Blockbuster bombast laden with perfunctory popcorn death. AKA Batman: Earthquake. Entertaining but it lacks greater depth and nuance.

HOLY SHIT IT WAS VENTRILOQUIST ALL ALONG. Sorry I need to start with this because he's my little guy. My little dude! It's not him, it's Scarface that's making him do crimes!! It's Quakemaster!!! Thank god. I am so happy. I was so upset that they've added some other random villain to add to the basket, and I've never been happier to be wrong. The grin on my face at the reveal was the widest it's been in months. Best little dude. Scarface needs a hospital :(How do I describe this comic besides pe...

3.5some of the art was unbearable, some parts of the story repetitive. The parts I did enjoy were great though. My appreciation for the Huntress grew even more.

3.5 stars"An estimated 7.6 [on the Richter magnitude scale] earthquake struck Gotham just after seven this evening . . . More reports are coming in, and the news looks bad and getting worse . . . Initial reports include massive destruction, [and] power is out all over the city." -- a KGC-TV newscaster, on page 29Much like one of those Irwin Allen disaster movies from the 1970's, Cataclysm places the various members and allies of the Bat 'family' in the midst of a devastating event. A particularl...

Hot on the heels of the just-as-terrible Batman: Contagion, this book serves as a set-up for the next bloated Batman event: "No Man's Land". Let me save you some time & frustration: while there are (somewhere in there) a few good moments, mostly it's uneven writing with uneven art. Here's a brief summary of "Cataclysm": - A monster earthquake hits Gotham City.- Lots of people die, a lot more need help because they're stuck somewhere or under something.- Batman & friends can't possibly save every...

Batman's goal in life is to protect Gotham , he does it on a nightly basis , with help of his allies , his brain and by punching the faces of his foes . What happens then if Gotham faces an adversary that can not be punched . As part of the road to the No-man's-land tale , Batman:cataclysm features a Gotham city devasted by an earthquake , and Batman seeing the destruction can't really do much than save one person at a time .This was a fantastic tale , grounded in reality , as super-villains may...

This was better than I expected it to be, considering it's a major event. The overall concept was intriguing, with nature as an enemy. I really enjoyed the plotline with Quakemaster; it makes you think about what we've come to expect from superhero comics in terms of who the villain is and their role in a disaster. The issues focusing on other characters around Gotham and how they were faring were also much better than I'd anticipated they would be, and it was genuinely interesting to read them....

Pretty dated art and story wise. I will say though it does lay substantial setting groundwork for the story coming up.

This was an interesting read. I only decided to read this in order to catch up on the events leading up to No Man's Land, but I ended up enjoying this story immensely. There are all sorts of interesting little stories involving the heroes, villains, and citizens of Gotham City and beyond. It was definitely not what I expected, and I'm happy I decided to read it.

A devastating earthquake hits Gotham City to (almost) everyone's surprise and Batman is faced with a problem he can't solve by punching it in the face: The overwhelming power of nature.I love the concept of this story. Looking at just the premise, it gives us a chance to see how Batman and friends would handle a situation where there isn't some big bad villain murdering people. The situation is really just a large scale version of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with nature as the onl...

I chose this book because the extract,blurb and my friend told me that it is an awesome and interesting novel to read. My favourite character from this novel is robin because he is loyal to batman and he knows when do the work but also play around. I liked the the story as a whole it had a good storyline to it and the different challenges they face really test there skills and what there capable of.but I would of liked more appearances from other heroes to help out batman and his crew.

One of my biggest problems with superhero comics is that they're not self-contained. The major comic company's insistence that all their comics exist within one "comic universe" means that at any given time, multiple artists are working on multiple projects meant to exist both independently and as a cohesive whole. Someday, somebody's going to pull this off, and it's going to be very impressive.Batman: Cataclysm is not that project. Spanning multiple comic series, the book describes the aftermat...

This is a really well done book that places Batman firmly beyond the realm of what he can do, by forcing him to face a natural disaster. You will appreciate Batman more for what he does in this situation, because there is no quick, super powered solution.

Right I guess I will have to put my hand up to this one - yes the next batman is shortly to be released and yes I have followed batman ever since at Uni I was introduced to a friends copy of Year One. This book came to my attention some time ago not realising it was part of a larger story arch, yes I will admit my naivety when it comes to multi-book spanning story arcs. That said I am also pretty green to the whole graphic novel work only really dabbling in 2000AD and Neil Gaiman publications. H...

This is the prelude to No Man's Land and I love every single issue of this book, even the really short stories. In this book, there is no supervillain that must be defeated, it just shows how the Bat Family tackles a natural disaster of epic proportions. I love the 90's art as well. I can't wait to read No Man's Land now.

(Art 3/5, Story 3/5) in the sense that the story showed numerous perspectives on how this affected everyone from Batman to Robin, Catwoman, poison ivy and more, it jumped around well. However, the overall story didn't have much substance (view spoiler)[ The Quakeman claims to be the thread of the quake and holds the city ransom saying he'll cause another earthquake. He uses the knowledge of a seismologists to speak the lingo. Robin figures out who it is based on how he talks and the words that t...

Batman: Cataclysm is a story arc that ran through the various Batman family comic book series that was published by DC Comics. The storyline centres on Gotham City being hit by a massive earthquake – the epicenter of which is less than a mile from Wayne Manor.This trade paperback collects: Detective Comics #719–721, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #73–74, Nightwing #19–20, Batman #553–554, Azrael #40, Catwoman #56, Robin #52–53, and Batman: Blackgate – Isle of Men.The main villain in this trade paperb...

This volume is the beginning of a mega-epic in which Gotham City, Batman's town, is destroyed by a killer quake, and we see how Batman & Company deal with a natural disaster, in addition to the usual insane criminals, many of whom are freed by said quake. This one is interesting because the arrival of the quake is shown many times from different viewpoints, so we get to see how a variety of artists try to rise to the occasion. The overall arc is a powerful illustration of how reading these stori...

"There is no villain to bury your fists into. No Bane. No Joker. Your childish yearning for vengeance can find no outlet."aka Batman vs. Earthquake. this is right in the middle of Dixon's catastrophe run, but I actually think there's some good short stories in here -- they just all revolve around an earthquake.

I've been re-reading these No Man's land books. This one, like the others, has some really great moments and some stupid stuff as well. It's a mixed bag but that's pretty much par for the course for these crossover events (especially considering that it was written by four different people). Still easily a cut above the current swath of Batman comics (Joker War, cough cough).