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That's great to hear, Drake! I just re-read The Court & Night of Owls arc, and it's exactly my Bat-vibe! Mystique, intrigue, and introspective reflection. I've been subscribed to your channel for quite a while. You and Owen have some great stuff!
Same. Didn't read much until civil war came out and my mom would get me those comics. Never was a big reader outside of ultimate Spider-Man and manga, then college hit and I stopped reading. Junior year of college and I discovered comixology which was the new 52 run and hopped onto Snyder's Batman and John's Green Lantern. Haven't stopped since. Snyder's Batman is the best I've read (I have a major collection now from the past few decades of major runs)
Same. My first comics ever owned were Issue 4 of New 52 Batman and 2 issues of Uncanny X-Men from the same time. My grandma bought em for me at an old style newspaper stand/book shop within a supermarket.
the only thing I didn't like about Scott Snyder's Batman run with what he did to mr. freeze he got rid of mr. Freeze's tragic backstory and turned him into another Nut Job by revealing that Nora wasn't his wife and that he was just straight-up crazy. I know I'm not alone in that because DC quickly reverted mr. Freeze's origin back to the tragic one,.
I wouldn't blame Snyder for that though. As I remember it was the editorial that wanted most of the characters to be revamped once the new52 started. my guess is that Snyder was just the hired gun to remake Mr Freeze, but I doubt that he was the one with the initiative to do so.
If you can't preview if you'll like it. Id say just read it. I think it's one of the better Batman runs there are. Zero Year is fucking great. The Court of Owls is epic as shit, in a great way. And Death of the Family is just creepy and awesome. Those complete the first 5 volumes of Snyder's run. Any criticism you may have heard about Snyder's Batman really only begins to take place after Zero Year. Where the stakes are just always a little too high. I loved Endgame but im a huge Batman fan, however it was confusing because i hadn't read Batman Eternal so like i said, after Zero Year it's really only worth reading the whole run if you really love Batman. But even if you're just a casual Batman fan, the first five trade paperback volumes are just well told stories and have amazing art. Especially Zero Year.
I’ve been revisiting the new 52, and I have to say that as much as I hate the overall changes to the DC Universe, many of the individual comics were actually pretty great. Great runs on Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Flash, Justice League, Batgirl, and Green Arrow, as well as some really cool smaller books like I, Vampire, Frankenstein, and Justice League Dark. At the time, I hated the removal of legacy characters, the condensing of the timeline, and the generally darker tone, but now when I read each book as an isolated story, they’re awesome.
@@mitch-TO thank you for saying this, superman was a mess there's no denying that, but most of the new 52 I actually enjoy the hell out of. It's not as good as pre-new 52 but it's still solid. I'd rather read new 52, than this dark crisis DC happening right now.
@@brandon17760 I've finished collecting all my favorite New52 stories (and there are a lot) and now I'm moving backward to pre-New52. There are very few current DC books that i have any interest in. Nightwing, Batgirls, and that's about it. Hopefully we'll see some more interesting storytelling with the Dawn of DC.
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Normally I would absolutely hate more blocky, cartoony art styles in comic books (I really, REALLY hate John Romita Jr's art, for example) but Capullo's art is amazingly good. It helps that it doesn't actually really FEEL all that cartoony.
The end of Zero Year - when Alfred imagines Julie and Bruce having a family, and Bruce putting Batman behind him - is one of the best moments in comics.
@@patduganz wow sorry but reading you comment kinda triggered some kind of PTSD of arguing with snyder(the director) fans, so I immediately went "OH SOD OFF when did that happen in the movie?" Lol
Something you pointed out that I agree with but don’t see mentioned that often…how Snyder and Capullo took Bruce away from the “Bat-God” interpretation and brought him back to someone who, even when down, will find his way back up. I can’t tell you how refreshing that was to see when it came out.
I love Snyder and Capullo’s Batman run. While it definitely had its highs and lows, the run has some of my favorite Batman comics ever written and so many fond memories. Wish we could get another consistently great Batman run sometime in the future. Great vid as always
Scott Snyder is among the best comic book writers of the modern age, in my opinion. He has a knack for changing the worlds of existing heroes in ways that make sense and have a permanent impact upon the continuity. Likewise, all of his solo comics take place in brilliantly unique worlds that can only be described as genius
Everyone talks about Snyder's Owl and Joker stories, but I think Zero Year gets criminally overlooked. Sure, maybe act 1 isn't great. It's just Year One combined with Killing Joke, only worse. But acts 2 & 3 are phenomenal and gripping, and further cemented why Riddler is my favorite Batman villain. It's probably my favorite arc of Snyder's run.
tbh, this batman run was my first dive into comics, which I think played a factor on why this is my favorite. In addition, the art is so beautiful/great, that it sort of inspired me to draw a more seriously (like adding/learning more correct anatomy etc. to create more interesting drawing even if the character is just standing). Capullo's style just looks cool to me.
Great video as always. I'll never understand why the Last Knight on Earth always overlooked when Snyder and Capullo's entire run is mentioned. Despite it's reception, I still feel like it's an important part of the whole Snyder/Capullo Batman saga.
I need to go back and properly read Last Knight. I chose not to include it here as I consider it more its own standalone story than a part of Snyder & Capullo's New 52 Batman saga.
