Batman #24 – Review

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Greg Capullo (pencils), Danny Miki (inks), FCO Plascencia (colors) and Nick Napolitano (letters)

Back-up by: Snyder & James Tynion (writers), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) and Taylor Esposito (letters)

The Story: Batman finally hatches his plan to take down the Red Hood.

Review (with SPOILERS): Boom!  Batman is really back!

I’ve had difficulties enjoying the first several issues of Zero Year (beginning with issue #21 in June).  It was the first Bat-related story from Scott Snyder that I haven’t LOVED (since he started working on Detective Comics  in the Old 52).  It was weird and shocking for me NOT to think the Snyder/Capullo Batman was among the Top 10 comics in current publication.  I just didn’t enjoy revisiting Batman’s origin for a whole pile of reasons that you can find in those older reviews.  Mostly it was because the origin conflicted with my preferred Old 52 origins and the fact that Bruce Wayne stories are usually less interesting than Batman stories.  Has there ever been a comic called Bruce Wayne: The Death of the Parents #1?  No… Well, there’s probably a reason for that.  Bruce is less than Batman.