I hope everyone has had a chance to read this latest Blackest Night title as Batman and Robin are back to do battle with DC Comics’ most horrific villains to date. I hardly no where to start with this issue. After my first read I thought to myself, “Well, this book reads like some summer blockbuster movie. Plenty of action, our heroes on the defensive, bad guys everywhere, unmatched courage, a thrilling rescue, and a cliffhanger to set up the next chapter.”
So why was I having a problem with this book? Twofold. First, like any other summer blockbuster movie it is all flash and bang and little substance. Perhaps it is like any other trilogy where the middle chapter is the weakest (Star Wars fans are saying, “Hold on now!”) But I ask you, where was the depth of sadness we felt in the first issue where we saw the pain of desecrated graves, missing loved ones and the emptiness of those who must live on? So then (secondly) it hit me. Some summer movies are pure action while others can delve into the occult or horror genres. What we have is not just an empty action movie but a horror movie to boot! And there are two things that can give definition to a horror movie. One is physical revulsion the other is mental terror.
Physical revulsion is the mainstay of the “slasher” flicks. See the Halloween, Scream, or Friday the 13th movies as an example. True mental terror comes in the form of movies such as, The Ring, Silence of the Lambs, or the Exorcist. When Blackest Night: Batman #2 opens up we see firefighters, priests, policemen and civilians basically being harvested for their still beating hearts. That’s physical revulsion and I didn’t much like it. I think in the first six or eight pages we get four eviscerated hearts and at least one decapitation. I know, repeat after me, it’s only a movie, er, I mean comic.
I’m not squeamish but I would rather have the fear of the unseen and unknown versus the splatter fest we got.
So what did I like about this book? How about the unrivaled courage of the Gordon’s as they faced down certain death. (Even though the Commish was blasting away at zombies like it was a “Day of the Dead” remake.) And for once I liked Deadman’s role in all of this. Possessing Barbara and using her to rescue her father was terrific and must have made many a Batgirl fan happy to see her swing into action again. How about Red Robin’s entrance? Now that was dramatic! It reminded me of rescue scenes from such movies as “Rescue Dawn” (Christian Bale! See it!), Bat-21 (with Gene Hackman) and “Black Hawk Down” where men put their lives on the line to help their fallen comrades. Awesome and inspirational.
So, yes, it wasn’t all empty. The question I asked in my issue two preview on the effectiveness of flame on the Black Lanterns was answered. Little to none. Cops still died. But the end, ah yes, the end. We finally get to see the Black Lantern Graysons and Drakes. A bit late perhaps but no less welcome. Now we’ll see how Dick and Tim deal with the resurrection of their parents. Some mental terror please!
My rating is based on the amped up action but it still should have been more.
Trivia question! Speaking of “Black Hawk Down” can you find the future movie versions of The Incredible Hulk, Obi Wan Kenobi, and Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four in that movie?
Reviewed by Dark Knight Dave
Dark Knight Dave sent over this cool piece of art that I felt should be shared with all. Being a James Bond fan myself, it is especially interesting. If you are wondering who did the art, it was an artist by the name of Gray Morrow.
Posted by Dustin
Red Robin #4 is the end of the grail story arc, and with the end of comic book story lines you do expect to get some resolve to a story. Does Red Robin follow this method? Yes and no. The best way to start this review is to recap issue 1-3 to get you up to date. Tim thinks Bruce isn’t dead, Tim meets Ra’s Al Ghul and they start a partnership, Lucius Fox’s daughter looks for Tim, Tim looks for Bruce, and the reader is left looking for the plot.
The only question this issue answers is what happened after Tim found out Dick was going to be Batman, and the answer to that is, tell Dick to leave him to prove Bruce isn’t dead, and that he needs to do this alone. Dick understands and lets Tim drive off into the sunset, and hopefully this puts an end to the flashbacks of the days after battle for the cowl.
The only real issues I have with this comic are that no questions are truly answered and that Tim and Red Robin still look like two different people, Tim in the first few pages, looks no older than a scrawny 15 year old, whereas Red Robin looks to be twice Tim’s size and build. The other is the overuse of the cuts between scenes, we have a one page scene in Berlin with Ms Fox looking for Tim, for reasons we still are not told, and maybe Chris Yost is using her as a take on the editor telling him to stop using so many cuts.