This is my favorite Batman run ever. I own every issue and every annual. It was just so well written and told a complete, cohesive story from being to the end
superheavy in my opinion I thought was a mess and really didn't help that it was part of the dcyou era which wasn't great for a lot of other characters especially for superman wonder woman and the teen titans at least in my opinion. However that being said though gordon becoming batman while wasn't a really bad idea in theory execution wise in other books besides scott snyder's batman book, all the other writers who wrote Gordon as batman really didn't understand his character whatsoever and made a him a complete idiot in other books, but that being said though superheavy in itself isolated from the terrible DCYOU era isn't a bad story if anything its actually a very interesting story in itself with Gordon taking up the mantle of his old friend and keeping Gotham safe from this new threat Mr. bloom which I thought was very interesting at least in my opinion.
CApullo will forever be in top 3 batman artists, his clean lines, dark shadows, full of life and expresive characters sparked my love for the batman comics...together with one of my all time fovorite stories makes for a banger run
The old heads probably think 'Neil Adams' when they think 'batman art,' but I started with the New 52, and Capullo will always be the definitive batman artist, to me.
Read this run as it came out month by month. From Batman #1 to Last Knight #3. Full of high peaks and deep lows but overall some of these stories have a very special place in my heart.
Although I am a Superman fan, Batman has always been great since I first watched BMTAS, then got into comics in my teens and he already had a surreal amount of great arcs/ stories that just enthralled me. I stopped reading comics for awhile but started back up in my 20s. Then DC did the New 52 and I am glad I was able to read this as it came out. Unlike most I liked the relaunch, not everything but I sure wasn't hating on it like most seemed to. Loved the initial Superman run with Morrison at the helm, the art of Jim Lee on the new Justice League was just stunning, the Red Hood books were great as well but the Snyder run was definitely the cream of the crop in the New 52. There is just something about the great story with the Court of Owls with the amazing art from Capulo that was/is mind blowing. Once again these vids are just amazing. Keep up the great work and stay safe.
Snyder is one of the GREATEST Batman authors. His mix of horror tropes into superhero comics, as well as the PERFECT partnership with Capullo as the artist to embody a dark and horrific world with a human vigilante hero is such a perfect mix.
Say what you will about the New 52 (especially the latter day DCYOU thing they tried before Rebirth), but if not for that, I would not be anywhere near as much of a comic fan as I am today. I grew up with Spider-Man comics, but it wasn't until the New 52 that I felt like I could grab books from the fascinating but previously daunting DC side of the weekly New Comics wall. That actually sparked my interest in then branching out to the rest of Marvel and the Indie circuit. I loved the Snyder/Capullo run and feel fortunate to have been a monthly comic reader while that was being published.
Owen Like Comics, I hope you can upload a video about how Grant Morrison redefining Animal Man, Paul Levitz's Legion of Super-Heroes, Mark Waid's Flash and Geoff Johns' Green Lantern.
Let's not forget that those ridiculous underwear on the outside of the Batsuit were removed during this solid run as well (so it looked more like combat armour that Bruce was wearing).
How Scott and Snyder AND GREG CAPULLO redifined batman. Scott and Greg did comic things without one another but they wasnt shit. Their combination though was godlike
Excellent review and analysis of this run! This is my favourite Batman arc that really showcases top-notch writing. I thought the Court of Owls was chilling and shook things up in such an unexpected way. I loved how everything was weaved together with Batman’s history and gave way to new ideas in his mythos. Keep up the great work, Owen!
I heavily got into comics (mostly DC) bc of this run a few years back when i heard that Gordon became Batman & i had to find out what that was about. Most ppl say that was a whack move to do Bruce like that, but I thought it was an interesting move since it pulled a new dedicated reader like me in
My intro to Comics was the New 52 Detective comics. So I was really confused when I saw Joker’s face in the GCPD at the end of Dollmaker’s Family. I was 10 at the time so I was too scared to read anymore lol. But I eventually did read Death of The Family and Endgame after a while, so it was nice to finally get some closure on that.
Scott Synder and Greg Capullo's Batman run was my introduction into superhero comics and is still probably my favorite batman story. I got the omnibuses earlier this year and reread the whole thing.
My earliest memory of The New 52 was my dad buying the issue of Bruce in the maze on a Comic App and I read it and I got traumatised from the image of Bruce becoming a giant owl. Now that I’m older and can now afford to make life choices on buying comics, I buy a lotta graphic novels. I started collecting the New 52 Batman book. And I damn adore them, despite the trauma. Zero Year becoming one of my favourite books of all time. Truly the highlight of The New 52. Thank you for this remarkable tribute.
