I feel l just like Neo did in the first Matrix movie, after he watched Morpheus leap from the top of one building to another. He stared for a few moments in disbelief before uttering a single sound: 
 "Whoa." 
 I think I did that exact thing after reading this. Batman, finally, after all these years. I get it. I get him. He's awesome. I want to be him. He's the coolest dude I've ever seen in comics. 
 This is a 4 and a half out of 5 stars. I waffled on giving it the full 5, but I held off because I got a bit lost with all the twists at the end. Still though, I got to see Bats in all his glory, kicking the shitsies out of everyone, including Superman, and still thinking he was about to get his own ass handed to him at almost every turn. 
 I repeat, he beat on Superman until supersnot was coming out of that Kryptonian ass is his. He took down Killer Croc with a single punch, and faced down most of his rogues over the course of this collection. He confronted the Joker, and kicked the living hell out of him for pages and was right there, about to kill him, when Jim Gordon showed up and (stupidly) talked him out of it. 
 All this high minded I'd-be-no-better-than-him nonsense is ridiculous. The Joker is a serial killer of the worst sort. Everyone who looks past that and keeps taking him to Jail should probably see that they're only delaying the next killing spree for a few months at this point. Seriously. I'm not really one for vigilante justice, but if real life cops are willing to drive-by shoot a paper delivery person just because her car looks similar to a suspects they are chasing... it seems reasonable to me that some street justice would be carried on in a place as messed up as Gotham. 
 And given the inability of anyone in the 'system' to keep criminal's incarcerated... well... I'm not saying anyone should take out the Joker (I am saying that, though), I'm just saying that I'm suprised it hasn't already been done. 
 Whatever, rant over. 
 Batman is awesome, I loved this book. The art was again, incredible. Hugely impressed. Loved the hell out of this.