Detective Comics Annual #2 storytime
The Black Casebook
Detective Comics Annual #2
Ian Rivera
Cameron Gomez
Ian Wilson
Brandon Thomas
A Tale from the Black Casebook!
Brody Reed
Easton Hill
David Rodriguez
>shoots people as it slices them
It’s so dumb, I love it.
Landon Cook
Joseph Mitchell
Asher Harris
Connor Lewis
Two pages in and I'm already laughing
What the fuck is this outfit
Luke Jenkins
Brody Myers
>I’m gonna r-r-r-rub you out!
Ethan Hernandez
It was from the 80's
Austin Perez
Dylan Moore
Angel Cox
Joshua Barnes
Wait, he's making Batman Year Two canon again, sort of?
Luke Anderson
Chase Gonzalez
Nathaniel Young
>Moore
Wait what
Elijah Peterson
Logan Evans
>Gordon licking lolipops
Kek
Evan Foster
This fucker is back AGAIN?!
Joshua Peterson
Caleb Brooks
I swear if Tomasi pulls a daughter-of-the guy ruse a second time
Wyatt King
Travis Moore.
Ryan King
artist
Adam Ward
Good to see Moore not stuck on that awful Ric story in Nightwing.
Carter Perry
Dominic Robinson
Did he have a 1000 $ bill?
Nicholas Howard
>1000 bill
Didn't they stop making those
Luke Parker
Blake Murphy
Sophia is pretty hot.
Asher Lopez
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
Justin Cox
Adrian Garcia
Ayden Johnson
Colton Rogers
>Gordon using lollipops instead of cigs
Is this published by 4Kids
Alexander Lopez
Joshua Ramirez
Andrew Perez
>Batman has another cave
>It's just as filled with knickknacks as the main one
Mason Morales
"bat man" really writes like this in Greek?
Sebastian Gutierrez
Mason Lopez
Michael Walker
guess he ran out of space in the old one
James Hall
Nolan Reed
Hudson Murphy
Kevin Roberts
Michael Parker
Aaron Ramirez
Alexander Reed
Wait... the new Reaper is freaking Mark Millar's Nemesis now? HA!
Jackson Watson
Michael Allen
Jacob Butler
Jason James
Jonathan Wilson
END
I hope you all have a good day
Aaron Sanders
I really dig the action
Easton Butler
Basically a setup for Batman against the Reaper incorporated. The story was pretty comfy. Nice Alfred/Bruce dialogues.
Noah Morales
thanks for the storytime
Xavier Fisher
This story is much better than the Arkham Knight stuff in the main Detective Comics series. I generally like Tomasi's writing, but something about that just feels kind of off.
Jose Russell
Jeez, I wonder what being rubbed out feels like? And do you still go to DC Heaven after?
Ryan Baker
To be fair, Mask of the Phantasm beat him there with this particular one
Ayden Ortiz
This is Tomasi's best Tec story period so far. All it needs is Damian.
Noah Edwards
I wish Tomasi would have led with this instead of the Arkham Knight
This is a good old fashioned Batman story
Nolan Scott
I love it when they bring up Alfred and his love for theater
Asher Smith
Has the Arkham Knight plot been the entirety of his Tec run so far? I usually really like Tomasi but I heard that Arkham Knight story was a miss.
Noah Nguyen
Thank you
Julian Collins
He tried to kick the habit during Snyder's run on Batman.
Joshua Gray
Man, this is an edgelord if I seen one.
Adrian Reyes
This cover makes no sense. Why does Bruce put books on his shelf with the bending facing the wall? How does he know what book is what? How does he keep track of anything? This fucking cover has ruined my day.
James Cooper
That is one OP power, too bad he seems to be really dumb.
Cooper Wood
Nicholas Jones
It could be a bookshelf that you can walk all the way around, like in a library. Plus if he only has one boom like that, he’d know which one to pick.
Ayden Ward
It has it's ups and down, but the biggest problems are that the beginning was abysmal, memeable writing and that nobody was crying for a redo of the Arkham Knight in the first place
Anthony Butler
I like her. She’s already better than Catwoman.
Joseph Baker
Biggest problem for me, aside from Anton fucking Arcane working for some newbie from Gotham, is that they wasted the second half of Detective Comics #1000 for a villain that's gonna get taken down and forgotten in less than six issues? I mean, I know there's really no 'status quo' with DC anymore, and that's whatever, but do SOMETHING aside from set up a short, totally forgettable story.
