Dave Schaafsma's Reviews > Batman, Vol. 9: The Tyrant Wing

Batman: The Tyrant Wing is volume 9 in Tom King’s Batman series, two volumes after The Wedding, and Bruce is still moving in the direction of regaining his feet, it looks like. This one features a Penguin that King takes seriously, making him into a real character with complexity instead of his goofy, cartoony past renditions. And as Bat faces Bane, Penguin even becomes for a time an unlikely ally. It’s a Batman-lite volume in that it only has three King (and Mikel Janin) issues that don’t make up a complete arc.

That doesn’t make it bad, as a volume, it’s still King, and that is worth four stars for what we have, but the volume also collects Batman Annual #3 and Batman: Secret Files, all of which is pretty forgettable, nothing special.

Though, okay, I’ll admit Tommy Taylor’s Fathers Day annual is pretty good, a bit touching, not bad, and can be linked to what King does in his three issues where Bane has targeted Alfred.