Wow, wow, wow.. THIS is what Batman is all about! The mystery, the detective work,.. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time!!Truly a masterpiece according to me.. A must read for every Bat fan!!

I’ve given this graphic novel 3 stars (but it’s subject to change to 4 at any point), because it felt like a proper, classic, traditional Batman adventure/crime story, but did nothing new or shocking with the characters/story, but needless to say, I very much enjoyed the book for exactly what it is. Once again, with the new The Batman score playing in the background as I read this, it only heightened the Crime Thriller/Murder Mystery feel of this book and increased my like of it. I love seeing B...

A great Batman story that starts off and finishes strong.

Robinson's narrative on Batman, after his year off from Gotham, is finely written. The focus on Two Face bound everything together, and I particularly liked the somewhat open-ended conclusion.

This book is from the One Year Later event and takes place in between "Under the Red Hood" and "Batman & Son". I appreciated the art, but the story felt just like a run of the mill Two Face Story. It's not The Long Halloween or Jekyll and Hyde, and this book just feels kind of like an excuse to bring Two-Face back to being "normal". Overall it was ok, not great.

Face the Face is an eight-issue storyline that is written by James Robinson with penciled by Leonard Kirk and Don Kramer. This particular story is significant because it marks Batman's return to active duty one year after the events of DC's universe spanning event: Infinite Crisis. Batman: Face the Face collects all eight issues (Detective Comics #817–820 and Batman #651–654) of the cross-title series."Face the Face" is a eight-issue storyline (Detective Comics #817–820 and Batman #651–654), whi...

I read the last page a gazillion times, and the spine was already broken there from the last person! All the Batman/Gordon and Batfamily stuff is spot on. The art is dark and inky, eerie and Dark Knight-y -- difficult to decipher in some places, but the full-page panels and issue covers make up for it.

Face the Face takes place after 52 when Batman was away from Gotham for a year. He tapped Harvey Dent ("cured" during Hush) as Gotham's guardian during that time. First off, I can understand the blank stares: why didn't he pick Huntress, Batgirl, or any number of heroes instead? But I actually like that Batman picked Harvey, because they were once friends and he knows Harvey was a good person, so he actively wants to help him do better. Alas, things don't go as planned, as Harvey reverts to Two-...

This was a pretty good surprise! This takes place after indentity crisis and when they did the one year later event. For a whole year some of our biggest heroes, including batman and robin were gone. This is their comeback. While away Harvey dent took up the Gotham protector mantle trying to protect people. However, when Bruce and Tim get back and become batman and robin once more he feels rejected. Even worse, someone is killing villains, but who!? Good. The art is solid throughout. The detecti...

Clear, concise, writing and art. A well-told psycho-thriller wherein the only fault lies in the deaths (BUT, this is Batman; there are supposed to be deaths) of several admittedly minor villains whom I presume DC had no further use for. Seeing someone OTHER than the Joker take lead villain in a Batman graphic novel is nice, especially given the recent trend of assigning a given villain to a given hero as "archenemy" that frankly, was lame when Underdog's creators did it. So, ten out of five WHOP...

I was interested in reading this volume because it ends with the last issue of Batman before Grant Morrison begins his (mostly) AMAZING run on Batman.This volume collects the issues that tell the events after the One Year Later storyline.As you can guess by the title, the storyline does involved Two-Face as Batman left a reformed Harvey Dent in charge as Gotham City's crime-fighting vigilante. His face has been healed, but is Two-Face really gone? Well, you'll have to read to find out.The story

This was good. It is odd that the introductory OYL arc in Batman wasn't written by a regular Batman writer, since some of this already seems to have been pushed aside, like the status quo of several villains and the role of Jason Bard. But it was still a ripping good story.Only one complaint (though it is a slightly major complaint) - the Great White Shark reveal was far too out-of-left-field to be satisfying. He'd never been mentioned in the book before the ending, aside from an almost-referenc...

While the plot is less focused than the Batman stories that get to be considered classics, and the illustrations are of too inconsistent styles, I do think this book deserves more attention than it seems to get.Face the Face is a fantastic case study of Gotham as a setting, using a multitude of villains (and amazingly, no Joker), including the version of Two Face that first made me appreciate that character, plus side protagonists to explore everything this setting represents.Pair that with a he...

Batman and Robin return to Gotham after a year away and relieve their stand-in protector: a reformed Harvey Dent! But after a series of low-level criminals are knocked off in suspicious circumstances, has Two-Face also come back?I think this one follows DC’s 52 series from roughly 10 years ago where the majority of superheroes disappeared for 12 months and street-level characters took over. Face the Face is a very dull, standard Batman story that’s essentially just about hitting the reset button...

A comic that greatly (and gladly) surprised me. It's not that I expected it to be bad, but I didn't expect to enjoy it this much either. Taking place one year after the events in "Infinite Crisis", when Batman and Robin return from their sabbatical, we face a "reformed" Two Face as a new hero/old villain in the city, a strange series of supervillain murders, and one Batman that seeks help from a detective while he's getting back on his feet. James Robinson writing deals perfectly with the charac...

I LOVED THIS ONE!This was really good omg and so it takes place after one year from infinite crisis and we see Batman returning to Gotham but what he finds is villains dying like KGBeast, Magpie and later on orca and he is working with a reformed Bullock and Gordon and we see them solving the case and also in between focus on Tim and like how he has gone through so many things in that time and Batman trying to think what to do with him and then also focus on the villains and we see them suspect

I am a huge fan of Robin (specifically Tim Drake and Dick Grayson), so I relish the rare moments when a writer has the courage to write a modern day dynamic duo story. This story takes place a year after Infinite Crisis and we see Batman try to rebuild the bridges he has burnt in the past. In terms of the plot, it is definitely one of those stories that focuses more on character development than action. The villains aren't exactly all that exciting nor are we really made to sympathize all that m...

Read this review and more on my blog.What would happen if Batman, Robin and Nightwing left Gotham for a year?Batman: Face The Face follows a time in Gotham when Batman and Robin have just returned from an extended leave of absence. Surprisingly, crime has been decreasing in the year that the masked duo were away, with a mysterious masked bandit taking up the mantle as protector of Gotham.I found the story easy to follow with enough plot twists that it did not become predictable. There was an int...

In a few words, the story is about some suspicious vigilantism killings of villains going on in Gotham and batman is called in action to deal with it along with Tim Drake as a Robin. ( he was previously gone somewhere else, i'm not sure of where exactly).It's not a mainstream batman story that you will see it suggested on must-read lists. Although it's a great noir-style story that involves Harvey Dent, that i'm glad that got in my hands. (Even by luck)

A classical Batman story, Batman is called upon by Jim Gordan via the Bat-Signal. To investigate a slew of murder that have been happening in Gotham, he's been away for a year due to the events of one year later. So essentially it's a reintroduction, but I loved it. We haven't seen Batman like this in years, he's never done old called via Bat-signal since the New 52. As well as incorporating Robin into the story without it feeling overbearing, in this Robin could hold his own and I loved it. It