The comic goes at a fast pace and doesn’t let you take a breath. It feels like this comic was meant to be read in under five minutes, like the Flash was writing it, till you get to the scene where Red Robin is sitting in a car with Prudence, or as Red Robin in his inner monologue calls her “Pru” the soldier known as “Z” and other pointless character “Owens”. This scene is of the four teenagers sitting in a car and laughing about how Pru’s nose got broken by the demon, for saying he needed some sun. This scene felt really out of place, and like it was ripped from a teen movie, I was half expecting Tim to pull out an iPod from his belt and start to play “Smash Mouth’s All Star” while we take an overhead view of the car with the cave they are driving towards.
We end the issue with a weird out of place character from “Spiders” called “The Widower” beating up the team of misfits and killing one of them and gravely wounding the rest, including Red Robin, leaving them to lie in the desert and bleed to death. Just before this, Tim finds the cave Bruce was in at the end of Final Crisis and takes this that Bruce is still out there, how does Tim know this was Bruce, or even if it was Bruce after the events of Final Crisis? He just does, well that’s what Yost wants us to think.
The art here, just like previous issues, is solid. I am going to be sorry to see him move onto Azrael, but at the same time I won’t miss his inconsistent take between Tim Wayne and Red Robin change.
Yost’s writing is good when he is not trying to throw you all over the place, but this is just an averagely written issue. It seemed to be tying up Tim’s links to Gotham and saying “But look what we have coming in the future.” Yost had to do these two things, and he pulls it off quite well, just nothing special enough to make me say I can’t wait for next month’s issue, even if, Tim is dying from a stab wound in the desert.
So a good issue if you’re reading Red Robin already, but if you’re not already reading Red Robin, and don’t feel like reading the previous issues, then give this a miss. But if you’re reading Red Robin and you like Yost’s take on Tim, then you will enjoy this comic.
Red Robin #4:
Reviewed by Suavestar
Yesterday, some very big news was announced over at Warner Bros. and DC Comics. If you didn’t read the official press release, head over to the news post here. To summarize a really long PR statement, WB is creating a new company called DC Entertainment, Inc. This division will still obviously be owned by Warner Bros., but will report directly to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The main job of this new company is to prioritize the DC properties into all forms of media by specifically focusing on them alone.
I know a lot of people are going to immediately associate this announcement as a reply of what happened last week with Disney and Marvel. For those of you who strictly stick to the DC Universe, let me inform you of what happened. Disney announced that they were buying Marvel for around $4 billion. Now while the internet blew up all over the place about that, the range of feelings towards that announcement ranged in every direction. Some thought that Disney could ruin what Marvel has been doing, while others believed it was just a way for Disney to reconnect with the younger male audience. My thought is that we probably won’t see very much come out of this for awhile, mostly because Marvel has things spread all over the place with all kinds of different studios. While the marketting giant that is Disney will probably help Marvel in an area that they need little help in, we are still years away from seeing any kind of major impact.
The reason why I tell you all of this, is so that you understand why some have immediately made this out to be a counter measure of that deal. While at first glance it seems that it just might be, according to Deadline.com it has something that has been in the works for awhile:
I know what everybody is thinking: that this move is in response to the announcement August 31st that Disney is buying Marvel. You can think that, but you would be wrong. This change has been in the works quietly for two years ever since Robinov moved into the top slot. "It was Jeff’s idea to have DC Comics reporting to him, and DC will be his direct responsibility with Diane Nelson," an insider confided to me. I’ve also learned that Robinov for months has quietly gone to producers like Chuck Roven and Joel Silver and Akiva Goldman and "called back" all their high profile DC titles in development like The Flash and Wonder Woman. Not only was that shocking to the producers, but even more so when they found out this was part of Robinov’s strategy to severely limit the number of gross participants on the projects. Because the producers were told that they may get the titles back to develop, but with far less rich deals. "Jeff always wanted some kind of oversight of DC, and now he wants Warner’s to hold onto ownership," my insider explains.
Now with all of that said, could this be the reason why so many DC properties have been announced and then have completely fallen of the map? It just may be. It seems as if this was something that they may have been planning for awhile and be that it just comes off the heels of the Disney/Marvel announcement. If so what does it all mean?
First, let’s go over what this means for the DC Universe in general before we get to Batman. Basically, what I interpret out of the press release is that DC Entertainment will get a lot of our favorite superheroes on to the silver screen, the small screen, or into video games. We have been wondering for quite some time why WB has not been working with comic book characters, especially since there are so many they could capitalize on. WB has owned DC Comics for over 40 years. It all started with Superman back in the seventies. Batman came into the late 80′s. But besides the two big names, there really has not been much in terms of use of the rest of the Universe. We are just now starting to see more heroes come out. Putting aside the animation aspect of things for a moment, we will finally be seeing some other characters break on to film. With Green Lantern and Jonah Hex already underway and announcements last week about Deadman and Lobo attaching key production members. We also know that Human Target is getting it’s own show that will start airing in January. Could more things be announced in the future? Only time will tell, but my money is that we hear some big news about a truckload of properties come Q1 of 2010.
