>>150182919
>this was what they were hyping
This is the very definition of a milquetoast Batman issue. This wasn't a brand new #1, this was filler number 37 level. I'm not even going to comment on
>Batman learns heckin empathy
because Batman being less
>VENGEANCE
and more
>let's just talk
has been a thing for years and years. Every single character's sissified now. But beyond that, there's literally nothing here to get anyone excited. It's just an average Batman filler issue. The big ending page is goddamn Tim Faggot. What am I, as a supposedly new reader, going to be hooked by?
>oh no, Batman's on the run from da law!
>oh boy, we have some cookie cutter tech being sold, this is just like Robocop, Judge Dredd and all muh heckin cyberpunk!
There's no villain setup. There's nothing new in any fashion. Fraction was going on and on about how this was a new and alive Gotham with an identity, a pop punk and gothic mix. Where is it? It's just the art having some bright lights on the cars. There's nothing else here.
>evil misogynistic white incels harass wholesome interracial lesbian couple while dressed in drag
What even is this? Not to mention that the majority of the book was already released as preview pages over time. Why does this even cost more than 4$, it's not got anything extra.

Can anyone say anything about this book that excites them? There's no direction. The solicits aren't teasing anything either. It's just one off Batman adventures but now gay and [current day]. Why would I spend my hard earned money on this? What is even the point?
>Batman hunts down an old villain we've seen 49585769668747 times
>Batman punches thugs
>the law hunts the Batman
...Okay? What is the direction? What is the idea? What differentiates this from a myriad other Batman issues? Why do they keep making utterly empty comics like this?

>silly
>goofy
>fun
>haha comix XD amiright
Why has the pendulum swung so far to the other side to the point where everything must be "silly" and "wholesome"? No matter where I go the slightest hint of taking something seriously, or adding some grit, is seen as "edgy" or "meanspirited" and whatever else. It's as if all fiction is now only being accepted if it stars moral paragons (according to the beliefs of the [current day]) going against some generic baddies who are not characteristically or uniquely evil but are just some brand of "bad", and everything must end with a big happy hug while everyone quips and there's a long therapy session or whatever else. Batman can't be a brooding gothic character because now he's a heckin daddy with 10 million kids and has to learn to have therapy talks while having silly adventures against megasharks, and everything else is "edgy". The FF can't have another space opera epic story because the family aspect is the only important thing and they should have one-off adventures where they battle space alien zombie dinosaurs till the end of time. And so on and so forth.

There's no edge to anything anymore, it's all extremely safe. And the majority of consumers want it all to be even safer. Just slice of life derivative nonsense until the end of time with no break inbetween. Why is everyone so averse to storytelling and conflict? It's as if everyone's gotten stuck on the level of cartoons for 5 Y/Os. The irony of the 10s has metastasised into a case where they can only consooom something if it's constantly chastising its fantasy as ridiculousness through "self-awareness".

>>149446248
>add Batman to my pull list after years and years because I find Fraction fun enough and I figured at worst it'd be his Iron Man run with bats everywhere
>2nd issue in it's Tim Faggot hogging the spotlight
I don't know why I keep doing this. I haven't read Batman for years, I skipped Snyder's nonsense, but I found Adventureman fun, so I figured how bad could it be. I guess I'm getting my answer...

>>149170604
>haha yes Mr. McNormalfag, it's not my super-brain, super-strength, super-speed, extremely technologically advanced fortress or any of that stuff that is my real super-power, it's the heckin human spirit
>shit, uh, cancer, woof, that's a bad one
>money problems too, huh? sorry I don't have any money, I kinda don't need anything, I'm an invulnerable alien
>...
>anyway, gotta go, remember McNormalfag, we're both equally powerful!
I hate this empty corporate hopeschlock so, so much...

>>212016943
>but the dead cuck said!
And?