I loved the new 52.. It's had the right level of DC darkness, some goofier runs, the art was for the most part amazing across the board, goeff John's lantern, gale Simone Batgirl (before the purple suit) Kyle Higgins nightwing, I forget their names but the batman and Robin comic was sick and on top of the hill was Snyder and capollo litteraly topping themselves in writing and art every single issue for 50+ issues I'd love to see you do retrospectives on the other new 52 series especially the ones involving the bat family
Loved this, Owen! Snyder and Capullo's Batman was the first "run" of Batman I've ever read, and I'm so glad I did. Zero Year is genius. The way Capullo's art and Nick Napolitano's lettering makes your eye follow the path of the swinging crane hook, right in the first issue? And the inspired moment when Snyder and Capullo choose to intercut Bruce's failure to stop Gotham being flooded with the muder of his parents, so they collectively illustrate Bruce's helplessness? Easily my favourite telling of what is normally a well-worn origin. The whole of Zero Year is so creative, and especially impressive given what it had to live up to. Just a slight correction: Julie Madison's father is Mallory Madison, the man who sold a gun to Joe Chill, rather than Chill himself. Easy mistake to make though, given Julie's role near Superheavy's climax of creating Batman as her father did. But speaking of Superheavy? I totally agree with you that its Bruce Wayne story is its strongest element; in fact, I'd argue it's one of the most profound Bruce Wayne stories ever told. The choice to flip the easily answerable question of "Will Batman come back?" to the far more complex "SHOULD Batman come back?" is such a neat solution, presenting the inevitability of Bruce putting the cowl back on as an unavoidable tragedy. And what a statement it ultimately makes about Bruce, the man often dismissed as somebody putting on a Bat costume to make himself feel better over his parents' deaths. Even when free from the trauma of that memory and with a genuinely happy life, Bruce chooses to give it all up when his city is in danger and nobody else can help. It does such a good job of reaffirming the heroism of Batman, completing the deconstruction and reconstruction that took place during this run. And that's not even touching on the one-shots; I will never forget the intese emotion at the final image of Resolve, how it compounded my love for the story and the entire series. I first read Synder and Capullo's Batman during the early months of the pandemic, so it was my personal coping mechanism during that very dark period of all our lives. I really appreciate the opportunity to revisit the run in this way, so thank you so much for making this!
Snyder actually did the Riddler justice. Wrote the character like a true genius and more importantly a legitimate threat to Batman and Gotham. All while keeping a lot of what makes the Riddler the Riddler. Someone finally did my favorite Batman villain justice.
I'll admit I'm not a fan of the New 52, but I can say that this take on Batman by Scott Snyder has to be without a doubt one of my favorite eras in the Dark Knight's history.
Another banger, owen. Thank god superheavy and zero year got some love. Those were my favorites. Even though snyder was living up to his own professed love of morrison's work and seemed to be almost imitating them at times (justice league, dark nights metal), his work was incredible, regardless. You can always tell his batman is the optimistic one full of joy and love of doing what's right and a firm rejection of cynicism. And that's what works best in his whole run. Still love it and you made me want to give it a whole new reread yet again
This run has my favorite Bruce Wayne too. He has a good heart, he's not perfect but he always tries to do the right thing and no matter how many times he gets his ass kicked or knocked down he keeps getting up and never stops fighting for Gotham and the people
This is still my favourite batman run despite its flaws. I just love the way Scott writes Batman and Capullo’s art is easily my favourite from any run I have read.
My love for Batman started when I was still a little boi when watching Justice League/Justice League Unlimited. But I rediscovered my love for Batman when reading Scott Snyder's books. When I was reading his run,I can feel Scott's love for the character. Hell,even when reading his Justice League run. You can feel the passion that he has for these characters. AWESOME video as always Owen!
I love the art of that run, but the story... Other than the opening arc, the court of owls, I don't like any of it. A lot of bad, and later dropped ideas. I haven't being able to return to read Batman after that run, and All star Batman (the one written by Snyder too). Made me hate the character and most of the bat-family and enemies. That's very sad, because I was really excited because of Snyder taking Batman after Black Mirror, which is one of my favorite Batman stories of all time.
Agreed, Black Mirror and Court of Owls were amazing and fresh, and clearly the ideas Snyder was most passionate about. Zero Year was cool but it really didn’t need to be another origin story, the Joker stories were fun but there are no real consequences, and Superheavy was very silly.
Scott Snyder is _the_ best Batman comic book writer ever. Court of Owls is my favorite comic book story and Scott Snyder's run is my favorite comic run of all time
Amazing video, this channel deserves so much supoort, even more if he decides to expand and start talking about indie comics besides the amazing DC/Marvel explorations. ;)
Would say *Zero Year is better than Year one.* Since at this point Batman has a foot in the 22nd Century and the DC Universe is too grand for Year one to fit properly even as an early Batman. Year One really works better as an elseworld now or only ONLY if you're planning on only indulging in the retro to vintage Batman stuff. While Zero is awesome and gives a better sample of the Batman small world cast you will see in Batman almost seamless to any other Batman run after you're done. Weird to think but Year one isn't as transplantable as John Bynes Superman and Perez's Wonder Woman reboot
Batman was one of my favorite New 52 titles. Court Of Owls, Death Of The Family, Endgame... Great stuff! Of course, I was a Batfan for years before the event, too!
this is a great video and I love the new intro. Scott Snyder made me fall in love with Batman all over again. just the whole 51 issue run and what he continues to do.
This run is so fascinating! Though I’m personally mixed on some of it. I adore parts other parts not so much but it doesn’t take away how interesting it is to talk about.
