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A review by vivalibrarian
Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder
5.0
There's this great line towards the beginning of this book where Batman is quite literally flying thru the air on a motorcycle going after the bad guys who are in a helicopter. Yes, helicopter. When Alfred wonders if he should cancel his upcoming meeting, he scoffs, "This will only take a minute."
That is the Batman we are used to-cocky and confident that he knows Gotham City like no one else. That Batman doesn't stick around long. Is it possible that there are forces at work running Gotham that Batman doesn't know? If this Court of Owls he's heard about his whole life really exists, then everything he believes to be true is not.
There are a few authors that are my absolute favorite because of their depth of storytelling. They have a gift for pulling in the history and myth of things we know well into a story in an almost reverent way but at the same time pushes the reader beyond and into new territory. Even with something so well known as the Batman myth. Scott Snyder is fast becoming of those authors for me.
This book gathers #1-7 in the Court of Owls storyline together. Once I finished I downloaded #8-10 (isn't technology grand?)and #11-the end of the storyline is out this week. You cannot stop at #7...trust me.
*Update* #11 took the story down a notch for me only because of Batman. That crazy Batman. Has to know everything and if he doesn't know it, he works it into his new world order. To be expected, yes. Did I want something a little different? YES!
That is the Batman we are used to-cocky and confident that he knows Gotham City like no one else. That Batman doesn't stick around long. Is it possible that there are forces at work running Gotham that Batman doesn't know? If this Court of Owls he's heard about his whole life really exists, then everything he believes to be true is not.
There are a few authors that are my absolute favorite because of their depth of storytelling. They have a gift for pulling in the history and myth of things we know well into a story in an almost reverent way but at the same time pushes the reader beyond and into new territory. Even with something so well known as the Batman myth. Scott Snyder is fast becoming of those authors for me.
This book gathers #1-7 in the Court of Owls storyline together. Once I finished I downloaded #8-10 (isn't technology grand?)and #11-the end of the storyline is out this week. You cannot stop at #7...trust me.
*Update* #11 took the story down a notch for me only because of Batman. That crazy Batman. Has to know everything and if he doesn't know it, he works it into his new world order. To be expected, yes. Did I want something a little different? YES!