Batman: Night of the Monster Men Paperback – 31 Oct. 2017

Brilliant first crossover of the DC Rebirth good and exciting story lots of action and twists! Go buy it now!!

Good story, nice hard back version. A perfect addition to the collection.

Great.

As good as it is to see the whole bat family working together in a small crossover event it's very bland. It's a lot like volume 1 of justice league because there is very little substance to it, almost like a Michael Bay blockbuster! It's good to see the main villain back but there just isn't enough of him and his plan isn't very compelling. Worth picking up if you're a batman fan and have to read everything batman and family but other than that I can't recommend it.

Wasn’t a big fan , seemed a bit boring and the plot was all over the place

Apparently, this is the first crossover episode of the Rebirth branding and I’m afraid it’s kind of underwhelming. It’s not bad, it’s just… not great.Collects Batman 7-8, Nightwing 5-6, & Detective Comics 941-942.It might be called Batman: Night of the Monster Men but I’d be more inclined to rename it Team Batman vs a Japanese Monster Movie.Following on from the recent Detective Comics storyline involving the death of Tim Drake (Really, who the hell would willingly put on the Robin costume? That’s 3 of 4. Either Batman is a really careless responsible adult or he’s a serial killer. Of course, it could be Dick, bumping off all others that replaced him in Bruce’s affection. Batman should never have slapped him. But I digress.) Batman is in ultra-protective mode. He has his team around him and is determined to save Gotham from a flood caused by a hurricane. Yes, people Batman is concerned with global warming. He couldn’t save Tim but he won’t lose another person, not even to a natural disaster. Of course, this rain splattered night is the very night that Dr Hugo Strange decides to attract Batman’s attention by unleashing a quartet of animal/reanimated human corpse hybrids on Gotham.The Bat team consists of Batman, Batwoman, Nightwing, Orphan, Spoiler, and Clayface, with Gotham Girl (Tim Drake’s sister?) a chap called Duke (who suits up later on) and Albert all hanging in the Batcave. Batman keeps sending the other members of the team away to carry out more ‘safe’ parts of the job and they keep ignoring him.The writing by Steve Orlando is okay (I prefer his Midnighter and Apollo stuff), but I don’t quite understand why they didn’t have a collaborative writing team of the writers who write the individual issues to write their particular characters. This would keep a consistent character voice. From what I’ve read after finishing the comic this storyline was one that was used in a Batman comic in the 90s, I don’t know how close this stuck to the original storyline.As for the art, they at least kept the original artists for the individual runs. Unfortunately, this gave the overall look of this volume a patchwork vibe.I didn’t like the artwork in the Batman issues, it was wishy-washy with almost a watercolour style yet without any of the colour you would expect from a that art style. It was a study in beige and grey, which did reflect the constant rain quite well, but gave the artwork an almost blurry quality. The figures were indistinct and poorly composed and I found myself squinting at the panels to try and make out the background.By comparison I much preferred the art for the Nightwing issues. The artwork was much clearer and the characters more defined. It made for a much more enjoyable reading experience. And the art for the Detective comics issues hovered somewhere inbetween with some interesting panels and others not so much.Overall the volume was okay. I didn’t clip and post and panels that I loved, or that made me laugh, or that were meta, which is an indication that I don’t love the story. I don’t regret reading it but I’m unlikely to read this again or recommend it to readers over other titles.Titans still remains my favourite volume from the Rebirth series to date.

Terrible, so disappointing.I liked the first rebirth story lines of all the series involved in this crossover,Batman detective ,nightwing and batman, so I was quite exited to see all of them together in this book, but the story is bland the art average and is simply a waste of money and time.

Kindle edition. What a great collection. Unfortunately, you can’t get the entire Monster Men collection with either Batman Rebirth, Detective Comics, or Nightwing so… you have to buy this to get the complete story. I was a bit peeved when I realized that but, TBH, paying the extra $4 was worth it. Also, get the most out of it you need to have read Batman:Rebirth and Detective Comics before you read Monster Men.

Essa fase inicial de Rebirth está muito boa. Todas as histórias são empolgantes.

Absolutely beautiful! This has been my favorite batman book to come out of the Rebirth rebranding. The artwork and coloring is some of the most interesting in the batfamily since the Batgirl redesign in 2016. This book has it all, giant kaiju, eldritch horrors, and a good balance of batfamily working together under one book that honestly haven't seen done this well since Pre-52 era. Plenty of mix between the serious and ridiculous that I feel lot of batman comics these days miss the mark on. It's not just punches big and giant monsters, there's some great mystery and detective work to it as well.

Je n'attendais pas grand chose de ce volume et celui-ci s'est révélé une bonne surprise. Cette histoire qui se place au début de la relance rebirth en même temps que le premier volume du run de Tom King sur Batman et du premier TPB Détective Comics utilise, en plus de Nightwing particulièrement mis en valeur, tous les personnages des deux publications : Batwoman, Gotham girl, Duke Thomas, Stéphanie Brown, Clayface et dans une moindre mesure Cassandra Cain, rendant vraiment l'impression d'une vraie Batfamily. Le comportement de Batman est dicté par la disparition récente de Tim Drake, et nous montre un Bruce Wayne affecté, qui cherche par tous les moyens, qu'il ait tort ou raison, à protéger ses compagnons. l'histoire est horrifique et les différents monstres font suffisamment peur pour que l'on accroche. Strange est fidèle à ses précédentes interprétations que ce soit dans Batman and the Monster Men ou the Prey. La partie la moins convaincante est celle qui se déroule dans la grotte avec les réfugiés qui est peu claire (d'où vient la mystérieuse substance ?) mais le reste tient bien la route et la fraîcheur (voire la naïveté) de l'ensemble est agréable. On peut juste s'interroger sur le nombre de fois où Gotham est à moitié détruit : comment des gens peuvent-ils encore choisir de vivre dans cette ville ? L'idée que Wayne a construit des armes de destruction massive en plein cœur de la Ville sans en informer ses habitants fait également froid dans le dos...Une étoile en moins pour un art assez inégal et un peu trop cartoonesque à mon goût.

I didn't love this story, feels kind of meh until the end, when batman beats Strange, who I think is a pretty decent villain.