Scott Synders and Greg Capullo's run was a great run in my opinion. I enjoyed the story telling and i even enjoyed the "Super Heavy" arc. I thought it was a cool different take on Batman and seeing Gordon find his way on how to be "Batman" because he isn't bruce, was an intriguing thing to read through. I will even admit, it was kind of calming to see Bruce, just working amongst the people and just living his life. Though of course when his memory was restored and you see that look in his eyes in that panel. All you can think of is "He's back, brooding, and ready put heads on swivels".
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman may not have been my first Batman series I started with, but when I did it was the most amazing and intriguing series I collected till the end. Scott’s writing has been a big inspiration and I can’t see anyone else writing a modern Batman like him, and Greg’s art made every storyline that much more epic, though some fill in artists came in from time to time Scott and Greg were a dream team for Batman and they formed a brotherhood over this series and the creative passion to make Batman not just a superhero, but to show how human he really is and not show it in a bad light like most people will do now a days. I often look back most at Death of the Family and Zero Year as they were some of the runs I enjoyed the most along with The Court of Owls. If we ever got another series of Batman being written and drawn by Scott and Greg then I’m collecting it when it hits the shelves.
Loved this run and your analysis of it was pretty spot on. Also, I appreciate how you structured the video by going over Zero Year before the two Joker arcs, as DotF and Endgame read much better back to back in my opinion. Great video, would like to see a look at Robert Venditti’s Green Lantern work from you someday.
I think its worth remembering that in the late Sixties Batman was going to be cancelled. It seems Neal Adams's take on the character saved him from this fate I think it is interesting how characters can recover from actual cancillation, specifically the X-Men. Their revival was stunning.
This might be a hot take, but I think it’s somewhat disappointing that DC Editorial wanted to have their cake and eat it too regarding Batman’s history. I wonder what a Batman reboot would look like that allowed a new writer to retell famous Batman stories like The Killing Joke, Death In The Family, Knightfall or Hush, not so dissimilar from Ultimate Spiderman? Great video once again, Owen.
Man, this run really got me back into reading comics. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo really had such great creative synergy. Scott Snyder writing Batman is always something special like in Batman Black Mirror, and his All-Star Batman run, it always feels fresh and genuine to me. Its crazy how after Grant Morrison's massive 7 year run we got this great era following it! I even liked some of Tom King's run even though it lost me towards the end, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on King's run at some point. Anyway, thanks for the great videos as always hope you're doing well!
Scott Snyder Batman run was such a very interesting series especially since it was probably the only good thing that survived the new 52 at least in my opinion.
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I wished we could have seen how Scott Snyder adapted Zatanna into Batman mythos disliked how New 52 paired her with Constantine
This is the book that got me into comics as a whole. 🤙
Hell yeah, I have such fond memories of reading this series as it was coming out!
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That's great to hear, Drake! I just re-read The Court & Night of Owls arc, and it's exactly my Bat-vibe! Mystique, intrigue, and introspective reflection. I've been subscribed to your channel for quite a while. You and Owen have some great stuff!
I read Scott Snyder’s Batman when I first really started getting into comics, so it’s really nice seeing this video pop up in my feed.
Same. Didn't read much until civil war came out and my mom would get me those comics. Never was a big reader outside of ultimate Spider-Man and manga, then college hit and I stopped reading. Junior year of college and I discovered comixology which was the new 52 run and hopped onto Snyder's Batman and John's Green Lantern. Haven't stopped since. Snyder's Batman is the best I've read (I have a major collection now from the past few decades of major runs)
Same. My first comics ever owned were Issue 4 of New 52 Batman and 2 issues of Uncanny X-Men from the same time. My grandma bought em for me at an old style newspaper stand/book shop within a supermarket.
Same here. New 52 Batman was how I started reading comics.
That's probably why you got really into comics tbh. This era of DC was incredible! Red lanterns was dope
Same broski
the only thing I didn't like about Scott Snyder's Batman run with what he did to mr. freeze he got rid of mr. Freeze's tragic backstory and turned him into another Nut Job by revealing that Nora wasn't his wife and that he was just straight-up crazy. I know I'm not alone in that because DC quickly reverted mr. Freeze's origin back to the tragic one,.
I wouldn't blame Snyder for that though. As I remember it was the editorial that wanted most of the characters to be revamped once the new52 started. my guess is that Snyder was just the hired gun to remake Mr Freeze, but I doubt that he was the one with the initiative to do so.
Yeah. The new 52 version of Mr. Freeze is not good at all. It ruins what the character originally fought for ever since his animated series redux.
What's funny is that Snyder himself was the one to revert the origin.
If you can't preview if you'll like it. Id say just read it. I think it's one of the better Batman runs there are. Zero Year is fucking great. The Court of Owls is epic as shit, in a great way. And Death of the Family is just creepy and awesome. Those complete the first 5 volumes of Snyder's run. Any criticism you may have heard about Snyder's Batman really only begins to take place after Zero Year. Where the stakes are just always a little too high. I loved Endgame but im a huge Batman fan, however it was confusing because i hadn't read Batman Eternal so like i said, after Zero Year it's really only worth reading the whole run if you really love Batman. But even if you're just a casual Batman fan, the first five trade paperback volumes are just well told stories and have amazing art. Especially Zero Year.
