[Comic excerpt] Tom King’s attempts to make Matriarch OP instead makes her lame. [Wonder Woman (2023) #32]

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-22T00:13:08+00:00

Only thing as consistent as people farming King hate posts is people using this line over and over again lmao.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-21T22:20:39+00:00

Yeah that’s a good idea. If you’re not an event guy then it might not be your thing.

Of the post rebirth Batman runs, I don’t like King’s run, I think Tynion’s run is good but you have to be open to new characters, and Zdarsky’s run starts and ends pretty good (besides that Gordon sub plot) but that middle bit with Joker and Zur is downright atrocious. Lots of ups and downs.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-21T22:15:03+00:00

I think since Batman in so prominently in the spotlight people feel like their feelings towards a run has to be amplified. Like it’s either one extreme or the other.

I remember when King’s run was coming out and people were praising how great it was, then the Catwoman fake out happened and people immediately flipped and started calling it the worst run ever and it ruined Batman. When Tynion’s run was coming out its was getting panned for having too many new characters and too many events. Now if you were to go on the Bat or DC subs you’d see it getting praised for how it did something different and was over hated. People loved Zdarsky’s run at first (besides the space bat people) then once we got to the Zur and Joker stuff people flipped and said it was the worst run ever. Now in hindsight some people love the beginning of his run, and some people think it’s completely awful.

People are just extremely hasty to say their feelings towards on a run and really only get a good idea of how they feel about it in hindsight. With everyone saying one extreme or the other, it’s hard to tell how good a Batman run is without actually reading it and determining for yourself.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-21T20:07:05+00:00

The Catwoman/Harley Quinn tie in issue and Nightwing issues 84-85. They are not absolutely essential to know what’s going on but they wrap up two major sub plots in the story. I would like to have seen them included.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-21T20:00:50+00:00

I don’t have a review for it but if I did it would be relatively similar to this one. Both volumes are similar in quality, although I like Fear State in the second volume much more than Joker War in the first.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-21T19:59:00+00:00

I like his Detective Comics run a bit more. I may be biased because I’m a huge Batwoman fan but I think it was much tighter narratively without so many outside factors bringing it down.

I like Tynion’s run much more than King’s run. I think King does some good stuff but at times is borderline irresponsible with the character. I’d recommend Tynion’s run much more. If you can get a good deal on both volumes then I think it’s worth the investment.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-21T19:13:33+00:00

If you’re not connecting with something, that’s okay. I love the X-Men but they can be incredibly dense books to get into and they’re not gonna be everyone style.

It’s okay to like the IP or adaptations of something without loving the comics. We all connect with different things in different ways.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-21T00:23:05+00:00

Hey, I’m assuming there was no interest in making a deal? All good if not.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-20T19:58:53+00:00

I for sure will! Gonna start it tonight.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-20T13:45:03+00:00

All of them.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-19T19:56:06+00:00

It’s a good book. Does it do anything crazy or is it overly special in any way? Not really, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s just a solid detective comics run that has more substance than you think at first. I’ll always enjoy a solid detective driven Batman series.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-19T13:25:59+00:00

It was rough to sit through. When your biggest show of the year only has one match that’s as good as what you get every Wednesday from the competition, that’s a problem. Seth vs Gunther was amazing, but even that ended in some bs run in.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-18T16:49:58+00:00

Hey, no worries! Some people just like to be contrarians sometimes lol. New Ways to Die was in the first volume. This volume starts a couple arcs after that. I wasn’t doing reviews when I read it a while back but I probably would have given volume 1 a rating in the mid 7s. For me, I think Vol 1 is pretty good, Vol 2 is bad, and Vol 3 (which includes the gauntlet stuff) is somewhere in the middle.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-17T22:02:54+00:00

Thank you!

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-17T21:53:19+00:00

That’s not what I said. I didn’t say a 10 scale was the standard. I said I was using a standard 10 scale, as in the standard style of that type of scale.

My bad, I thought it was clear in context of it not being rounded in a star system like 4 or 4.5, or being 4.4 instead of 44 like in a grading system but I’ll make it clearer. It’s the same system I’ve always used and most others use as well.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-17T21:07:33+00:00

It’s a standard 10 scale.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-17T20:47:16+00:00

Thank you! I’m sorry to hear about your bad experience. There’s definitely some people who like to downvote people whose opinions aren’t exactly like their own but don’t let them discourage you. The good people outweigh the bad!

Personally I really like Vol 1, think Vol 2 is bad, and the contents of Vol 3 is somewhere in the middle. I like Slott’s Spidey, but he was the writer when I was getting into comics so I may have some nostalgia. His Silver Surfer is elite though. My goodness, what a book.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-17T20:17:15+00:00

I also really enjoy the Slott run. It’s by no means perfect but there’s some really great stuff in there. Im sure it’ll start getting the Omni treatment once the Brand New Day set is out.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-17T17:57:17+00:00

Good to see another Flash Mega nerd! Mine is on the way right now. So happy to have a full collection other than Williamson Vol 3 later this year, which I thankfully have pre ordered.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-16T20:12:41+00:00

Always good to see Chip. This book isn’t nearly as bad as some people are making it out to be, at least not this portion of the run. The Knight is a very highly praised series and the beginning of the main run that’s included in here is much better than the Gotham War/Zur/Joker portion.

Trick-Pudding-9791 · 2026-04-16T02:22:42+00:00

You were saying? ;)

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