Comics Fondle

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but Chuck Dixon doesn’t write lesbians well. They come off like a special episode of “Melrose Place,” their relationship ostensibly just character, but really muted sensationalist fodder.
But otherwise, I’m impressed with how well the new Batman and the Outsiders turned out. While Dixon still writes Batman like a psychotic, […]

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There’s only one so-so issue of Batgirl: Year One. Issue five is a bridging issue. It’s lackluster.
The rest is first-rate mainstream, superhero work. I make this comment about a book with two male writers doing first-person female narration. It might have something to do with the character. They aren’t betraying Barbara Gordon or trying to […]

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Reading Chuck Dixon’s Nightwing today is a little weird… the period where it was a bestseller has past and it’s hard to separate the knowledge of where the story is going from what is there in the first three issues. Because, really, there’s not much… Bendis certainly shouldn’t be credited (or demeaned) for starting “decompressed” […]

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Batman: Turning Points has its problems. Greg Rucka trying to write in Frank Miller’s Year One style is atrocious and both Ed Brubaker and Chuck Dixon get saddled with generally useless issues. Brubaker writes two issues and his first one is a fun tribute to 1960s Batman, but his second one is so forgettable–well, I […]

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