Natürlich will Bruce herausfinden,was es damit auf sich hat, und schnell stellt sich heraus, dass alles von einem seltsamen außerirdischen Objekt verursacht wird. Batman is never one to reject superpowers, the Dark Knight has used untold fortunes and impossibly advanced technology to give himself an edge, and the opportunity to become Superman is one he would quietly relish as the ultimate tool to fulfill his vow of eliminating the evil that claimed his parents so many years ago. Starting out as a columnist for the Image Comics preview magazine Image+, Sam also translated the Eisner Award nominated-Beowulf for the publisher.

It turns out that Superman is completely AWOL and no one knows where or even when he vanished off the face of the Earth.

Occasionally, the story is too goofy (Darick Robertson's atrocious art doesn't help there), but it's overall a way more satisfying read than I expected. Here’s the thing: When DC publishes a Batman miniseries, it comes with the implication of being special in some way. Interestingly, I found that it was Diego Rodriguez’s colors that really brought it all together and stood out.

Given the powers and abilities to match his peers, the Caped Crusader can expand his mission in ways that he could only previously dream about, no longer constrained by his ordinary human limits. I am now entirely convinced that the pitch for this comic was “Batman has to break into the fortress of solitude. Granted, there are moments and particularly facial close-ups that are less than stellar compared to his norm, but overall he does a good job and one that somehow worked well for me with the story.

I do like that it does try to explore something that is not really discussed to often and that is Krypton's past as conquerors as members of various alien races who suffered because of Krypton invade Earth looking to kill superman and we see Batman trying to find a way to beat them by getting various heroes to rally after the Justice League is defeated.

Batman teams up with some very unlikely heroes (the Justice League is quickly put out of commission by the aliens), leading to numerous unexpected scenarios with surprising outcomes. In the mysterious absence of the Last Son of Krypton, Batman must rally the rest of the Justice League to counter the alien threat but first, he must quell a crime wave on the blacked-out streets of Gotham!

Bei solchen schwerwiegenden Vorkommnissen muss natürlich Superman konsultiert werden, doch blöd nur, dass dieser wie vom Erdboden verschwunden ist. After the Justice League fails to save the day, Batman and an unlikely team decide the only way to defeat the aliens is with alien tech - found in Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. It seemed like a storyline where Earth is under attack and Batman (as you can see by the cover) is dealing with a Gotham City that, like the whole planet, is under a complete blackout due to extreme alien tech - a very worst, case scenario that reminded me of the old "No-Man's Land" storyline which was one of the most badass ever in Batman comics, not great, but a first of its kind at the time and done pretty well. Just last year Mattson Tomlin found great success with Batman: The Imposter (check out Casper’s review! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.