Batman Beyond, Volume 3: The Long Payback by Dan Jurgens

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book collects seven issues of Batman Beyond.

The first six issues are a classic Dan Jurgens “six-issue fight scene” for the most part mixed with callbacks to the TV show. It’s all about a vendetta against Terry as he fights three villains who are attacking because one villain has a grudge against him.

The other big plot development is that one character takes up a crimefighting mantle and it’s telegraphed throughout all six issues that this is going to happen, so there’s no real surprise.
Personally, I think that three volumes in, Terry’s just got to have a story where he’s just Batman doing crimefighting and crime-solving rather than each storyline being a big focus on establishing Batman and dropping villain names from the TV series like there’s no tomorrow.

The art by Bernard Chang is a big highlight of the book and does elevate the quality. He also contributes a one issue story that finds Terry (in the past) trying to stop a bomb from going off and encountering key foes from the past but in a fun and fast-paced way. The story is a tad confusing but it’s still better than most of the rest of the book.




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