It’s sincere and very touching to see years of darkness finally having some light shined upon it. What I loved in Superheavy and Bloom is Bruce Wayne being normal and happy with his new life helping kids with Julie Madison. The elephant in the room throughout is Batman’s Return, and it isn’t exactly a secret since it says “Batman Returns” on the back and he is on the cover. Plus, without the moustache and glasses it just doesn’t look right. Although it was interesting to see what a Gordon Batman would be like, at the end of it all I just wish he will stay in the GCPD in the future doing what he does best. It was interesting for a while but after one and half volumes of it there was nothing new to be found in Bloom. James Gordon continued to fight the good fight as you expected him too but it was painfully clear he was not up to the task, even with an entire army of Bat Robots behind him.
He easily does away with his enemies but never delivered a fatal blow to any main character, like the Red Shirts in Star Trek or a Stormtrooper. This was a sticking point with me, it felt that there was too much at stake and that Mr.
The kind of supervillain that the Justice League would have needed to get involved with. Bloom has some powers and could kill people easily but as time went on he became a grotesque monstrosity who could have ended up wiping out all of Gotham. Second, the supervillain Bloom started off as a character with a purpose and a motive but as the book went on his motives started to be drowned out by the looming return of Batman and the constantly escalating danger only served to make the Dark Knight’s return more obvious. The deep colours and wild pencilling give the sense of danger and chaos – which is constant in this volume. There are some bright and bold colour choices to be found in Bloom which I enjoyed very much, a fixture present throughout Batman New 52 but maybe more prevalent in Dark City onwards. It also alternates from dark to light – the light part, surprisingly, are the scenes involving Bruce Wayne and Julie Madison. It’s exciting and it’s all in your face from the word go. Let’s start the review and discuss the art. This book is grandiose and Bloom himself is probably the main character, here. If you’re not interested in a Batman book without Batman then you’re going to be disappointed with this one, too as once again James Gordon’s version (which isn’t all that bad really) takes the stage. The cover, to some extent can be a misleading, too as Batman (Bruce Wayne) features very little, really. It’s misleading to think that ‘Bloom’ is the only book about Mister Bloom as he dominated the pages almost right from the start in Superheavy. Bloom, as a collected edition, follows directly from Superheavy and is pretty much essential reading to understand the goings on.
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