That all being said, what does this mean for us Bat-Fans? In my opinion, not much at all. Batman is currently the most successful property coming out of DC right now for WB. Batman has the billion dollar plus film franchise, a critically acclaimed video game, and a TV series that is being adored by fans of all ages. I don’t think that the new DC Entertainment will be super concerned about what Batman needs to do to become more successful. They just need to get Chris Nolan and his team back, make a sequel to the now world-record holding video game, and keep making more episodes of BTBTB. Could we see more? Yes. But I think their focus will be more on the under used properties over at DC. Wonder Woman. Flash. Aquaman? Well, maybe not all of them.
In closing, I think this is a great thing for all DC fans. This will be what most have been waiting for in one way or another. Many fans have asked themselves, "Why are we not getting the same treatment for our characters as Marvel is giving their characters?" Wait for the announcement coming in January 2010. Then DC fans, we will.
Posted by Dustin
Well, hell must have frozen over. That’s right. Despite my strong persistence to join the craze known as Twitter, we can now be found on the popular site. One of the major reasons we joined was specifically because I noticed how many creators are on the site and use it every day. What beeter way to find out about what Paul Dini is doing with his dog? Well, last night the new artist coming on to Batman and Robin, Phillip Tan posted this:
Sneak of baddie from Batman & Robin #4, old guy new take… Hmmm
So needless to say, if we can find exclusive news straight from the creators on Twitter, then I guess it isn’t so bad after all.
Posted by Dustin
Alright, so this week is kind of a small week because of Labor Day. But that does not mean we do not have any comics. Kind of short of things coming out, but let’s run through what we do have.
Gotham Central-Volume 2: Jokers and Madmen
$29.99
Finally, Volume 2 of one of the greatest Batman series is released. Not only are we getting work from greats such as Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker, but in hardcover form nonetheless. Gotham Central was a series that focused around the GCPD more than Batman. It told the stories of how the police in Gotham dealt with the crazy villains. In gave an unique view into stories that were never told from that perspective. Everyone has seen Batman cart away the Joker, but how does someone who doesn’t have the training the Batman has deal with the eccentric people that plague Gotham. Now personally, I own the entire series and it is a great read. As mentioned before in past posts, I do not buy TPB’s. So this will be no exception. But my advice to you, is that if you do not own the series, you should fork out the money and BUY IT.
Red Robin #4
$2.99
I don’t want this to turn into a rant, so I will keep this short. Despite the crazy non-linear story-telling and the art that seems to change between whether or not Tim is wearing the costume, I still have to find out what is going on. I was a fan of this book since issue one, but this issue might be the breaking point. This is the final issue of the story arc and hopefully some questions get resolved. What was in the box that Tim had to steal from the museum? Why did they show the assassin being killed at the hearing in DC? Why is Ra’s so obsessed with working with Tim? It seems to me that Chris Yost is starting something that may or may not fulfill all of our questions. This book will be the last time I say BUY IT, unless we get some answers.
So despite being a smaller week for releases, there are still things worth picking up. Some other things worth reading if you need more to read are Wednesday Comics #10 and Blackest Night: Batman #2. If you have not been following Dark Knight Dave’s posts about Batman and Blackest Night, well simply put, you should be. Another book that I have found myself reading month after month is Secret Six. Gail Simone knows how to get people interested. Ever since the crossover issue back in May, I have been hooked. So take this week to check out some of the other books out in the DC Universe. And remember, go support your local comic shop.
Posted by Dustin
This is from the awesome "JLA vs Titans" mini-series. I love how Dick thinks it’s Batman until he hugs him and smiles.
Posted by Josh
As most of may or may not know Blackest Night Batman #2 is set to be released tomorrow, September 9th. (There seems to be some confusion on the release date as IGN reports the release date as Sept 10th and DCU Comics says it’s on the ninth. Perhaps the confusion stems from the Labor Day holiday. Check with your local comic book store.) Either way, we will be treated to the next chapter of how Batman and the denizens of Gotham will come to grips with the horror that is The Blackest Night!
Speaking of treats, IGN has posted a few of the pages for our perusal and as I did with Blackest Night Batman #1 I would like to discuss them here.
