Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 1: Mythology

Mythology is a Batman graphic novel which keeps the reader awed by the way an evil creature can shape itself into multiple foes and friends of the Dark Knight and snuff out life with ease. The creature taunts Batman against his dead parents and then seeks out the places where Batman leaned to strengthen his need to fight against the criminal element buried in the streets of Gotham City. Batman's journey ultimately leads him to the laboratory of Hugo Strange, but nothing is as it seems.Mythology is written by Peter J. Tomasi and beautifully illustrated throughout by Doug Mahnke and the graphic novel also includes a variant cover gallery. As this is volume 1 of a new series of Batman Detective Comics, it makes a good steppingstone for new readers keen to learn about the Dark Knight.

Good art and story just terrible actual writing

Spoilers aheadBatman is under attack from a monster who takes many forms and is intent on killing all his friends and mentors.AAnyone who had a hand in making batman is in danger.Alas it's all a high way to nothing .Batsy goes around stomping on various bat villains one after another on the assumption one of them must be the culprit.The coldly logical detective is no where to be found in this story when he brutally beats the inmates of arkham on the of chance there behind this plot.The ending is one of the most cliched hackneyed conclusion I've read in a long time.It was all a dream???reallly??

“Detective Comics - Mythology” collects issues #994-999, and is also renumbered to Volume 1 as well, just to remind us how incompetent the current DC editorial staff are.This is a complete book-length story, which confusingly for readers…SPOILER ZONESPOILER ZONESPOILER ZONE…has the same plot (roughly speaking) as Batman volume 10, and bearing that in mind, when you get to the appearance of the ’villain’, your first thought is the character that opens that volume. Do the editors not speak to each other?As with [spoiler], by the time you get to the end of the second issue, you are beginning to wonder whether this can be real or not, but as the body-count grows as the mystery assailant works their way back through Batman’s history, killing minor characters and injuring major ones, you are too caught up in the story to make the intellectual jump to the real solution until Batman finally walks into it.SPOILER END…is so well written and illustrated you don’t spot what’s coming until Batman finally walks into it in the last issue.This is a sort of stand alone story, though it is an excellent lead-in to issue #1000 in thematic terms, and the artwork and the plot & dialogue are excellent.