Batman: Fortress

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But it's also expertly paced with amusing dialogue and a central mystery that's surprisingly crunchy. Set in an alternate timeline, Earth’s communication and power grids are shut down by a mysterious alien presence. Even if it did fit the themes and the whole book was cohesive in that sense it wouldn’t change the fact that at its core this was a directionless comic with no central point and nothing interesting to say about the characters. After the last issue, Batman and his team have finally found Superman and this series is finally drawing to a close.

The team that Batman assembles to accomplish the impossible task at the center of this story dares you to laugh at it, and there are some funny moments, but ultimately, it works. A decline in quality is to be expected when an artist has to work on a monthly comic but personally, I find that Robertson’s decline on this series is too steep. Gary Whitta ( Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and Darick Robertson ( The Boys ) have joined forces to tell a brutal and shocking adventure that will turn everything you think you know about Superman upside down! Batman: Fortress succeeds when taken on its merits as a heist adventure set within the DCU, with Batman assembling a crack team of experts to essentially break into the Fortress of Solitude and learn more about what’s going on. The non-human characters always fare better but they aren’t drawn to the best of Robertson’s abilities either.A very interesting and action packed Elseworlds story with a very interesting latter third and a really fun ending. Plus I always appreciate his ability to mostly be framing a grounded, up-close imagery but when it's needed to bounce between that and big action shots and dynamic pages, he can transition quite well. Sure, there were a number of things did not make much sense, like one character’s flawed reasoning behind a chosen response to something (not giving any spoilers), but the loyalty of one character towards his friend more than made up for that problem. Some of the character personalities are a bit off, but it can all be chalked up to the alternate timeline. For the heroes we need to have a gay kiss from multi-racial Aqua-guy, odd that no other character's sexuality was highlighted, almost like an agenda.

There were several conversations throughout the issue where I could feel the influence of screenwriting getting in the way. But the strengths in Fortress lie within its smaller moments rather than within its broad strokes, a distinction that comes into focus as the eponymous Fortress of Solitude enters the equation. In the mysterious absence of the Last Son of Krypton, Batman must rally the rest of the Justice League to counter the alien threat… but first, he must quell a crime wave on the blacked-out streets of Gotham!

Gary Whitta · Darick Robertson Batman: Fortress (Volume 1) was a limited series, published by DC Comics. Popverse is owned by Gamer Network Limited, a ReedPop company and subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions Limited. If I had to guess, I would say the majority of people are not familiar with either Whitta or Tomlin by name. When an unknown alien ship enters Earth’s atmosphere, disrupting global power and communications and plunging the planet into chaos, the world is left wondering…where is Superman when he is needed most?