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!!!
There, I said it. The standard cover has been out for a while and I am sure I am not he only one who thought of the 1984 Bill Murray classic when they saw it. I just hope someone tells Dick, Damian, and Tim NOT TO CROSS THE STREAMS! Unless of course they are faced with the Black Lantern Stay Puft Marshmallow Man then all bets are off. (Can someone please post their artistic rendition of the Black Lantern Stay Puft man? I would love to see it.)
Speaking of crossing the streams, this brings to mind the set of panels where Dick and Damian have broken into the local Army Reserve armory in order to beef up their assault on the Black Lanterns with some heavy firepower. But I ask you, if Green Lantern has uploaded info into the JLA database, why has Batman chosen flame throwers to “slow down” the Black Lanterns? Surely he must know that, (as we saw in Blackest Night #2) after the Flash wrapped the Martian Manhunter Black Lantern in chemicals only to have Hal Jordan drop a police car on him creating a maelstrom of fire, that this did nothing to slow down the zombified J’onn J’onzz. I would like to see how they reconcile that one. Perhaps Dick succeeds with a trick up his sleeve where Hal and Barry did not.
Lastly, in that same panel does the Syaf drawn Batman look different to you than his previous incarnation in Blackest Night Batman #1? Almost “Bagleyesque” without the overwrought abs. I actually like it. More menacing and darker.
That is just a few of the questions that I am interested in and I hope to see them dealt with in this issue. It promises to be another “scorcher” and I hope you all get to enjoy it with me.
Till then, Ghost Busters!!!
EDITOR’S NOTE: Take a look at 2 of the pages Dark Knight Dave thought were the best out of the preview.
Posted by Dark Knight Dave
Did you ever wonder about the folks that have come along and touched our hearts in the world of batman? and being batman fans, did you ever wonder what day bob kane died or where he was buried? i had wondered this a couple of years ago when the internet was in a young stage of growing and whats funny or weird or morbid some might say is i look for these answers. the site i have visited for a couple of years now is findagrave.com, this is where you will find stars and other famous people and their graves.
Now some might say, apple!!!! why are you looking at graves???’ , well because….I AM THE NIGHT, I AM THE DARKNESS, I …AM …..BATMAN!!! just kidding, lol
Really it’s because i like to say thank you and a tribute to the find folks who have in some way brought us enjoyment and entertainment in so many ways of our favorite hero. and in some way it’s my way of leaving flowers and visitig and never letting them be forgotten. one is Anton Furst, who is anton? He was the production designer on batman 89 and brought a vision till this day still stays with batman. the art deco or some call it ‘Dark Deco’ style he used for batman set the vision for batman 89 and not only that set the ground work for what we saw batman in the 90′s come to be in comics and the batman animated series.
He won an oscar for the Best batmobile ever created 
and other designs for batman 89. but sadly anton did not get to see what his impact on batman would be, anton commited suicide after having a bad break up with actress Beverly D’Angelo in 1991.
This is why i pay my respects, because of him i was able to see the gotham city we only heard about but never saw, he gave us something that will last forever.
Heath Ledger will always be remembered for his great performance as the joker in the dark knight. we all know how he died, but do you know what happened from there? his family took heaths body back to Australia, had him cremated and his ashes spread over a family plot that the Ledgers have. he only has a small headstone with his name right next to his family that have passed before him.
Or Douglas Croft, the first man to play Robin and richard ‘dick’ grayson. He passed away when he was only 37 years old, but he was an actor and also a veteran of world war II. he never even got to see Burt Ward play Robin, when he had played the role some 26 years before. he passed in 1963.
Do me a favor and never forget them, doing this separates us as hardcore batman fans and the regular everyday comic/movie going batman fan. Never forget where you came from, these are your roots. and though they maybe gone, let them never forget that they will never be forgotten and in doing this you find your place in the batfamily.
Posted by Apple
When we last left The Caped Crusader he was trapped in front of an army of fake looking Russian soldiers in the sewers of Russia.
Many people were guessing that these soldiers were holograms. If you were one of those people, then congratulations, you were right. We find out that they were a “clumsy volumetric display” as Batman put it. Silly homeless man, you can’t fool Batman.
Now truth be told, I’m of two minds about this issue. On one hand, we get to see a lot of story and character development. On the other, the issue has a lot flaws. Now be warned, the rest of the review will contain spoilers!
