How Scott Snyder Redefined BATMAN - A New 52 Retrospective

In this video, Owen explains the history of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman run, how the two reimagined the character for DC's New 52 initiative, and how this series redefined the Dark Knight.

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▶ Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:13 - The Court of Owls
9:18 - Zero Year
15:51 - Death of the Family / Endgame
23:14 - Superheavy
29:54 - Conclusion
34:02 - Outro

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[ComicDrake]

This is the book that got me into comics as a whole. 🤙

[mrheroprimes]

the only thing I didn't like about Scott Snyder's Batman run with what he did to mr. freeze he got rid of mr. Freeze's tragic backstory and turned him into another Nut Job by revealing that Nora wasn't his wife and that he was just straight-up crazy. I know I'm not alone in that because DC quickly reverted mr. Freeze's origin back to the tragic one, .

[loganthomas]

I love Snyder and Capullo’s Batman run. While it definitely had its highs and lows, the run has some of my favorite Batman comics ever written and so many fond memories. Wish we could get another consistently great Batman run sometime in the future. Great vid as always

[damn]

What a coincidence, 2 Snyders one ruined Batman and the other achieved heights with him

[ChaosAC]

Great video! New 52 run is my favorite run on Batman

[MadBatProductions]

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman may not have been my first Batman series I started with, but when I did it was the most amazing and intriguing series I collected till the end. Scott’s writing has been a big inspiration and I can’t see anyone else writing a modern Batman like him, and Greg’s art made every storyline that much more epic, though some fill in artists came in from time to time Scott and Greg were a dream team for Batman and they formed a brotherhood over this series and the creative passion to make Batman not just a superhero, but to show how human he really is and not show it in a bad light like most people will do now a days. I often look back most at Death of the Family and Zero Year as they were some of the runs I enjoyed the most along with The Court of Owls. If we ever got another series of Batman being written and drawn by Scott and Greg then I’m collecting it when it hits the shelves.

[federicoarmando]

This is the run that got me into comics

[turkish]

I think also what made this run so special was the fact it told me something new while at the same time making Gotham feel lived in and this Batman feel experienced but still learning and it made me care about Bruce outside of the cowl by having alot of close up panels showing his emotions on his face letting us share in his experience, seeing his reactions to the things going on around him

[rickg]

Man, this run really got me back into reading comics. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo really had such great creative synergy. Scott Snyder writing Batman is always something special like in Batman Black Mirror, and his All-Star Batman run, it always feels fresh and genuine to me. Its crazy how after Grant Morrison's massive 7 year run we got this great era following it! I even liked some of Tom King's run even though it lost me towards the end, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on King's run at some point. Anyway, thanks for the great videos as always hope you're doing well!

[InfernoDelta]

This is still my favourite batman run despite its flaws. I just love the way Scott writes Batman and Capullo’s art is easily my favourite from any run I have read.

[ulisesmartinezsalinas]

Owen Like Comics, I hope you can upload a video about how Grant Morrison redefining Animal Man, Paul Levitz's Legion of Super-Heroes, Mark Waid's Flash and Geoff Johns' Green Lantern.

[Flipitmixit]

How Scott and Snyder AND GREG CAPULLO redifined batman. Scott and Greg did comic things without one another but they wasnt shit. Their combination though was godlike

[kilemiller]

I freakin loved zero year. I always thought if they were to ever do a animated series reboot it should be based off zero year

[evandickinson]

Capullo's art for batman was so beautiful! That dude seriously elevated spawn, and when he left I stopped reading. Truly a master of his craft!

[BeerBearapples]

Idk if anyone else already mentioned it but Julie was not Joe Chills daughter. Her dad was a bad dude who just so happen to sell Joe Chill the gun he used to shoot the Waynes

[Akkbar]

That quote at the start of the video is a bit funny in retrospect. Snyder really overdid the failure angle with his JL run and Death Metal.

[salvatoreocello]

I read Morrison, then Snyder, and then rebirth i got to rebirth like WHAT HAPPENED?!?! 😅

[stevenstokes]

I enjoy Snyder's work, it's just (for me) his story arcs were way too long. There's nothing wrong with longer story arcs, there just needs to be a couple issues for a break inbetween. Court of Owls was good, but it was 12 issues long and then went right into Death of the Family which was then followed by End Game. There's also nothing wrong with a story arc being only 3-4 issues also. Those long arcs are just way too much to keep track of without having to re-read everyting to keep caught up.

[VenAuri]

I don't know if it could be a good subject for a video, but I thin the X-men Messiah trilogy could be interesting.

[samwill]

The only part of the New 52 that wasn't botched on landing. And they found ways to botch it later mark my words.