Matthew Edwards
4kids Gordon.
Elijah Wood
How can you not love Alfred.
Cooper Nguyen
who writes all this books?
Angel Johnson
They're references to previous Batman stories. Like how street names in Gotham are named after writers.
Leo Allen
I don't know, better that than pull a Benis and spend a year trying to get Rurroh Zambot over
Andrew Martinez
Oh God, that's right, they did the same thing with literally the first comic book to ever hit #1000; just another anniversary issue here, folks. And then everyone will have forgotten and dropped the Rogol Zaar thing the second that Bendis leaves the Super books.
Kevin Smith
It's the same thing.
Ryan Brooks
Is this the same woman who can create a bunny girl clone of herself?
Ryder Cox
>he doesn’t know
Justin Howard
To be fair, a lot of people were disappointed with the Jason reveal in Knight when they were promised an OC. Considering Tomasi wrote the tie in comic for Knight, he might have signed on thinking he was gonna come up with the back story for an OC, and now he wanted too.
Connor Anderson
Tell me that if the Arkham Knight starts showing up in the next two arcs of Tec
Dylan Roberts
He has other caves filled with weird stuff, I live this kind of dumb shit.
Aiden Hill
Even Bruce's chest hair is in the form of a bat.
William Watson
It's like he's an obsessive Elder Scrolls player.
Jeremiah Sullivan
No, he started with a Knightmare arc of his own. It was so shitty, King's Batman having nightmares and Tomasi's Tec having nightmares all at the same time.
Alexander Turner
>YOHOHO
Aiden Rivera
Unironically, good for the colorist just pasting the exact same color if the artist isn’t going to even change the lines at all after their own copy and paste.
Carson Turner
Show of hands, who's more interested and more on board with this plot than the one with Arkham Knight.
Colton Watson
Dude. How?
Aiden Sanchez
Awesome
Michael Carter
>that bat shaped chest hair
h-hot
Dylan Adams
this was fun. well done, DC.
Ethan Adams
>people don't know about gordon's constant habit to quit smoking
There was a comic he was vaping and Batman made fun of him for it. He almost started smoking again when he was Batmech. It's basically Tony and not drinking.
Alexander Williams
oh so that's where keeps his giant dice
Adam Hernandez
>All it needs is Damian.
No.
Alexander Fisher
I thought that it was going to be a rehash of that one. They even have a similar character and all.
Dominic Hill
....then its worth more?
Luke Smith
phonetically yes. I
Ethan Perry
That man on the left corner looks a lot like bendis
Nathaniel Lewis
Huh, the red casebook. Interesting
Isaac Campbell
When I first saw this in the comic store today I was really excited that it might be by Morrison. Still happy to see based Tomasi using Morrison's plot device though.
Grayson Scott
The Reaper Inc
Gavin Sanders
I fucking love Tomasi. This annual was fantastic and fun.
Joshua Jenkins
Except that Tomasi's was shorter iirc and it was definitely MUCH more positive. King's was cynical decompression and portraying Batman as broken while Tomasi's dream issues were about Batman facing his tough memories and growing from them.
Chase Thompson
I love Tomasi's Batman, and have since the nu52, and it's for that reason that you gave right there. His Batman is not broken, he's somewhat well-adjusted, he has no issues calling for help, he has a good relationship with his son and his father. And then you go to any other comic with Batman in it and CRAAWWWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIN
Hunter Lopez
>2nd middle panel
Thought Alfred had started sprouting spikes for a moment.
Benjamin Young
I was fully expecting it to have been the girl, so we're already ahead on that front.
Lincoln Butler
Great thing about this story and this issue, is that it's also sort of a rebuke against the idea that Batman should be handling street level crime. Of course, Reaper takes it farther than Batman does, but it's still a wealthy vigilante beating up on desperate, poor people who often don't have any other options.
A great example is at the beginning of the story, when we're not even aware of what's going on with the Reaper, the idea definitely comes across of just how incredibly disproportionate he is to the criminals he's mowing down like chaff. And then, when Bats is talking to the actual guy, it's pretty clear, reading between the lines, that what he's actually aiming for is the violent destruction of the poor.
God, it blows that this wasn't what was in Detective Comics #1000, and that they aren't pursuing this plot instead of Arkham Knight. This is so much more interesting and has a hell of a lot more to say about Batman as a character, and his impact, than the comics version of Arkham Knight does.
Cameron Young
>Tomasi
Oh yes.