Comics Fondle

When Lucius Fox and Alfred mysteriously run off to Paris together–after each receiving a telegram–does Bruce Wayne think the most obvious thing (an ebony and ivory gay marriage)?. Actually, we don’t know, because Conway never lets the reader know what Batman is thinking. Instead, Batman’s just a snoop. Admittedly, Lucius and Alfred running off to […]

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How come Batman used to work during the day but doesn’t anymore? Maybe because Conway’s script casts him more as a famous detective–of the Angela Lansbury or Raymond Burr variety–than a costumed vigilante. The first time no one checks to see who Batman is under the cowl, I noticed. The second time, I didn’t. I’m […]

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This issue is a Will Eisner tribute–past the dedication, the hotel where the action mostly takes place is the Dolan–but the art doesn’t fit. For example, Don Newton simply can’t draw the Eisner-seque villain, the Squid, but he does get the mood and a lot of the angles right.
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I’m mad at John Rozum and I shouldn’t be. Even if the lame ending was his idea… there’s really no other way to end his two issue arc, because he’s not writing the third issue. Rozum, like most fill-in writers I’d assume (how would I know–I avoid most DC comics like the plague), writes an […]

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For an entirely functional story, Batman: Face the Face is rather good. It’s well-written, but somehow passionless. The mystery and the investigation of that mystery are not compelling, however, the scenic details are… if not compelling, at least thoughtful and showing evidence of character depth. Writer James Robinson cares about the characters and works real […]

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