Batman: Superheavy Review

Finished reading Batman: Superheavy, dealing with the consequences of the Endgame story arc the creative team Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo continue their run on the series as former police commissioner Jim Gordon takes up the mantle of Batman after his predecessor was lose in the fight with the Joker. The book opens up two months after the event of Endgame with Gotham morning the lost of Batman, the CEO of Powers International, Geri Powers has created he own Batman initiative to hopefully fill the void left by the original. With former police commissioner Jim Gordon being her top candidate. After Gordon's first couple of mission ps he discovers that someone has been superpowers to gang members that Gordon has previously arrested during his time of the police force leads him to Bruce Wayne in hope he might have an idea since Wayne Industries develop most of the technology for the new Batman before Powers took over the company. Without Bruce's help Gordon decides to go rogue with the help of Julia, Alfred's daughter for the Batman Eternal series who knows the original Batman and is currently working with Gordon as the two try to find the new mysterious villain Mr Bloom. There is an additional towards the end of the book set just after the events of Zero Year as Bruce Wayne Batman finds himself on the case of the mysterious death of teenager Peter Duggio. Overall this was a great book as writer Scott Snyder with a different and interesting direction with Jim Gordon being the new Batman that give a different prospective on the world of superheroes thanks to his history in the police and the military. The reintroduction of Bruce Wayne is really impactful as this version of Bruce who has been healed completely has a much more brighter look on life with a girlfriend which still helping the people of Gotham in his own way, which sets the inevitable return of Bruce as Batman to be a very emotional scene. The flashback story is great as it does feel incredibly out of place as it does tie into the main story of the book by showing that Mr Bloom has been about earlier without anyone knowing while also set seeds of a revolution at the end of the book. The artwork throughout the book is great as artist Greg Capullo continues to deliver on the series, from the monstrous designs of the villains to the highly intense action. While Jock's artwork for the flashback story gives a noir feel to it that works perfectly what writer Scott Snyder and the story's cowriter Brian Azzarello have written. 8/10.