@@litcomicsproductions5359 maybe im just too attached to Year 1 but i really didnt like Zero Year
If only the rest of the New 52 was as good as Batman’s run
I’ve been revisiting the new 52, and I have to say that as much as I hate the overall changes to the DC Universe, many of the individual comics were actually pretty great.
Great runs on Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Flash, Justice League, Batgirl, and Green Arrow, as well as some really cool smaller books like I, Vampire, Frankenstein, and Justice League Dark.
At the time, I hated the removal of legacy characters, the condensing of the timeline, and the generally darker tone, but now when I read each book as an isolated story, they’re awesome.
@@mitch-TO This!
@@mitch-TO thank you for saying this, superman was a mess there's no denying that, but most of the new 52 I actually enjoy the hell out of. It's not as good as pre-new 52 but it's still solid. I'd rather read new 52, than this dark crisis DC happening right now.
@@brandon17760 I've finished collecting all my favorite New52 stories (and there are a lot) and now I'm moving backward to pre-New52. There are very few current DC books that i have any interest in. Nightwing, Batgirls, and that's about it. Hopefully we'll see some more interesting storytelling with the Dawn of DC.
@@mitch-TO you should check out justice league from Dwayne McDuffie, I enjoyed that, Gotham city sirens is good, and birds of prey is good as well
It's not a perfect run, but I'll always love it. Also Capullo's art on this run is insane.
Genuinely Capullo is one of my all-time favourite Batman artists. He knocked this entire run out the park!
Capullo's Batman style is iconic. I can't get enough of it.
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Normally I would absolutely hate more blocky, cartoony art styles in comic books (I really, REALLY hate John Romita Jr's art, for example) but Capullo's art is amazingly good. It helps that it doesn't actually really FEEL all that cartoony.
The end of Zero Year - when Alfred imagines Julie and Bruce having a family, and Bruce putting Batman behind him - is one of the best moments in comics.
And it almost happening in Superheavy 😪
@@wangiscampfire9900 Yep. I think it's sort of the heart of tragedy in Snyder's Batman. That Bruce could be happy, but chooses this instead.
@@patduganz wow sorry but reading you comment kinda triggered some kind of PTSD of arguing with snyder(the director) fans, so I immediately went "OH SOD OFF when did that happen in the movie?" Lol
@@107Pedro It’s okay. Zach can’t hurt us anymore.
@@patduganz he chooses the happiness of others over his own by being Batman.
Something you pointed out that I agree with but don’t see mentioned that often…how Snyder and Capullo took Bruce away from the “Bat-God” interpretation and brought him back to someone who, even when down, will find his way back up. I can’t tell you how refreshing that was to see when it came out.
Didn’t he bring batgod back with Barbatos?
I love Snyder and Capullo’s Batman run. While it definitely had its highs and lows, the run has some of my favorite Batman comics ever written and so many fond memories. Wish we could get another consistently great Batman run sometime in the future. Great vid as always
The introduction of the Owls is probably one of the most impactful Batman stories ever. (It’s also the first comic I ever bought)
Great job, Owen! There’s so many different ideas and topics throughout Snyder and Capullo’s run and it was great seeing you cover this enormous story.
Scott Snyder is among the best comic book writers of the modern age, in my opinion. He has a knack for changing the worlds of existing heroes in ways that make sense and have a permanent impact upon the continuity. Likewise, all of his solo comics take place in brilliantly unique worlds that can only be described as genius
What a coincidence, 2 Snyders one ruined Batman and the other achieved heights with him
Everyone talks about Snyder's Owl and Joker stories, but I think Zero Year gets criminally overlooked. Sure, maybe act 1 isn't great. It's just Year One combined with Killing Joke, only worse. But acts 2 & 3 are phenomenal and gripping, and further cemented why Riddler is my favorite Batman villain. It's probably my favorite arc of Snyder's run.
tbh, this batman run was my first dive into comics, which I think played a factor on why this is my favorite. In addition, the art is so beautiful/great, that it sort of inspired me to draw a more seriously (like adding/learning more correct anatomy etc. to create more interesting drawing even if the character is just standing). Capullo's style just looks cool to me.
Capulo's art is really awesome, it looks old school and at the same time modern.
Great video as always. I'll never understand why the Last Knight on Earth always overlooked when Snyder and Capullo's entire run is mentioned. Despite it's reception, I still feel like it's an important part of the whole Snyder/Capullo Batman saga.
I need to go back and properly read Last Knight. I chose not to include it here as I consider it more its own standalone story than a part of Snyder & Capullo's New 52 Batman saga.
This is my favorite Batman run ever. I own every issue and every annual. It was just so well written and told a complete, cohesive story from being to the end
superheavy in my opinion I thought was a mess and really didn't help that it was part of the dcyou era which wasn't great for a lot of other characters especially for superman wonder woman and the teen titans at least in my opinion. However that being said though gordon becoming batman while wasn't a really bad idea in theory execution wise in other books besides scott snyder's batman book, all the other writers who wrote Gordon as batman really didn't understand his character whatsoever and made a him a complete idiot in other books, but that being said though superheavy in itself isolated from the terrible DCYOU era isn't a bad story if anything its actually a very interesting story in itself with Gordon taking up the mantle of his old friend and keeping Gotham safe from this new threat Mr. bloom which I thought was very interesting at least in my opinion.
