Comic Book Review: Batman- Court of Owls/City of Owls

Sometime last year I started to get into reading comic books. I have always loved graphic novels, but have never felt the need to get into comics, apart from the occasional webtoon or something. I'm not sure when it started, but my uncle started gifting me comic books. The first one was a Justice League comic, a part of the new 52 series. I also read Batgirl of Burnside, which was very fun. 

This will be a combined review of the first two books in the new 52 Batman series: The Court of Owls and The City of Owls. Both are good, the first one being arguably better. I think the villain in the series is very interesting. The court of owls is certainly something I would really like to see explored further. Something about a cult/secret society is very interesting to me and I am surprised I have not really seen the owls brought up outside of the comic books. I do however think that if some wanted to do a movie or tv series with this villain it would be somewhat difficult to pull off. I could see it getting pretty corny or even boring. It would be quite the challenge to do and a feat if done well. My only big complaint is the second half of Court of Owls completely changed stories. They ended up doing something completely different than I expected. The end was interesting nonetheless, but it was completely out of left field. Maybe this is something they do in comic books a lot, I wouldn't know because I am just now getting into them. I think I would recommend these if you like the Batman franchise, or if you want to read the next book in the series "Death of the Family." You don't have to read the first two to understand the 3rd book, but I can be kind of a stickler about having complete sets. If any of you read this series or want to, let me know what you think!