Batman Eternal #1

I am so torn on this. I buy exclusively trades but I want to be able to experience this on a weekly basis. Batman is my favorite character and I love the Bat-family so this title has me all kinds of intrigued.

@syncig: Go for it, bro.

@maddpanda531: I'm probably gonna buy it on comixology after I get out of class

man same here, im a trades guy. But I downloaded comixology app just for this, worth it so far.

as a trades guy this series is perfect because I don't have to wait long to see what happens next (only a week)

Ugh...weekly, then again, it's Batman, so I have to do it.

im a trade guy but then i saw batman then i saw the price then thought batman and clan and then i thought all the hell with it im buying

I am the party pooper, but the price for this alone is a gonna get expensive really quick.

@fil123: Glad to hear you enjoyed the first issue. I'll be reading it later today. I am a trades guy only because of storage purposes. I don't have much room and it is so much easier and aesthetically pleasing to put trades on a shelf than to have boxes of issues sitting around.

I'm going to trade wait… I can't afford another Batman title, especially weekly.

Enjoyed this. Personally, I'm not a huge huge fan of Fabok's art. It's pleasing to the eye, but everyone always looks so damn buff. Apart from that, I really enjoyed this and it felt like a great intro. So glad Bats' has a weekly, gonna be great!

I seriously hope this doesn't become a necessary read to enjoy the main Batman series following Zero Year. I would love to pick this series up, but with it being both a weekly title and $2.99 per week...I just can't afford to keep up with that for 60 issues. v__v

I really liked this issue, and the direction the series seems to be going in. This was a better debut than last weeks Detective Comics IMO.

I hope to god that it's not Joker that in the book ends.

If I get this, I'll get it two months from now on Comixology when it goes down in price. I wonder how sales will go, a couple of months from now. Also if this is mandatory to catch everything up in the Bat Universe, why waste our time with Zero Year?

Oh... I want to buy you so much. But I also want to have money for food... If only it were 1.99 per issue...

I feel like it probably will. Snyder just mentioned that when he's done with Zero Year, this is the continuity he'll be coming back to.

Why must I have to wait until December for this trade!!!?

Yeah I've heard him mention that, but Snyder also said that after Zero Year the next storyline he'll be doing is a short detective-style one before things start tying into Eternal. I just hope you can still enjoy Batman without having to read Eternal to understand everything that's doing on.

I thought this issue was great. It didn't answer many questions that the Batgivings teaser left us with, but the action was awesome and I'm very intrigued by the story so far.

I think that the villain talking to Bruce in "The End" is either Hush or Lincoln March/Thomas Wayne Jr. I would be very surprised if it's the Joker. It didn't seem like the Joker's personality at all.

I'm excited about this. Was taking to a friend about the Spider-verse Sony is making and it dawned on us that more than any other character, Batman and his supporting cast could be a universe of their own, so I'm looking forward to all of that being explored.

I would replace the word never, with always. Still it is his 75th year, so hpfully after this DC and WB will start to cut down on Batman.

@g_man: i just caught a glimps of the first page and i was like OH LORD WHAT HAPPENED!?!?

4.5/5

I was heavily debating whether to wait for the trades for this series or not because of it being weekly, this is one of the cases I'm glad I didn't. I cant recall a more attention grabbing first page in recent memory.

Just read the issue and I agree with the review. The art is excellent and the story has me intrigued for the future but it was definitely a set-up for what's to come. If the GCPD get a good portion of the spotlight like they did in this issue then I'll be very happy. Can't wait for all the Bat-craziness coming in this series.

Torn between getting this or waiting for N52: Future's End.

Really can't wait to get this. That first page? Completely and totally awesome!

This issue was awesome

To be honest, I had assumed it was Catwoman since she was revealed to be the King Pin in issue 38.5

As people can tell, I am extremely critical of DC but this...I REALLY enjoyed this. Great stuff and looking forward to next week.

I'd love to read this. If DC had gone bi-monthly with it, I'd have found a way to make it work. Weekly though, no way I'm dropping four other books just to read this one. Props to DC for going with a $3 price though, that kinda surprises me.

@arturocalakayvee:

It could be Catwoman, but she doesn't know Bruce's identity yet (maybe she will though) and I don't think that she's evil/crazy enough to burn down part of Gotham.

@captainhoopla: you can just wait until the graphic novel form of this comes out

I don't understand the bad. Because it's a weekly series? Or because it's a first issue (but a damn fine one at that!)

I looked at the first page and said: "Wow, I so know that this won't have any lasting ripercussion!"

Seriously, I was so passionate about superheroes like a couple of years ago, and then I noticed that they just do the same thing over and over and over... I can't get excited anymore.

Still, I am so happy, it opened so many more horizons for me, comic book wise. There are so many great original stories out there...

This was awesome!!!

@arturocalakayvee: I wouldn't say catwoman because she seems like a red herring.

maybe the villain talking to Bats is a crazed out Dick Grayson after the events of Forever Evil.

@hushofthewind

I hadn't thought of that. I hope not though because that would ruin Dick as a character, but it would make for an insane story.

It's 52 issues, unless it is going on for more than a year now, which would be odd.

ok, so I didn't read all of zero year(it was way too long and money consuming. I had that, my other DC titles, marvel titles, and forever evil+tie ins to buy) so can someone briefly explain what happened with Zero year and where Detective, Batman, and Eternal is taking off continuity wise? Thanks

All I'm saying is that Bruce's eyes in the first page looked yellow, which made me think of Scarecrow's fear toxin, but the flames might just be giving him that color. But considering Snyder and everyone else, it'll be someone new I'm sure.

I won't be getting this until Saturday. It's painful, but I can twll by all of your reactions that it'll be well worth the wait.

Agreed on Lincoln March. He was on the Chris Burnham variant to Detective Comics #27 for no apparent reason, but maybe it's actually to tie into what's going on here.

i hope they include batman inc characters in this