Batman #1
Tom King (w), David Finch (a)
DC Comics

Liz says: I’ve been a fan of Tom King since his arrival at DC when he (along with co-writer Tim Seeley) surprised the heck out of me with their run on ‘Grayson’, creating a book bolder, funnier and more full of heart than any other DC book I’d read since the beginning of the New 52.

He has since become one of the most buzzed-about names in comics, with his magnificent turn on ‘The Vision’ and his slow-burn political thriller ‘Sheriff of Babylon’. I am certainly in a majority of fans that rejoiced when he was announced as the Batman series writer. I have been counting down the days to his first issue, and now that day has come.

One of the things I liked most about this is that, despite the fact that throughout most of the issue Batman is plummeting to his imminent, unavoidable death on the back of a crashing plane, it’s actually a rather leisurely-paced setup for the issue’s big reveal. It’s only when you get to the very last page that you see what King’s story is going to be about, and when you do, you may be as astonished as I was that this concept has never really been done before with Batman. Unless it has? But it hasn’t… We’re all pretty sure that it hasn’t. Well, go read it for yourself and let me know!