Bruce Wayne: Murderer: Review and Thoughts

[Karl O'Neill]

Batman: Bruce wayne: Murderer

I have a soft spot for the big batman crossovers, mainly because I love to chop them down in my mind to what they should be like, or what I would rather do with them.

Ie. A 6 issue mini series and a on shot special.
Writers: ed brubaker and greg rucka
Art: Scott Mcdaniel (all issues)

I would Leave out birds of prey, robin, nightwing, gotham knights ect ect.

overall, it was a very enjoyable read, with some cool moments and great art in it.I love that fact that once again greg rucka shows us why he is one of the best character writers in the business, I love how he portays sasha bordeux as a tough as nails badass who won't spill bruce's secret to the cops, It is also noteworthy to mention she becomes infected by omac nanites in rucka'a opus the omac project.

A few plot holes: no explaination as to who the killer was? why target bruce? Loved the fight between Nightwing and batman. Go get em dick!

[carabas]

A few plot holes: no explaination as to who the killer was? why target bruce?
Bruce Wayne Murderer and Bruce Wayne: Fugitive are not two seperate stories.

[dreyga2000]

Bruce Wayne murderer is only the prelude to the Bruce Wayne fugitive Collections.... Those "plot holes" are brought to resolution there...

Since were arelady on this topic whatever happen to Sasha?? And long did she work for Bruce?

[Karl O'Neill]

She was a big player in the omac project and a main character in the checkmate series which lasted 30 issues.

One Year Later
One year after Infinite Crisis, Bordeaux became the "Black Queen" of the Checkmate organization. In the first issue of the new Checkmate comic series, she leads a group of operatives into a Kobra stronghold. As the new series began, Bordeaux was depicted as a cold-blooded killer; it remains to be seen whether this is an after effect of her conversion to cyborg, or due to events of the previous year. Her "the ends justify the means" attitude towards the success of Checkmate missions has put her into conflict with Alan Scott. She is also in conflict with several of her Checkmate colleagues, particularly Fire and Mister Terrific, with whom she is romantically involved. As the series progressed, this aspect of her personality was rarely referred to again. In a 2007 story arc involving The Outsiders, Bordeaux suffered extreme torture at the hands of Chang Tzu who wished to lean learn more about her cybernetic implants. Although she survived this encounter (barely) subsequent issues have had her fighting to regain her confidence (similar to her fight to rebuild her confidence after the early humiliation she suffered at the hands of Harley Quinn), especially when the healing process results in even more of her body becoming cybernetic.[1]

In Manhunter (#27, January 2007), Sasha intervenes in the trial of Wonder Woman (for murdering Maxwell Lord) by secretly delivering exonerating evidence to Wonder Woman's lawyer, Kate Spencer.

[Seraku]

I also had a few issues with what was and was not included int he TPB

they completely cut out Brubaker's big "pay off" where Bruce realizes that he IS Bruce Wayne, it's not just a mask, that's who he is.

Since were arelady on this topic whatever happen to Sasha??OMAC Project -> Checkmate - > Final Crisis: Resist

[Choppa]

Murderer? was great, Fugitive sucked. Most of it had nothing to do with murder, in one issue he has a complete change of heart, and it was anti-climactic. Why didn't he go after Luthor?

[Choppa]

they completely cut out Brubaker's big "pay off" where Bruce realizes that he IS Bruce Wayne, it's not just a mask, that's who he is.


That was Batman #664, it really wasn't included? I only bought the first trade so I don't remember.

[Jorriss]

Murderer is one of my Favorites stories, I really liked Dick's reaction to Batman claiming there is no Bruce, I was surprised how easily Tim, Barbara and Cassandra questioned his innocence though.

Ahh plus, Bruce ****ing up some Neonazis was awesome.

[Libaax]

Oh i adored Sasha and Bruce . Murderer,Bodygaurd arcs was awesome.

Bat/Bruce in jail was very interesting.

[Captain Jim]

I enjoyed both Murderer and Fugitive.

[Karl O'Neill]

looks like I will have to buy FUGITIVE now to get the full story.