Good story. Needed more time, more depth.

Oh boy mr. stick-up man - are you in for a big suprise - excellent Elseworlds story.

What if Superman's ship landed in Gotham, not in Metropolis?An amazing elseworlds story. Extremely underrated.

Very freaky graphic novel that definitely turns the whole Superman mythos on its head.

This is why I love Elseworld stories. Superman Speeding Bullets turns the origin story of Superman and Batman on it’s head. Kal-El lands in Gotham City in stead of Kansas, therefor he’s found by the Waynes in stead of the Kents. This means the Waynes never have Bruce (the Bruce Wayne we now at least). Because how do they name baby Kal-El … that’s right, they call him Bruce.But this doesn’t mean that Batman never gets born. The events of that fateful night were the seed for the Batman gets plante...

It's a truly awesome concept, that's what I love most about this book!!! Imagine if instead of Jonathan and Marth Kent finding baby Superman in Kansas...Thomas and Martha Wayne find him in Gotham City and raise him as their own. Clark Kent becomes Bruce Wayne only to endure the same hardships and become The Batman himself...EXCEPT WITH SUPERMAN'S POWERS!!! (view spoiler)[and Lex Luthor becomes The Joker...that's genius!!! (hide spoiler)].I love Eduardo Barreto's art! His layouts are amazing with...

This book is worth reading on premise alone. What if Superman was Batman. It's incredibly thought provoking and in some ways, it lives up to the premise. The main problem becomes the too convenient "I'm from Metropolis but, hey, I'm in Gotham now". Gotham has plenty of already good characters to play off of. Like what would this Elseworlds Superman/Batman do against the actual Joker or how would Commissioner Gordon acted. It just leaves to much wanted. I know all of this sounds incredibly negati...

It tries to accomplish a great deal within its format as an elseworlds one-shot. This would have benefited greatly if the editors at the time had had the courage to support the project beyond the quick lip-service it was ultimately given. It would be good to one day revisit the premise and explore it in its full range and potential.

It was a given we'd see this mashup once the Elseworlds series got rolling. What if Kal-El's ship crashed at Wayne Manor instead of a Kansas farm? The premise starts off strong. Kal-El has been raised as Bruce Wayne, his parents die and Bruce isn't aware of his powers until a break-in occurs at Wayne Manor and Alfred is threatened. Once he finds out his heritage, he creates the Batman suit and starts melting criminals faces off! Batman was way too brutal for my taste. Lex Luthor comes to town an...

A good mixing of the Batman and Superman stories. Recommended

Very good!A lot of reviews are saying this story could have been longer, and that's totally true. Exploring every nook and cranny of this Elseworld concept could have taken years and would probably have added some great stories to our shelves, but I don't mind the brevity. Tbh digging any deeper might have only shown more cracks. As it stands it's a short book with awesome art that adds just a little more depth to the character of Batman, and shows how rotating just a few dials could change the

What if Superman landed in the lovely ol' city of Gotham and was raised as Bruce Wayne and became Batman and melted the shit out of people. It's quite a quick read the story doesn't go into too much depth other than Bruce 'laser eyes' Wayne discovering his powers, and Alfred being on form with the sass! I really like these old trades and the different takes on these familiar characters, i'm not sure this one really works but it was fun to read. Lex as a chubby Joker was just too funny and it's w...

3.5 Stars! (Good) What if baby Clark's kryptonian ship was landed in Gotham city instead of Kansas and what if he was raised by wayne family instead of Kents?? That's the central theme explored in this book. This story started very solidly and I loved seeing growth of Kal El in Wayne family as Bruce. Also it was surprising to see him becoming very brutal version of Batman who actually harms criminals with his heat vision and smashes things. Then there was Lex luthor as fat joker which was so f

I like the concept. I like the execution. But then Lex Luthor appears. But he looks like the Kingpin. And he is also the Joker in a way that makes no sense. And I guess there's Penguin mixed in there as well. The rest of the book is so good, but the villain is so bad, there's no reason to combine villains in a story whose premise is Superman's space ship crashing in a different place and it wasn't even done even slightly good. People have no right to complain about Amalgam Comics when Elseworlds...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's.... Batman?As you might have gathered,It's an ElseWorlds story that begs the question: What if Superman was raised by the Wayens?The writer, J.M. DeMatteis, was able to mix the Superman and the Batman elements flawlessly in this tale. Just to clarify, it's not your traditional Superman, it's a more vengeful one due to his adoptive parents' death. I gotta say, the thing that I really enjoyed the most was Lex Luthor as the Joker, he was great.All in all, you get a p...

This is actually a reread for me. I purchased this way back when it came out. Recently someone recommended it to me so I dug it out of my boxes. DeMatteis has always had a gift for getting into the heads of the characters, truly making the reader understand their motivations and how they are feeling. Primarily knowing him from his Spectacular Spider-Man run, this alternate take on the origin of Superman is filled with pathos as a young Kal El is found and raised by the Waynes. His journey throug...

“What if Superman landed in Gotham City instead of Kansas?” An interesting thought experiment, although it doesn’t really go anywhere unexpected.

What if the Waynes found the crashed Kryptonian pod instead of the Kents? What if Clark Kent was Bruce Wayne instead and still stood helplessly by as his earth parents were slaughtered? What if Superman... was Batman? What if Lex Luthor fell victim to an accident and became the Joker? This is one of those fun re-imaginings that made Elseworlds so much fun in the '90s. Not all of them were good (in fact, most weren't) but this one really is a gem.

"How something as simple as a shifting wind current might have carried that rocket anywhere in the world". Lois LaneMuch like the theme from Superman Red Son (I'm guessing as I have never read it, just know the idea behind it) the idea here is what if the rocket carrying an infant Kal El hadn't landed in Metropolis? What if it landed in Gotham? What if he became Batman? The Rocket is discovered by Thomas and Martha Wayne, and the infant brought up as Bruce Wayne. A familiar fate befalls Bruce's

What would happen if Superman became Batman. That's the premise. It's dated now but the story still has something about it that's entertaining.