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This Week's Comics - 52, Batman, Batman/Spirit
It's an all-Batman edition of my comics review blog!!
52, Week Thirty - In Africa, Nightwing and Robin follow the trails of the something big and bad Intergang is brewing, and of Batman, who's been there and moved on. Worried about Bruce 9as they have been since they left Gotham), the two split up, with Robin going after the Bat and Dick going after Intergang. In Gotham, Kate takes in Renee and Charlie, as Charlie edges closer to his death. In Africa again, Batman confronts the Ten-Eyed Men, who apparenlt help rid him of the demon within. And back in Gotham, Batwoman and Nightwing meet, where Dick tries to be friendly, where they agree to work together, and where Batwoman is rather terse.
This was, as usual, a good but not amazing issue. If nothing else, Dick and Robin are written perfectly, and the scene with Renee and Kate talking things over, followed by Renee and Charlie alone at what will be his deathbed, was wrenching. (It's worth noting at this point that next week marks a year since my cousin died of cancer, and the feelings of helplessness and pain and love that we see in Renee are all ones I know and remember, and aredone as well as they can be.)
I am waiting to see just how they go from this Bruce Wayne to the one we see again now, though.
Batman 659 - There's a new vigilante in town, as well as the Russian mob, and a former flame of Bruce's in in trouble. This story by guest writer John Ostrander and guest artist Tom Mandrake (the men behind the classic 1990s Spectre comic book), should stand out. The art is up to Mandrake's standards. But there's nothing here we haven't seen before, and nothing that really stands out. Sort of by the numbers, alas. Might buy part two, might not.
Batman/The Spirit 1 - Come and hear the untold tale of how the rogues of Gotham City and Central City went to Hawaii to disrupt a police convention as only they could, and how two masked legends with very different styles temaed up to save the day.
This tale marks the arrival of Will Eisner's greatest creation, the Spirit, at DC, and boasts art by Darwyn Cooke, who will be writing an ongoing Spirit monthly. It also have Jeph Loeb sharing the writing duties. So it was sure to look good and be readable. Thing is, Cooke is hit and miss with me. I loved his Catwoman graphic novel, but found his other scripts (even New Frontier) pedestrian. Fortunately, either Loeb helped things along or Cooke has found a good mathc for his skills.
Either way, this special is nothing but fun, and bodes well for the new series. And Cooke is quite deft at drawing in the style of Eisner without loosing his own unique style. Eisner might like it. Not if only DC had ru none last ad for the Masters of American Comics exhibition here, since this would have been the PERFECT place to get Eisner fans.
52, Week Thirty - In Africa, Nightwing and Robin follow the trails of the something big and bad Intergang is brewing, and of Batman, who's been there and moved on. Worried about Bruce 9as they have been since they left Gotham), the two split up, with Robin going after the Bat and Dick going after Intergang. In Gotham, Kate takes in Renee and Charlie, as Charlie edges closer to his death. In Africa again, Batman confronts the Ten-Eyed Men, who apparenlt help rid him of the demon within. And back in Gotham, Batwoman and Nightwing meet, where Dick tries to be friendly, where they agree to work together, and where Batwoman is rather terse.
This was, as usual, a good but not amazing issue. If nothing else, Dick and Robin are written perfectly, and the scene with Renee and Kate talking things over, followed by Renee and Charlie alone at what will be his deathbed, was wrenching. (It's worth noting at this point that next week marks a year since my cousin died of cancer, and the feelings of helplessness and pain and love that we see in Renee are all ones I know and remember, and aredone as well as they can be.)
I am waiting to see just how they go from this Bruce Wayne to the one we see again now, though.
Batman 659 - There's a new vigilante in town, as well as the Russian mob, and a former flame of Bruce's in in trouble. This story by guest writer John Ostrander and guest artist Tom Mandrake (the men behind the classic 1990s Spectre comic book), should stand out. The art is up to Mandrake's standards. But there's nothing here we haven't seen before, and nothing that really stands out. Sort of by the numbers, alas. Might buy part two, might not.
Batman/The Spirit 1 - Come and hear the untold tale of how the rogues of Gotham City and Central City went to Hawaii to disrupt a police convention as only they could, and how two masked legends with very different styles temaed up to save the day.
This tale marks the arrival of Will Eisner's greatest creation, the Spirit, at DC, and boasts art by Darwyn Cooke, who will be writing an ongoing Spirit monthly. It also have Jeph Loeb sharing the writing duties. So it was sure to look good and be readable. Thing is, Cooke is hit and miss with me. I loved his Catwoman graphic novel, but found his other scripts (even New Frontier) pedestrian. Fortunately, either Loeb helped things along or Cooke has found a good mathc for his skills.
Either way, this special is nothing but fun, and bodes well for the new series. And Cooke is quite deft at drawing in the style of Eisner without loosing his own unique style. Eisner might like it. Not if only DC had ru none last ad for the Masters of American Comics exhibition here, since this would have been the PERFECT place to get Eisner fans.