Batman Kills The World

I like how the opening issue references the "Bruce Wayne is in Arkham" theory, even having all the doctor look like batman villains

joker actually becoming part of the bat family is amazing

As a massive Superman fan, i love that ending. I love that they made the baby Clark represent hope returning to the world. That's beautiful.

Okay but the idea of the entire world hearing Lex Luther tell them to just be evil, and everyone just going “sounds pretty cool man I’m in” to the point where even LEX HIMSELF was like “what the fuck his speech was WAY better” is so funny to me. Like even kids decided to start beating up heroes apparently it’s so fucking funny

The best Batman stories are the ones that feel like a fever dream where the dreamer(Batman)is desperately trying to piece together what it means

The look on that Superbabies face at the end does NOT scream 'age of hope', it screams 'get me out of here'.

Kinda nice Omega gave Alfred that peace before death

The way this started, I felt like they were doing a "Shutter Island" thing. Then it decided it was a Batman comic after all and did its own thing. Omega being the real Batman all along was too obvious, though.

I never thought Id see the day where the Joker takes up the mantle of Robin, but stranger things have happened.

Honestly, i think the most eerie and morbid part of this comic is that "Speed Force Storm". Imagine being trapped forever in a storm, constantly running, constantly exhausted, constantly in pain. No one can save you because the storm itself kills anyone that gets remotely near it in the worst way possible. Either they get aged up to dust or down to mere cells. And you'd have to imagine how that would feel, too... Once hit by the lightning, everything in the world including yourself slows down immensely, from your point of view. You are conscious through all of it, trapped in one seemingly endless state as you wait for yourself to age and die. Or, arguably worse, you feel your very mind regress at incredibly high speed, giving you a feeling akin to actual insanity as you feel yourself slip away in real time, becoming lesser and lesser, becoming weaker and weaker until you are... nothing. In both cases, you silently observe the storm... The miasma of tangled, tortured souls begging for release from theit torment, seemingly conscious of your fate and their part in it...

I love how Hush is a librarian. What exactly does a librarian say? “Hush”

Curiously, Omega's suit is heavily inspired by the one used by Bruce Wayne Jr., the son of Batman in the "Generations" universe. Upon becoming the third Batman, Jr. initially wore the same costume as his predecessors while forming a wholesome dynamic duo with Kara Kent (Supergirl). However, after Kara was horribly murdered the day of their wedding, Jr. was so devastated that he created a completely dark suit that hid all of his skin as a way to symbolize his new absolutist and violent persona similar to that of Rorschach and Azrael.

I appreciate this storie because instead of ending on a note of hopelessness it ends the exact opposite,it shows what happens when people persevere.

the fact that batman can actually do this anytime he wants is crazy

It’s funny how this plot is similar in quite a number of ways to Mega Man Zero. Post apocalypse, small groups trying to survive, you play as a clone of the original hero, the original hero turns out to the be the villain, and the villains are literally both called Omega.

This story reminds me a lot of a short saga in the "Rat-man" series. Basically this scientist create a device to rewrite reality and want to use it to erase all superheroes (because for him they're just a bunch of idiots running around in spandex) but he change is mind when this super evil entity reveal that is going to use this new reality to consume all the universe. To stop the entity the scientist then dicide to use the machine to write a new reality were heroes can inspire people to hope in dark moments. The entity mocks him saying that it will exist even in the world and will rise to consume it one day saying something on the line "What a single small light can do in absolute darkness?" to which the scientist replay with "everyone will be able to see it".

1:20 The arkham asylum chime hit so hard

The score from Arkham Asylum was the cherry Sir. Flawless execution

A story with an evil Batman WAY BETTER than The Batman Who Laughs. This is how you make an evil Batman.

20:30 seeing joker smile like that is actually very heartwarming