Will I ever cease to be delighted by Marvel comics borrowing Jack Kirby stuff from DC and vice versa? No, no I will not. Defenders #2 Image: Al Ewing, Javier Rodríguez/Marvel Comics
#SCARECROW BATMAN FULL#
A city full of fear, without a drop of gimmicky fear gas. Tynion has kept the Scarecrow in the background or in framing devices during his run, seemingly in the employ of tech billionaire Simon Saint - a villain in his own right who’s been manipulating city politics and public opinion to get his tech-enhanced security forces positioned as Gotham’s answer to both its costumed criminal and costumed vigilante problems.īut Fear State isn’t really Saint’s master plan in action: It’s his master plan falling apart, as Scarecrow builds on Gotham’s shaky recovery from the Joker War to make sure there isn’t a single edifice in the city that its people can rely on, from the police, whether public or private, to their resident superheroes, or even their own neighbors. Image: James Tynion IV, Jorge Jimenez/DC Comics (And if you missed the last edition, read this.) It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. Batman: Arkham Knight concluded with Scarecrow revealing Batmans identity as. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. Batman: Arkham Asylum is a video game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3. What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. So color me surprised and intrigued when the actual first issue of the crossover, Batman #112, pulled all those threads tight and yanked one cohesive big picture into view: Gotham’s current crisis was the Scarecrow’s plan all along. It felt like new cool characters and concepts - Poison Ivy’s college ex-girlfriend who looks like if Janelle Monae had plant powers, a neon-laced radical cyberpunk humanist faction called the Unsanity Collective, a teenage clowns-only vigilante - were being introduced left and right, but with barely any time to enjoy them. I’ll be the first admit that I had trouble staying engaged with Tynion’s Batman after the conclusion of Joker War. Now, Gotham City is a cyber-dystopia ruled by heavily armed police with advanced tech out the wazoo. James Tynion IV is wrapping up his run on Batman with Fear State, a new arc/status quo for Gotham City teased in this year’s Future State event.
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