This one was so good!It focuses on Bruce and Selina going to Khadym to meet Talia and well its the rescue of Holly and the face off of Batman's two love interests and its intense and some border thing is there but I love the face off and the at is so good and Talia is gorgeous and though I wish the battle was longer I like what happens and its a reconciliation between the two and great stuff with Damian!Finally the story with Superman and Lois and Bruce and Selina hanging out, the worlds finest

90% | A- | Amazing"The bat stands for a bat"Bruce and Selina are officially engaged and it's time for Bruce to break the news to some familiar faces: his ex and his best friendThis has absolutely no right being as good as it is. I have no idea where King managed to pull this magnificent writing from, but WOW. The way he writes dialogue and banter between Bruce/Selina, Dick/Damian, Bruce/Clark, Lois/Clark and Lois/Selina is absolutely phenomenal. Even Selina/Talia have some good moments. The para...

Mixing Batman and humor is a little like bringing your insanely smart but incredibly weird coworker to trivia night with your friends. On the surface, it seems like a good match—“Hey, Frank knows more about Italian renaissance architecture than I do about my own body, and I spend a LOT of time exploring that, so he could really help us out, and my friends are good eggs, so they’ll be okay with the fact that he’s a little off.” But, five minutes into the first game, Frank’s only contribution has

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.After the newly-found quality that surged from The War of Jokes and Riddles, writer Tom King delivers another excellent volume featuring no supervillains at all. How is that event possible? Rules of Engagement is an exploration of various relationships, notably the two new lovebirds who came crashing in with a love for each other bigger than life itself.In this volume, we are presented with three different stories: The Rules of Engagement (3 par...

Who has the patience to wait until May to read the new Batman volume by Tom King? Certainly not me. So I got the single issues and read them all at once.After the brilliant thriller that was The War of Jokes and Riddles, Tom King is taking it slow with Rules of Engagement. There are no super-villains, big schemes, crazy explosions or anything like that in this volume. It's just pure, unadulterated character piece, and it's perfect. Tom King is phenomenal with literally every single character in

This volume explores some of the Batman's key relationships before his marriage to Selina Kyle. We get to see Batman and Catwoman visit Talia, Batman and Superman work on their friendship, and Selina and Lois bond for the first time. Relationship centered books like this are they types of comics that really let readers connect with characters. More like this, please.

Tom King has done it. He has made a 5 star volume of Batman. It's been a LONG time since I gave a Batman book a 5 star. See this volume does something the previous did not. There's no big threat, no danger looming in the background, nobody dies (okay maybe someone at one point) but this is a story that gives real humanity to Bruce. We finally see a extremely vulnerable Bruce who's going through shit internally and you can see it effecting him. This is because last arc Batman had asked Selina to

Wow! I'm impressed. There's barely a villain in the book and I loved it! Tom King has quickly made me do a 180 on the Batman / Catwoman romance. Their relationship and banter here is so fantastic. He's really gotten into their heads.First up, Batman and Catwoman head to the desert to talk to Talia. The dialogue in this book even in the midst of sword fights is fantastic. The character moments between Damian and Dick are spot on. I wish we'd get more moments like this among the Robins. Joelle Jo...

“Meow!”Wow! Okay, I’m a year late as so many of y’all have read this, but it is really, really good. Yes, “Rules for Engagement” is an actually funny and well-written story about the brooding Batman’s engagement to Catwoman. So the joke is that with an engagement comes certain “rules” that must be followed: Bat takes Cat to visit his ex, Talia al Ghul, leading to a sword-fight between the two women; Bat of course has to tell his kid he is getting married, leading to fun scuffling between Damian

The Bat finally popped the question to the Cat and now they’re getting hitched. Which means Bruce has gotta do the banal things many single fathers do when they remarry: meet with the ex, have a talk with his kid about his new soon-to-be stepmother and break the happy news to his friends. But Bruce is not an ordinary person so these tasks inevitably involve taking on a small army of silent soldiers, breaking UN agreements and sword-fighting in the desert with a lunatic! Which do you prefer your

PerfectWorld: The art is just simply beautiful and the tone is beautiful and this arc is entirely and utterly the perfect arc. The world building is fantastic cause it not only moves the world forward in a way that u did not expect that DC would allow but also honors and deals with the past with Talia and even Damian. It's well thought and we'll constructed. Story: What can I say about this arc. It's perfect in every possible way. From the tone, the pacing, the stakes, the dialog, the everything...

