Batman #47 Review

Back To The Future

Written By: Tom King

Art By: Tony S. Daniel, Danny Miki, Sandu Florea, Tomeu Morey, Clayton Cowles

Cover Price: $2.99

Release Date: May 16, 2018

Let's jump back into Batman and see if Tom King can wrap this Booster Gold arc up in a satisfying way that will make the rest of the story make sense and hopefully revert Booster Gold back to the hero that he was before this arc started........ Yeah, that's a tall order, but I need some kind of takeaway here that makes this feel like it was worthwhile.  Let's jump into this issue and check it out and see what Booster Gold is going to do now that Thomas and Martha have been killed.......... not to mention, this alternate timelines Batman and Catwoman.  Let's check it out.

For our final issue in this arc we see that we jump another year ahead in the timeline, where Bruce Wayne has need for a time machine more than anyone else in his mind.  While this gets our story started and really, the only way we could possibly end this, it really doesn't move much after that besides for a recap of Booster Gold's origin and some back and forth banter that's supposed to play as the humorous part of this book, but really, both just feel really forced.

While the art remains the high point of this series and in this issue, I can't say that we really get anything out of this issue that makes Batman stronger or weaker as a character, since he's only in this issue for the last page and doesn't say anything.  What we get instead is the complete destruction of a character that many love and while there was a moment where we could have had a Booster Gold that came out of this no worse for wear, Tom King instead decided that ruining Booster Gold was for the best this issue, leaving him as a damaged character going forward.  

All in all, this final chapter didn't do much for this arc except for get everything back to the way it was before it began and I still don't know why Booster Gold thought any of his plan to give Bruce Wayne this gift would have worked since he's familiar with how time travel works.  It seems to just be an exercise in making Booster Gold look like a piece of shit and if that was the intent....... Well, Tom King succeeded.  Like I said, the art in this issue is amazing and I love Tony S. Daniel on this book, but this issue and this arc as a whole was pretty terrible and nothing seemed to make sense throughout.  Luckily, not much needed to make sense for what came before in this issue and we moved forward just to get back to where we were originally and because of that, it wasn't as bad as we've gotten before............ unless you're a Booster Gold fan, but even with that, it's nowhere near good.

Bits and Pieces:

This arc finally comes to an end and while this issue is everything you'd expect it to be to get back to our status quo, Booster Gold comes out of this looking like one of the worst characters ever and I just really hope that whoever takes on the character next just forgets all about this arc.  The art is great, but the story is nonsense.  

4/10