty bad as of late but RHATO is a fan favourite that’s been doing pretty good! Honestly I can’t say enough how much I hate Bendis� writing. Just read my review of Young Justice vol 1 and you’ll see all the issues in his writing. I’ve read some of his Legion of Superheroes series as well and he’s got pretty much the same problems in there. I do hope I’m thoroughly surprised and he ends up making some great comics but I can’t see that happening so I’m preparing myself for the worst.
I didn't like how Bendis aged up Jon either just so he could become the replacement Superboy in the Legion. But I do like some of the other stuff he's done in Superman. The Invisible Mafia is a really interesting idea. I liked Young Justice. And I really enjoy a lot of his Marvel work like Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Jessica Jones and New Avengers.
Kadi wrote: "@Mizuki Nightwing is pretty bad as of late but RHATO is a fan favourite that’s been doing pretty good! Honestly I can’t say enough how much I hate Bendis� writing. Just read my review of Young Just..."Huhh......I'd heard horror stories about the new run of Young Justice before...
and here is Top 10 Black Mask facts. XD
As to RHATO, here is the meme I saw just yesterday~
(LINK: )
This Bendis seems to have done ton of Marvel comics.....so maybe he isn't so bad? I can only hope for the best...
Chad wrote: "I didn't like how Bendis aged up Jon either just so he could become the replacement Superboy in the Legion. But I do like some of the other stuff he's done in Superman. The Invisible Mafia is a rea..."He aged up Jon!!!!!??????? I'm starting to have bad feeling now...okay, 17 years old Jon is still kind of cute.........but I still don't like it so much.
I didn't read Marvel much so again.......I can only hope for the best.
Mizuki wrote: "This Bendis seems to have done ton of Marvel comics.....so maybe he isn't so bad? I can only hope for the best..."Bendis wrote for Marvel for about 20 years. He's one of the top writers in comics. Is everything he does fantastic? No. But enough of it is great that I'll read everything he writes.
@Chad I heard he’s written some good comics over at Marvel and I’ve never read marvel comics so I can’t comment on that but I’m not convinced he’s written anything good at DC. Young justice was a piece of absolute rubbish. Naomi was ok I’ll hand it to him it was alright. I do admire how Bendis has all these characters that dc has given him creative control over from his wonder comics imprint and how he brought them all together on young justice. That is actually cool and I like the idea of it. Just the execution of it is terrible. Bendis can’t write teenagers! Everyone has the same generic voice. And he’s constantly faced with the problem of too many characters on the page which feeds into the problem of no one being unique and everyone sounding the same but it also means his comics are usually dialogue heavy and not cohesive story telling. Honestly there’s a lot more problems too (I wrote about it in my review of Young Justice vol 1).You can’t deny that Bendis isn’t afraid to take extreme actions like ageing up Jon, having superman reveal his true identity to the world, etc etc. That’s something I’m actually scared of for when he takes over Nightwing and RHATO because he is definitely going to do something irreversible to characters that is going to have major repercussions on the batfam as a whole.
@Mizuki young justice is a joke honestly😂 it is the only comic that can actually make me mad. Like I think about all the issues in it and it annoys me deeply. You didn’t hear about Bendis ageing up Jon? Bendis single handedly DESTROYED super sons because he decided to age up Jon so that there was a familiar character for readers to recognise in his new Legion of Superheroes comic. I wouldn’t be so mad if aged up Jon was actually a good character but he’s not. He has like no personality. It’s all wrong. And it’s like we lost Super Sons for nothing because aged up Jon isn’t even good. Major facepalm ensues when looking at ANYTHING Bendis has done at dc😩😂
Kadi wrote: "Bendis can’t write teenagers! "I'll have to disagree with you there. His Ultimate Spider-Man run is the best run on Spider-Man ever. He does an absolutely fantastic job of writing the teenage version of Peter Parker. Also, if you liked Into the Spider-Verse, you can thank Bendis. He created Miles Morales and wrote every issue of his comic until leaving for DC. He's one of the best characters created in the last 20 years.
Kadi wrote: "@Mizuki young justice is a joke honestly😂 it is the only comic that can actually make me mad. Like I think about all the issues in it and it annoys me deeply. You didn’t hear about Bendis ageing ..."
I'd read your review, and I hope I can read the volumes myself to see how it is.
Talking about Young Justice, I can't help but pimping my Amazons fanart:
You didn’t hear about Bendis ageing up Jon? Bendis single handedly DESTROYED super sons because he decided to age up Jon so that there was a familiar character for readers to recognise in his new Legion of Superheroes comic.
What. The. Fuck? I didn't know that's the reason why Jon is aged up. =__=
Chad wrote: "Bendis wrote for Marvel for about 20 years. He's one of the top writers in comics. "Okay, I have never been a Marvel fan........that's why I haven't known much about this guy...
Yep finally read this and honestly...it was so meh.
Elisabeth (Enthralled by the Written Word) wrote: "Yep finally read this and honestly...it was so meh."Huh, this one isn't even entertaining.
I ain't readin allat save it for the publisher
Marie Lu, she is just another author who fancies herself capable of writing anti heroes, that's it.
And now that you mention it does seem stupid—community service? In an....ASYLUM. Not just any asylum too, but the one where the worst of the crazy of the worst go.
People are using 'lousy Gotham City authority' as Lu's excuse now, but what kind of lousy authorities would send the heir of the richest family in town to an asylum filled with the worst kind of criminals? What if the teen got kidnapped? Plenty of people are gonna lose their jobs if Bruce Wayne so much as losing a few locks of hair on his head within Arkham.
And why is there a hinted romance? Not every YA book has to have a romance....
I heard from other reviewers that the romance makes the young Bruce looks like he is thinking with his dick instead of his brain.
I don’t know I might still read this though but I feel like these YA authors are just messing these stories up.
I guess we all better check out comics by Frank Miller, Jeph Loeb, Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, etc instead of suffer ourselves with more YA stupidity.