Written by: Matt Fraction
Art by: Jorge Jimenez
Colors by: Tomeu Morey
Letters by: Clayton Cowles, Jorge Jimenez
Cover art by: Jorge Jimenez
Cover price: $4.99
Release date: October 1, 2025
Batman #2, by DC Comics on 10/1/25, comes in hot with baby formula heists, Batmobile shenanigans, and a shocking shootout.
First Impressions
Batman #2 is a crisp punch to the senses - kinetic, noisy, and a little bit bonkers. The art sizzles with personality, while the characters' choices often cause whiplash. You get superhero spectacle, but at the cost of logic shredding itself by page ten.
Recap
In Batman #1, the Batman chased down a mutated Killer Croc, only to subdue the villain with kind words and a visit to the zoo. Meanwhile, Commissioner Vandal Savage upgraded the GCPD with paramilitary additions to the force.
Plot Analysis
Wayne Manor opens with a family lesson in humility and automotive basics in the past: Bruce mentors Tim and Damian on the correct way to drive a manual transmission. The sequence promises wholesome Bat-family time, but soon enough, Robin is itching for glory, eager to trade patience for screeching tires and the shadow of the Batmobile.
Now, the action shifts to the Slabs, Gotham’s industrial edge, where petty crooks bungle a botched robbery involving, of all things, baby formula. Robin crashes the scene with a flurry of gadgets and the familiar beatdown, only for one cop to shoot a fleeing suspect in the back. The line between crook and cop starts to blur faster than a Batmobile burnout.
Amid chaos and moral fog, police infighting boils over. In the past, Tim and Damian both show off, with Tim fussing over Batmobile mechanics. In the present, Tim flips up the side of a building like gravity took the night off, getting a gunshot from a zealous cop for his trouble. Soon after, a handcuffed Robin somehow shrugs off his restraints, like he’s made of rubber and plot armor. Batman stops and disables the police transport to free Robin. In one jaw-dropping moment, two officers nearly shoot each other while Batman, bewilderingly, just watches the carnage unfold.
Commissioner Savage storms into the aftermath, jawset and vengeful, swapping the Bat-signal for a blacklist. He declares Batman and Robin enemies of the city, cranking Gotham’s beef with masked vigilantes up to eleven. The Bat-family drives off, wounded and rattled, left to lick literal and reputational wounds as Savage roars for the TV cameras.
Writing
The script fizzles with energy and quick banter. Matt Fraction clearly relishes giving Batman, Tim, and Damian a chance to riff, bicker, and bond in the opening act. However, things careen out of control whenever the plot needs to move. Logic crashes, and common sense gets left behind with burning tire marks.
Art
Jorge Jimenez’s pencils are electric, packed with kinetic lines and clever staging. Tomeu Morey’s colors don’t just enhance the panels, they detonate off the page. From motion blur to rain-soaked cityscapes, every image sings. Even a Batmobile parked in the sun looks impossibly cool here.
Characters
Robin’s feats in this issue would make even Superman side-eye. One minute he’s breaking out of handcuffs; next, he’s leaping up walls like Spider-Man’s envious brother. Batman seems weirdly passive, letting police maul each other and suspects hang onto their guns even after hitting the pavement. These aren’t just nitpicks. They’re noodles in the soup of character consistency.
Positives
The comic delivers top-shelf art that captures action, emotion, and pulpy Gotham grit. Every panel pops with life, and even quieter scenes pulse with energy. The creative team wrings athletic dynamism out of the Bat-family, cramming each page with visual treats and blockbuster bravado.
Negatives
Character logic goes out the window. Batman supervising the Batmobile wash in broad daylight undermines his myth. He stands idle as police shoot at each other, and shrugs when a shooter keeps his weapon after being knocked to the ground. Robin’s handcuff-breaking and gravity-defying leaps ignore his actual abilities, breaking verisimilitude. These lapses wrangle the tension out of otherwise gripping moments and make the world feel stitched together with string and a prayer
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Final Thoughts
Batman #2 is a visual feast stapled to a wild ride where logic buckles under spectacle. Fraction and Jimenez deliver fireworks, but next time, someone should keep an eye on the script’s steering wheel. Preferably not in broad daylight.
6/10
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So far his run has been the same as Zdarsky. Same character voice, which is out of character for everyone but especially Bruce. Tim as usual is stuck in a limbo forever reliving his significant achievements again and again and again without moving forward ( even ignoring the horrible retcons done to him since new 52 straight up to now), the same plot of Batman vs the police. It has been yearsssss now. When are we going to get a new plot other than police/the city/Batfamily vs Batman?? Does anyone remember Batman was a detective? So far I can not believe I am saying this, but Tom Taylor has actually managed a better voice in his most recent issues for Batman (since that awful Joe Chill's daughter arc ended) than Fraction and Loeb combined. Let's just not mention Hush 2. Dark Patterns is also another series with a way better Batman.
ReplyDeleteSo disappointing. 2 out of 10 and only for art.
I was absent from here for some time but this issue made me so angry, I had to say something lol. As always my criticisms are only meant for the writing and not a personal attack on the writer.
Just another ACAB comic.
ReplyDeleteFraction would do well to remember that baby formula can be used to extend drug stocks.
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