DC Comics & Batman #136 Spoilers & Review: A Broken Batman, Physically & Mentally, Returns Home As Batman / Catwoman: The Gotham War Event Looms For Dawn Of DC! Plus Shadow Of Batman Zur En Arrh & The Flash Movie?!

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DC Comics and Batman #136 Spoilers and Review follows.

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A Broken Batman, Physically and Mentally, Returns Home As Batman / Catwoman: The Gotham War Event Looms For Dawn Of DC!

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Plus Shadow Of Batman Zur En Arrh and…

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…The Flash Movie?!

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What To Expect.

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BATMAN #136
Written by CHIP ZDARSKY
Art by BELEN ORTEGA
Cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
Variant cover by JOE QUESADA
Variant cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO
Variant cover by STANLEY “ARTGERM” LAU
1:25 variant cover by STJEPAN ŠEJIĆ
1:50 foil variant cover by JOE QUESADA
The Flash movie variant cover by LEE BERMEJO
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 6/6/23

Failsafe and Red Mask have forever changed Batman, and Gotham isn’t as welcoming as it once was. Can Batman remind them who he is? Can he remind…Catwoman?

The future of the Bat-books starts here, and everyone’s world is about to explode!

In addition the main cover and solicitation above the title has a few variant covers below.

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Including one variant by Lee Bermejo teasing the upcoming The Flash movie that comes to North American theaters on June 16, 2023.

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This week’s core DC Comics super-hero titles also tease the new The Flash film via House Ads.

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As house ad that opens the issue above and one that closes out the book below.

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Batman #136 Spoilers and Review.

The book opens with the aftereffects of a returned Batman with an amputated right hand, but having learned to weaponize it with only the Justice Society of America’s (JSA) Mister Terrific wise to it.

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While he was elsewhere for the last arc, the Penguin seemingly died as explained to Batman by the Tim Drake Robin.

This is followed by Batman’s haunting by his alter ego the Batman Zur En Arrh here and here.

Next we see Batman battle the Penguin’s twin adult children where Batman’s new prosthetic bionic hand is revealed to give him super-human strength.

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We also know the lengths to which Batman will go to keep his hand issue hidden including turning off the Oracle’s health monitor of him in his suit.

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Batman then confronts Catwoman who isn’t happy to see him seemingly setting up the Batman / Catwoman: Gotham War event that kicks off on September 2023.

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She then reveals that the Penguin faked his own death to get out from under his criminal past, setting up his own seemingly ongoing Dawn of DC series that launches in August 2023, as the Batcave’s alarm tells Batman he has an intruder back home.

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Batman quickly returns to the Batcave, after passing the Batcave-within-the-Batcave created by the Batman Zur En Arrh only to find that the intruders are his family making a meal?!

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He feels blessed to see the all, but hides his amputated from them noting he’ll eat with his gloves on due to an injury; a lie of omission is still a lie though.

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However, Batman can’t help, but feel that this moment will be fleeting and burned to ash literally.

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Next up is the back-up tale featuring Batman Zur En Arrh.

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It tells the story of how Batman’s alter ego created Failsafe.

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Something to make Bruce Wayne a better Batman.

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Batman seems haunted by Batman Zur En Arrh then and now.

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The Pulse.

Solid storytelling in both stories, including on art, and an interesting new status quo for Batman as his next event looms. I am intrigued for what’s next. 8 out of 10.

John is a long-time pop culture fan, comics historian, and blogger. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief at Comics Nexus. Prior to being EIC he has produced several column series including DEMYTHIFY, NEAR MINT MEMORIES and the ONE FAN'S TRIALS at the Nexus plus a stint at Bleeding Cool producing the COMICS REALISM column. As BabosScribe, John is active on his twitter account, his facebook page, his instagram feed and welcomes any and all feedback. Bring it on!