CApullo will forever be in top 3 batman artists, his clean lines, dark shadows, full of life and expresive characters sparked my love for the batman comics...together with one of my all time fovorite stories makes for a banger run
His time on Spawn served him well with this run
The old heads probably think 'Neil Adams' when they think 'batman art,' but I started with the New 52, and Capullo will always be the definitive batman artist, to me.
Read this run as it came out month by month. From Batman #1 to Last Knight #3. Full of high peaks and deep lows but overall some of these stories have a very special place in my heart.
Although I am a Superman fan, Batman has always been great since I first watched BMTAS, then got into comics in my teens and he already had a surreal amount of great arcs/ stories that just enthralled me. I stopped reading comics for awhile but started back up in my 20s. Then DC did the New 52 and I am glad I was able to read this as it came out. Unlike most I liked the relaunch, not everything but I sure wasn't hating on it like most seemed to. Loved the initial Superman run with Morrison at the helm, the art of Jim Lee on the new Justice League was just stunning, the Red Hood books were great as well but the Snyder run was definitely the cream of the crop in the New 52. There is just something about the great story with the Court of Owls with the amazing art from Capulo that was/is mind blowing. Once again these vids are just amazing. Keep up the great work and stay safe.
Snyder is one of the GREATEST Batman authors. His mix of horror tropes into superhero comics, as well as the PERFECT partnership with Capullo as the artist to embody a dark and horrific world with a human vigilante hero is such a perfect mix.
Say what you will about the New 52 (especially the latter day DCYOU thing they tried before Rebirth), but if not for that, I would not be anywhere near as much of a comic fan as I am today.
I grew up with Spider-Man comics, but it wasn't until the New 52 that I felt like I could grab books from the fascinating but previously daunting DC side of the weekly New Comics wall. That actually sparked my interest in then branching out to the rest of Marvel and the Indie circuit. I loved the Snyder/Capullo run and feel fortunate to have been a monthly comic reader while that was being published.
Take it easy, sweetheart.
To me Scott Snyder is the definitive batman writer
No character has greater comics than Batman.
Owen Like Comics, I hope you can upload a video about how Grant Morrison redefining Animal Man, Paul Levitz's Legion of Super-Heroes, Mark Waid's Flash and Geoff Johns' Green Lantern.
All great ideas, thank you!
I count only two origins as definitive for Batman. Untold Legend and Zero Year.
Let's not forget that those ridiculous underwear on the outside of the Batsuit were removed during this solid run as well (so it looked more like combat armour that Bruce was wearing).
How Scott and Snyder AND GREG CAPULLO redifined batman. Scott and Greg did comic things without one another but they wasnt shit. Their combination though was godlike
RIP Queen Elizabeth II.
Excellent review and analysis of this run!
This is my favourite Batman arc that really showcases top-notch writing. I thought the Court of Owls was chilling and shook things up in such an unexpected way. I loved how everything was weaved together with Batman’s history and gave way to new ideas in his mythos.
Keep up the great work, Owen!
I heavily got into comics (mostly DC) bc of this run a few years back when i heard that Gordon became Batman & i had to find out what that was about. Most ppl say that was a whack move to do Bruce like that, but I thought it was an interesting move since it pulled a new dedicated reader like me in
Scott Snyder one of the best Batman comic book writer ever.
gotta do one on tom kings run!
it started great!
Grant Morrison run on batman was the first batman run I've finished, so I guess I'll read Scott Snyder's next...
My intro to Comics was the New 52 Detective comics. So I was really confused when I saw Joker’s face in the GCPD at the end of Dollmaker’s Family. I was 10 at the time so I was too scared to read anymore lol. But I eventually did read Death of The Family and Endgame after a while, so it was nice to finally get some closure on that.
About rebirth... ah I see what you did there 😉
Awesome retrospective 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😎
Scott Synder and Greg Capullo's Batman run was my introduction into superhero comics and is still probably my favorite batman story. I got the omnibuses earlier this year and reread the whole thing.
I think this is a well done restrospective. Out of interest are you planning on (or have done in the past) a retrospective for Superman new 52?
Hey Owen great video as usual, can you do a followup video explaining all orders subsequent Snyder/Capullo stories and if they tie to this run?
I needed this video - well done and got me up to pace on some of the issues I missed out on
Snyder’s Batman and Swamp Thing runs were the only redeeming parts of New52.
Good video. I see now that death of the family is the missing piece in my collected run. Superheavy looks a bit naff tho’!
My earliest memory of The New 52 was my dad buying the issue of Bruce in the maze on a Comic App and I read it and I got traumatised from the image of Bruce becoming a giant owl.
Now that I’m older and can now afford to make life choices on buying comics, I buy a lotta graphic novels. I started collecting the New 52 Batman book. And I damn adore them, despite the trauma.
Zero Year becoming one of my favourite books of all time.
Truly the highlight of The New 52. Thank you for this remarkable tribute.
Maybe unpopular but Gregg Capullo is my favourite batman artist it justs looks so clean
Make a video about Batman: War Games.
That was the end of the BatFamily and Batman become a asshole.