The best Batman book ever?Well . . . that's a matter of personal opinion.The best Batman book I've ever read?Yes.Vol. 5: Rules of Engagement continues the story-line from the climax of Vol. 2: I Am Suicide (if memory serves - I read it 11 months ago) in regards to the Batman / Catwoman "let's take it up a notch" relationship. This volume is ALL about the two of them, and contains three distinct short stories.The opener shares the title of the volume, as the boyfriend / girlfriend dynamic duo rid...

[Read as single issues]Batman and Catwoman are getting ready to get married - but before they do that, there are a few things they need to sort out first, like telling his best friends, rescuing her best friend, and telling his ex. This'll end well.Rules of Engagement is a three part arc that sees Batman and Catwoman visiting Talia Al Ghul in order to rescue Holly Robinson, still in hiding for her role in the I Am Suicide arc and the death of a lot of people. This arc's quite good fun, if a litt...

Holy Cinderella, I really enjoyed this one! The "Superfriends" arc that's included in this book has to be one of my favorite Batman stories ever. And the Annual issue included here is one of the best single issues of Batman I've read.Many people like to say that Bruce Wayne is the alter ego and that Batman is the real person, and while I understand the sentiment, I don't fully agree. I suspect that neither Bruce or Batman is the real man and that there is another person underneath it all and tha...

Although he is defined by tragedy during childhood and uses that pain to justify his purpose to fight crime like a creature of the night, who’s to say that Batman can’t show off his funny side? After the major influence of Frank Miller, most fans and creators would lean towards the darker aspects of the character, even though from what we’ve learned from The Lego Batman Movie and the late Bright Knight himself, Adam West, Batman can be funny — something that writer Tom King has placed great valu...

This is a great Volume where its more about the characters than an actual story plot. 2 story arcs, the first involving Talia and giving us Selinas actual take on Bruce. The second is a double date between Bruce/Selina and Clark/Lois. Its just the four of them being normal and exposing their human side. Great story telling!!

Perfect.(Or perrrrfect. Meeow.)This volume can be broken up into three perfect segments. 1. Batman and Catwoman's (unsanctioned) trip to Khadym. Issues #33-35 "The Rules of Engagment"2. The double date. Issues #36 & 37 "Superfriends"3. Batman & Catwoman's beginnings & their end. Batman Annual #2I honestly don't know how to talk about everything I love without doing a page by page recap. Everything was just that good. 1. The trip to Khadym (Issues #33-35)... though I didn't love the art, there is...

Very good! So Tom King as cracked the code on writing a batman comic I feel as these last two volumes have been very good! So if you have been living under a rock, Batman and Catwoman are engaged! Whether your on board or not with that (I am), this volume pretty much focuses on that. Its 3 different stories in this volume, but the batman catwoman engagement plays a theme through out. The First story has batman and Catwoman go to the middle east for a case where they run into Talia Al Ghul. I can...

I love this volume. I love seeing Bruce dip his toe into the pool of happiness and peace. I think Bruce Wayne- Selina as well- deserves a chance to be truly happy for once, and they could give that to each other. I also love the art, and seeing the parallels between Superman and Batman, as well as the interactions between the two couples in the Superfriends two parter was hilarious and fun and had a lot of heart.Honestly, the more I read this volume, the more I love everything about it. This is

If a superhero comic is going to be mostly talking with little action, then it usually has to be very well written to keep my attention. Well, King knocked it out of the park with this one. This volume is all about Batman and Catwoman preparing for their big day, and it is completely engrossing, funny, and even relatable, to the very end. We have seen silly 60s Batman, ultra-violent Batman, cartoon Batman, etc., but we are starting to see Batman like we have never seen before, and it is so funny...