Comics Fondle

Comic books have mostly gotten rid of thought balloons, which today’s writers seem to consider nothing but exposition in words as opposed to action. Except today’s writers have also started using narration a lot and they use it’s all for exposition too. Super-Skull’s surface emotional weight is all in the narration. I’m not sure if […]

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Doug Moench has a good handle on Batman, but his story, Prey, is more competent than anything else. It’s a mediocre Batman comic book, from the period before Batman comics got real bad. Legends of the Dark Knight started following the 1989 Batman and there’s a lot in the comic (again, just like in the […]

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Mike W. Barr loves mysteries (his The Maze Agency, for example) and, for the first time I can immediately recall, in Son of the Demon, Batman does seem like a detective. He does seem a lot like Barr’s Maze Agency detectives in his investigatory procedures, but the procedures still fit. Son of the Demon is […]

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