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Entries from June 2008

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale

June 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Choices is pretty awful. Jeph Loeb’s dialogue is bottom-rate and his narration is worse. He repeats one or two snippets throughout–you know, for resonance–and the snippets are particularly poorly written, even in this trove of poorly written lines. Choices also serves as a nice Superman II resolution for Batman. Superman II’s resolution for Superman was […]

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Tags: Batman · DC Comics · Jeph Loeb · Tim Sale

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #6-10 by Grant Morrison and Klaus Janson

June 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Though he’s uniformly recommended by comic fans (or maybe because he is), I approach Grant Morrison warily. I’ve only read three things he’s written (Seaguy, We3, and JLA Classified) and only one (We3) resonated–though I do love Seaguy for the Cameron Stewart art. However, I tend to like small animals, so We3 might not be […]

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Tags: Batman · DC Comics · Grant Morrison · Klaus Janson