Batman #1 W: Scott Snyder P: Greg Capullo I: Jonathon Glapion
Another
week, another Bat-book, and this is probably the weakest yet. I guess
the heart of the problem is a very basic one - when this many
established books are running it isn't a problem as all their stories
are different and their plots are in different places, but when you
start the same book multiple times with different people telling THE
SAME ORIGIN STORY it's inevitable you'll want to compare them.
So,
why is this worse? It's hard to put your finger on, but maybe the
centre panel of Page 14 goes some of the way to explain it: it features
Dick, Bruce, Damian and Tim standing together. Dick, let's not forget,
is Nightwang WHO HAS HIS OWN BOOK IN THE RELAUNCH. His physique is
roughly like Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter. I can't wait to read that
book (also this week) and see him standing at about 5'6" tall and
weighing about 10st. OH NO WAIT. I think it's down, in part, to the
manga-lite art style but I could just be burning out through putting
myself through this.
Maybe I'm being to hard on this and
misremembering just how mediocre Batman & Robin was, as flipping
back through the plot is actually pretty engaging in the last four or 5
pages after Harvey Dent turns up. I think I probably need a re-read
comparison of all the Batbooks once Month One is over as the final pages
have actually got me keen to read #2 and this might be the first time I
can say it about a non-FUN book in the relaunch (or at least the first
time it's specifically because of the plot).
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