Batman City of Bane: The Complete Collection

Great storyline, bane running the city and batman is Thomas Wayne who kills with guns just as easy as Bruce Wayne throws a batarang. Funny to see scarecrow and other villains as beat police walking the streets issuing tickets and beatings for things as stupid as the length of your dog leash. And all the great color and art work with the story is great. I'm not gonna lie after what I figured was the conclusion or would be, it kinda went off on its own and it was hard to follow but doesn't mean it was bad just I was a little lost especially by the thing with Bullock, you'll see what I mean but definitely worth a read for just the art work and story, among other things that are just great

Really good book and delivered great too

This book was really confusing at the beginning. It really could have used a paragraph or two to bring a new reader like me up-to-speed. Conversations are happening with people that don't match the panel you are seeing. Storylines hop all over the place with vague labels like "then" and "now". It was so frustrating that I almost gave up on the book. But I persisted and it ends up being pretty interesting with some really cool parts. It's no Night of the Owls, but its a good Batman storyline.

This book arrived on time and in great conduction.

Excellent storyline,loved it!

This is a tough one. I love Tom King, and I have a high opinion of his run on Batman as a whole (you can find all of my reviews of the previous TPBs here). I waited until the complete collection came out to finally read the final City of Bane arc, and unfortunately, aside from the beautiful artwork by Janin and others, it didn't quite work for me, and I've been struggling to articulate why.Art is subjective, and this is just one man's opinion, but King's style is stellar for certain things: technically precise writing, efficient use of panel structure, melancholy stories with emotional gut punches. He does all of that exceedingly well. What he doesn't do as well, at least for me, is long-form stories like this run on Batman.City of Bane has some intriguing ideas--a brainwashed police state, an insurgent Bat-family, a merciless Batman. And there are some issues and moments that stand out. But it doesn't quite come together. After a few twists and turns, the arc of the story is muddled, and it's not clear what we should care about. Should we focus on Batman versus Bane rivalry? The Thomas and Bruce relationship? The escalation of Batman and Catwoman's romance? The loss of a particular father figure (leaving that vague)? It's never really clear. The theme of suicide and finding the desire to live? The theme of shielding our loved ones from pain? You're told these various theses, in some explicit detail, over and over, and yet it's still not clear what the main "point" was supposed to be, I think.It's possible my opinion might change over time, but I think where King got tripped up on this run was not in the individual arcs, which were all great, but in the connective tissue. Time and again there were threads that either didn't play out or didn't seem believable. Gotham Girl laments her role in the death of the Batman in the first arc--we don't see that. Bane plays a complex psychological game that somehow anticipates and plays off of Batman's romance--we're told that after the fact. Batman apparently was also a step ahead of Bane's step ahead, and had plans with his family to counter Bane--again, we're given extensive explanations, but are never really part of the plan. There are mysteries, and then there are overly-detailed responses, but the questions don't really synch with the answers. The timing doesn't quite work. Neither a riddle nor a joke. A lead up, and not really a meaningful response.Instead, there's a lot of writing to justify scenarios, before and after the fact. Single issues in this run, even handfuls of pages, are brilliant. Some of the best Batman ever. But there's a lot of hoops to jump through to justify that brilliance, and lots of pages after to hand wave later.All in all, I think this is a necessary story in the Batman canon. It adds a lot, fleshes out Bruce's psychology in interesting ways, and does something that rarely happens (or lasts) in comics, it gives him growth.But unfortunately, unlike the Bat himself, this story never quite puts the pieces together, never really puts forth a long term mystery that makes sense and then gives a satisfying conclusion. And that's kind of a bummer for me, because I've been invested in this from the beginning and was hoping it'd build to something a bit more.

These other people are probably reading something different because this comic is amazing. It really emotional in some points. The detail of this book is incredible. And the printing it just fantastic.

Just as I expected. Lots of stories and action!

Está muy bien llegó en buenas condiciones

*no spoilers*So been reading comics since 1994 and got in and out of the hobby. Now after a 5 year hiatus, tried my hand on this story. Thought it was, like the old days, a self-contained story arc...but man the first two issues are so confusion when you haven't followed batman titles, and writer Tom king doesn't make it easy for you to jump into thi story. His writing style here of jumping scenes feel very forced. Mr. Kind did write better dialogue in this book, especially the scenes between batman and catwoman. Feels like George Lucas writing love scenes again, hahaha. Bad. This trade didn't wet my appetite to pick up more Tom King books of Batman. Positive is Tony s. Daniel is always a master at his comic art

Excellent item!

City of Bane closes Tom King's arc as fine dining for comic books - it serves the best and classic ingredients with an extra punch. Tom King writes with literary quality and drives the story like a Nascar driver - redlining every curve, gaming all the chances. Gotham is left behind by God and Country and Bane dictates the rules with his army of monsters. Bruce Wayne Will face his monsters, his deepest fears and... his father.

Like a previous reviewer wrote, I am a Tom King fan and I too waited to read the entirety of the City of Bane arc in this collection.It is a jumbled, disjointed, meandering mess. I feel like Tom was trying to do his best Grant Morrison impression with an existential, bizarre, nonsensical, meta-verse-multiversity based story and, as it usually does for Grant, it fails miserably.This is not the same writer that wrote "Sheriff of Baghdad", I'm not sure who this is. And, let's be honest, it's been coming for a while now. Knightmares, The Fall and Fallen, they've all been the same fever-dream, hazy, toxin-induced dreamscapes that just aren't moving the character, the narrative, the mythos or anything else forward.It's as though ever since Tom was told he wasn't going to realize his full run he went full Grant-Morrison, as everything since the Cat/Bat wedding has been, in a word, pointless.You never, NEVER, go full Grant-Morrison. We're talking almost 30 full issues of a Batman run that will be completely inconsequential in the future. They won't be referenced, they won't make animated films or live action films from these scripts, no one will talk about these issues as defining the character, or any character involved with Batman. It's incomprehensible what's happened here. Mind-boggling how this went so far off the rails as to finish like this... so, so... pointless.I've never skipped a panel in a previous Tom King book, I skimmed whole chapters of this book.It's that bad.