Batman: I Am Gotham Review

Finished reading Batman: I Am Gotham, writer Tom King begins a new main Batman series as part of DC's Rebirth line as Batman finds himself facing a different predicament that he has face in so sort of firm before but not when it had been this close to home literally and figuratively. The book opens up with Batman's newest protégée, Duke Thomas coming to Wayne Manor for his first day while Batman is on the other side of Gotham fight the Calendar Man who is planning on releasing spores into the atmosphere, however when Batman stops the villain some spores are released leading to Gotham having a whole years worth of weather within the space of a week. The main story of the book opens with Batman taking to Commissioner Gordon when a passenger plane flying over is attacked by a rocket leading to Batman to try an prevent it for crash landing into the city by diverting it and only to survive due to the intervention on two new super powered people calling themselves Gotham and Gotham Girl who introduce themselves as the newest heroes of the city. Overall this was a great book as it begins a new series for Batman extremely well by giving him an intriguing situation to face which helps to bring out the more human side of the character and some classics antagonist's within the background of the book. The parallels between Batman and the new heroes of Gotham and Gotham Girl with how their origins and their initial believes on attempting to make Gotham a better which leads to some great interactions and even Batman questioning about his own life choices and how he became the person he is today. The artwork throughout the book is great and the main story's art by David Finch has some well crafted action scenes and the epilogue story art by Iran Reis captures the amount of emotion that Gotham Girl is going through extremely well. Additionally Mikel Janîn helps to design design a creepy need look and feel to the Calendar Man thanks to the story by writers Scott Snyder and Tom King. 8.5/10.