Julie Madison wasn't Joe Chill's daughter she was the daughter of the man that sold Joe Chill the gun that killed his parents
I loved the new 52.. It's had the right level of DC darkness, some goofier runs, the art was for the most part amazing across the board, goeff John's lantern, gale Simone Batgirl (before the purple suit) Kyle Higgins nightwing, I forget their names but the batman and Robin comic was sick and on top of the hill was Snyder and capollo litteraly topping themselves in writing and art every single issue for 50+ issues
I'd love to see you do retrospectives on the other new 52 series especially the ones involving the bat family
The best part of this run for me was the court of owls.
Loved this, Owen! Snyder and Capullo's Batman was the first "run" of Batman I've ever read, and I'm so glad I did.
Zero Year is genius. The way Capullo's art and Nick Napolitano's lettering makes your eye follow the path of the swinging crane hook, right in the first issue? And the inspired moment when Snyder and Capullo choose to intercut Bruce's failure to stop Gotham being flooded with the muder of his parents, so they collectively illustrate Bruce's helplessness? Easily my favourite telling of what is normally a well-worn origin. The whole of Zero Year is so creative, and especially impressive given what it had to live up to.
Just a slight correction: Julie Madison's father is Mallory Madison, the man who sold a gun to Joe Chill, rather than Chill himself. Easy mistake to make though, given Julie's role near Superheavy's climax of creating Batman as her father did.
But speaking of Superheavy? I totally agree with you that its Bruce Wayne story is its strongest element; in fact, I'd argue it's one of the most profound Bruce Wayne stories ever told. The choice to flip the easily answerable question of "Will Batman come back?" to the far more complex "SHOULD Batman come back?" is such a neat solution, presenting the inevitability of Bruce putting the cowl back on as an unavoidable tragedy. And what a statement it ultimately makes about Bruce, the man often dismissed as somebody putting on a Bat costume to make himself feel better over his parents' deaths. Even when free from the trauma of that memory and with a genuinely happy life, Bruce chooses to give it all up when his city is in danger and nobody else can help. It does such a good job of reaffirming the heroism of Batman, completing the deconstruction and reconstruction that took place during this run.
And that's not even touching on the one-shots; I will never forget the intese emotion at the final image of Resolve, how it compounded my love for the story and the entire series. I first read Synder and Capullo's Batman during the early months of the pandemic, so it was my personal coping mechanism during that very dark period of all our lives. I really appreciate the opportunity to revisit the run in this way, so thank you so much for making this!
Hey Owen great video as usual, can you do a followup video explaining all orders subsequent Snyder/Capullo stories and if they tie to this run?
Batman is a great character, but DC should use more their other characters, they are awesome and Bruce is overused.
Snyder actually did the Riddler justice. Wrote the character like a true genius and more importantly a legitimate threat to Batman and Gotham. All while keeping a lot of what makes the Riddler the Riddler. Someone finally did my favorite Batman villain justice.
I'll admit I'm not a fan of the New 52, but I can say that this take on Batman by Scott Snyder has to be without a doubt one of my favorite eras in the Dark Knight's history.
Another banger, owen. Thank god superheavy and zero year got some love. Those were my favorites. Even though snyder was living up to his own professed love of morrison's work and seemed to be almost imitating them at times (justice league, dark nights metal), his work was incredible, regardless. You can always tell his batman is the optimistic one full of joy and love of doing what's right and a firm rejection of cynicism. And that's what works best in his whole run. Still love it and you made me want to give it a whole new reread yet again
This run has my favorite Bruce Wayne too. He has a good heart, he's not perfect but he always tries to do the right thing and no matter how many times he gets his ass kicked or knocked down he keeps getting up and never stops fighting for Gotham and the people
Speaking of Batman and the New 52, Peter J. Tomasis/Patrick Gleasons Batman & Robin-Run was also absolutely awesome!
We just gon ignore that Bruce has an alleged brother in the cour of owls story?😅
I loved this run. Best thing about the New 52 in my opinion.
This is still my favourite batman run despite its flaws. I just love the way Scott writes Batman and Capullo’s art is easily my favourite from any run I have read.
My love for Batman started when I was still a little boi when watching Justice League/Justice League Unlimited. But I rediscovered my love for Batman when reading Scott Snyder's books. When I was reading his run,I can feel Scott's love for the character. Hell,even when reading his Justice League run. You can feel the passion that he has for these characters. AWESOME video as always Owen!
I love the art of that run, but the story... Other than the opening arc, the court of owls, I don't like any of it. A lot of bad, and later dropped ideas. I haven't being able to return to read Batman after that run, and All star Batman (the one written by Snyder too). Made me hate the character and most of the bat-family and enemies. That's very sad, because I was really excited because of Snyder taking Batman after Black Mirror, which is one of my favorite Batman stories of all time.
Agreed, Black Mirror and Court of Owls were amazing and fresh, and clearly the ideas Snyder was most passionate about. Zero Year was cool but it really didn’t need to be another origin story, the Joker stories were fun but there are no real consequences, and Superheavy was very silly.
I read Morrison, then Snyder, and then rebirth annnnnnd i got to rebirth like WHAT HAPPENED?!?! 😅
This was one of my first full comic runs, and definitely one of my favorite Batman runs. It’s absolutely incredible!
Best version of the joker
this and Swamp Thing were the BEST the new 52 had to offer.
