{"id":3773,"date":"2025-09-05T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:20:50","slug":"short-box-batman-1blind-as-a-bat-blind-bag-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoor-comics.com\/unbagged\/2025\/09\/05\/short-box-batman-1blind-as-a-bat-blind-bag-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Box: Batman #1″Blind as a Bat” Blind Bag Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Batman, Vol. 4<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

#1O<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Release:  <\/td>Sep 03, 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Cover:  <\/td>Nov 2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Writer<\/td>Matt Fraction<\/td><\/tr>
Artist<\/td>Jorge Jim\u00e9nez<\/td><\/tr>
Cover Artist<\/td>Jorge Jim\u00e9nez<\/td><\/tr>
Colorist<\/td>Tomeu Morey<\/td><\/tr>
Letterer<\/td>Clayton Cowles<\/td><\/tr>
Editor<\/td>Rob Levin<\/td><\/tr>
Editor in Chief<\/td>Marie Javins<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Even before my lengthy hiatus from regularly buying comics, it had been a while since I’d bought any of the Bat-books with any regularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That didn’t change when I got back into buying comics, though I have picked up some Bat-related titles throughout the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not going to change now, either, as I just picked up this issue on a whim, and while I generally like Fraction’s work and found it to be fine overall – and a good jumping-on point – I just don’t have it in me to buy a main Bat-title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is that? I don’t know, but as with X-books, or Spider-books, it just feels like…too much. I’m content with my little corners of the Big Two’s respective universes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one drew me in via the blind bag gimmick. I didn’t go for the other gimmick on offer – giant-sized editions of the issue like the last novelty Batman comic I picked up<\/a> – and I honestly had no idea what the potential options were for what would be inside, but it was there in front of me, so, with a shrug, I added it to the stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the cover that I got: a foil variant of the main cover by series artist Jorge Jim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This probably should have been an Unbagging, given that I literally<\/em> unbagged the comic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As for the issue itself, it sets up an interesting status quo – I keep forgetting that Vandal Savage is the current Gotham City Police Commissioner – and presents a different take on Batman, one whose edges are a bit softer and is more empathetic and willing to be vulnerable, spurred on by the Imaginary(?) presence of the spirit of Alfred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A kinder, gentler Batman? Well, not exactly – the does actually mow some creeps down with the Batmobile – but one who brings to mind the Batman who sat on a swing and held out his hand to comfort a dying girl in that “Epilogue” episode of Justice League Unlimited<\/em> and shut up I’m not crying you’re<\/em> crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s solid art from Jim\u00e9nez, and I like a lot of his design choices, though I’m not entirely sold on the Bat-suit, but I’m not sure it matters, as I likely won’t see it pop up in any of Batman’s appearances in the books I do buy regularly. I do like the little touches of little pop-up captions highlighting some of the tech Batman is using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like I said, I won’t be adding this to my Pull List<\/a>, but I have added it to the ever-growing list of comics I plan to get around to reading on DC Universe Infinite one of these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born and raised in the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jon Maki developed an enduring love for comics at an early age.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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