Batman: Bloom Review

Finished reading Batman: Bloom, this brings an end to creative team Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo final story arc of DC's Batman series that began as part of DC's New 52 publishing line. The book opens up with Mr Bloom inside the Powers Building while being confronted by Jim Gordon. When Bloom escapes Jim goes to his boss Gerri to go after Bloom himself with is job on the line in order to stop him before the situation gets worse with the police coming in with their own Batman mechsuit's. Meanwhile on the other side of Gotham Duke Thomas is his Robin gear brakes into the Iceberg Lounge to find any information about Mr Bloom as the Penguin recently had a meeting with him which went down hill quite quickly. When Duke gets into trouble while trying to leave he gets some surprising help form Bruce Wayne, which leads to Duke deducing that Bruce Wayne is or rather was Batman. Which leads to Bruce going on on a journey of deciding whether he should become Batman again. Overall this was an amazing book as it brings an end to the Mr Bloom story in a great way as the story continues to have Jim Gordon's story as the main part of the book as Bloom is very much his villain which also making time to dive into Bruce's story of becoming Batman again without it taking to much time away for the conflict between Gordon and Bloom. The journey that Bruce takes to become Batman is great and extremely interesting as not only does Bruce become Batman again but writer Scott Snyder is able to give the story a great amount emotion that comes across thanks to the amount time that's been given to Bruce's live since his last fight with the Joker. The art by Greg Capullo continues to be amazing with the horror feel of the villainous Mr Bloom and his henchmen is creepy as anything and the action scenes are epic in scale and the amount of tension that is built within them. While the addition of Yanick Paquette art helps to convey some of the extremely emotional scene incredibly well, along with the time Bruce is in the machine that gives him back is memories of his time as Batman is visually structured in a very unique and creative way. 9/10.