I just read court of owls couple weeks ago amazing book
Scott Snyder is _the_ best Batman comic book writer ever. Court of Owls is my favorite comic book story and Scott Snyder's run is my favorite comic run of all time
The first collection I fully collected on trade and I always revisit it!
Amazing video, this channel deserves so much supoort, even more if he decides to expand and start talking about indie comics besides the amazing DC/Marvel explorations. ;)
Would say *Zero Year is better than Year one.* Since at this point Batman has a foot in the 22nd Century and the DC Universe is too grand for Year one to fit properly even as an early Batman. Year One really works better as an elseworld now or only ONLY if you're planning on only indulging in the retro to vintage Batman stuff. While Zero is awesome and gives a better sample of the Batman small world cast you will see in Batman almost seamless to any other Batman run after you're done. Weird to think but Year one isn't as transplantable as John Bynes Superman and Perez's Wonder Woman reboot
I freakin loved zero year. I always thought if they were to ever do a animated series reboot it should be based off zero year
I just wish Two Face got more love and time lol...
Perhaps the true Gotham was the friends we made along the way
Batman was one of my favorite New 52 titles.
Court Of Owls, Death Of The Family, Endgame... Great stuff!
Of course, I was a Batfan for years before the event, too!
Yes the video is out! Scott Snyder's run is one of the greatest batman runs.
this is a great video and I love the new intro. Scott Snyder made me fall in love with Batman all over again. just the whole 51 issue run and what he continues to do.
Scott Snyder’s Batman is my definitive version
This run is so fascinating! Though I’m personally mixed on some of it. I adore parts other parts not so much but it doesn’t take away how interesting it is to talk about.
Scott Synders and Greg Capullo's run was a great run in my opinion. I enjoyed the story telling and i even enjoyed the "Super Heavy" arc. I thought it was a cool different take on Batman and seeing Gordon find his way on how to be "Batman" because he isn't bruce, was an intriguing thing to read through. I will even admit, it was kind of calming to see Bruce, just working amongst the people and just living his life. Though of course when his memory was restored and you see that look in his eyes in that panel. All you can think of is "He's back, brooding, and ready put heads on swivels".
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman may not have been my first Batman series I started with, but when I did it was the most amazing and intriguing series I collected till the end. Scott’s writing has been a big inspiration and I can’t see anyone else writing a modern Batman like him, and Greg’s art made every storyline that much more epic, though some fill in artists came in from time to time Scott and Greg were a dream team for Batman and they formed a brotherhood over this series and the creative passion to make Batman not just a superhero, but to show how human he really is and not show it in a bad light like most people will do now a days. I often look back most at Death of the Family and Zero Year as they were some of the runs I enjoyed the most along with The Court of Owls. If we ever got another series of Batman being written and drawn by Scott and Greg then I’m collecting it when it hits the shelves.
The court of owls is one of my fav batman comics!
Loved this run and your analysis of it was pretty spot on. Also, I appreciate how you structured the video by going over Zero Year before the two Joker arcs, as DotF and Endgame read much better back to back in my opinion. Great video, would like to see a look at Robert Venditti’s Green Lantern work from you someday.
I think its worth remembering that in the late Sixties Batman was going to be cancelled. It seems Neal Adams's take on the character saved him from this fate I think it is interesting how characters can recover from actual cancillation, specifically the X-Men. Their revival was stunning.
Batman is the first comic book I ever read.
Greatest batman comic run ever IDGAF
This might be a hot take, but I think it’s somewhat disappointing that DC Editorial wanted to have their cake and eat it too regarding Batman’s history.
I wonder what a Batman reboot would look like that allowed a new writer to retell famous Batman stories like The Killing Joke, Death In The Family, Knightfall or Hush, not so dissimilar from Ultimate Spiderman?
Great video once again, Owen.
Great video! New 52 run is my favorite run on Batman
Great video, agree that this was a great run - the court of owls run is my favourite Batman story
The coloring was friggin amazing
Man, this run really got me back into reading comics. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo really had such great creative synergy. Scott Snyder writing Batman is always something special like in Batman Black Mirror, and his All-Star Batman run, it always feels fresh and genuine to me. Its crazy how after Grant Morrison's massive 7 year run we got this great era following it! I even liked some of Tom King's run even though it lost me towards the end, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on King's run at some point. Anyway, thanks for the great videos as always hope you're doing well!
This was one of the first omnibus I bought and really hooked me on Batman. Amazing run and video!
I really enjoyed Batman’s New 52 run, the court of owls build up was such a fun first time read. I really enjoyed the whole thing.
I love Scott Snyder's Batman run it's my favorite run in the new 52 era as well as Grant Morrison's action comics run.
I was lucky that my first ever time reading comics was after Batman Arkham city in 2011 so I got those epic Scott Snyder comics!
This is the run that got me into comics
Scott Snyder Batman run was such a very interesting series especially since it was probably the only good thing that survived the new 52 at least in my opinion.
I thought the justice league and batman and robin series was great as well
@@THEBATMAN_396 true both justice league and batman and robin series were both good but besides those two books everything else was just a clusterfuck and made no sense whatsoever but that's just my opinion.
@@TevyaSmolka imo wonder woman and aquaman were also pretty good.
@@NatrixNate fair enough
Love this run so much.