So after Batman shows us how clever he is, he has a little banter with Petr (the homeless man), and we find out that Petr never leaves the sewers, because “Moscow is a jungle!” This leads to a funny joke about the Dukes of Hazard, which I like. But at the same time, if this man hasn’t been to the surface since the Dukes of Hazard were popular, where did he get the equipment to set up a holographic army? It makes no sense!
Batman then leaves the sewers and encounters a bunch of street toughs, who run from him in fear, because they think he is a vampire. Batman tries to convince them that he isn’t scary and that he won’t hurt them. BUT WAIT! I thought Batman was trying to establish a reputation of fear in Moscow, so why is he trying to convince these kids that he isn’t scary?
We go back to the sewers and see the Bear’s face for the first time, while he is being whipped by the Tsar for failing to kill Batman. This ends with the Tsar getting angry and storming out, because the Bear stopped the Tsar from whipping him. This is some pretty good character development for the Bear.
Now we get to my favorite part of the book, which involves Batman “questioning” two men after half drowning them. Awesome!
After this we get a scene of the Tsar telling a kingpin, to tell all the other kingpins to relax about Batman. Which honestly, I don’t think was needed.
Batman returns to his hotel room and is confronted by Colonel-General Lukzov, who has discovered that Mr. Bateman is actually Batman. I can’t imagine how. Batman beats up Lukzov’s men, and convinces the Colonel-General to let The Caped Crusader continue his quest to bring down the Tsar. BUT WAIT! We then find out that Lukzov has been in cahoots with the Tsar! Shocking. And that is the biggest problem with this story arc, it’s really predictable, and as such, it’s not that exciting, or interesting.
Anyways, the book moves on to a very disjointed ending. There’s a page of Batman sneaking up on Petr, then a couple more panels of Lukzov, then a couple panels of the Tsar and the Bear, then a couple more panels of Batman and Petr, then a panel of Lukov’s family, then finally two panels of the cliff hanger. So we are left with the Bear, hiding in some bushes.
Despite the ending being all over the place, it did make me want to find out what happens next, and is the best cliff hanger so far for this arc.
I really am of two minds about this issue, but it really isn’t exciting me, and making me count days until next issue. At the same time, it really wasn’t that bad.
The Art is good but not great, Jocks cover was awesome, but the interiors are nothing to get excited about.
So, to sum up my feelings; I thought it was good but not great, it has good points and bad points. But if you’re not a collector of the title like me, don’t go out of your way to pick this up. I am being generous with the rating, but it is more for anticipation of the next issue than anything else.
Batman Confidential #33:
Reviewed by TheCapedCrusader
Hey everyone here is the first ever episode of BBFB. Please forgive the poor audio quality, it gets better I promise. This is a chance for those of you who haven’t kept up with BBFB or haven’t been listening to get into the Batman comics gently.
Posted by Nick
In light of Cassandra Cain’s recent resignation from the Batgirl I thought it might be fun to show how she got the cowl in the first place.
Posted by Josh
Fool me once, shame on you DC comics; fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time, well I’ve been buying Batman since the 1970’s so it’s understandable. Fool me again? Our own Apple from TBU Comic Podcast episode 27 likes Judd Winick’s take on the new Caped Crusader, so maybe the fourth time’s the charm.
I went to my comic shop, reluctantly pulled out my wallet and paid the $3.54 Canadian for Batman #690. I ignored the Tony Daniel cover that makes Batman’s abdominal muscles look more like a ninety year old woman’s sagging tricep than a hardened six pack. At least Dick has a fierce expression on his face, so maybe the excessive smiling is in the past.
I can’t begin to tell you how much I want to like this, but no matter how hard I try I can’t. Mark Bagley’s interior art is so uninspiring; it completely removes me from any enjoyment I hoped to get from the action sequences. The scene with Penguin and Black Mask is as close to being visually interesting as the book gets, but for some reason I found myself chuckling instead of cringing. And to my great disappointment, the Batmobile still looks like a bug. Objectively, the last page reveal is well staged. I just wasn’t moved in any way. We all knew Two-Face was going to be in the Cave, and the previews already gave us a look at his costume.
I have been very critical of Winick’s light take on Dick as Batman. To his credit he does an about face and gives us a methodical Batman, seriously analyzing his foes during combat. The only problem with this is that instead of reviewing his take on Dick Grayson so it is more in line with Morrison and Dini; he sits Dick out entirely and instead borrows Chris Yost’s Tim Drake and puts him in the Bat-suit. I obviously don’t mean this literally, but isn’t the, I’m being methodical like Bruce, but I make careless mistakes that I will learn from how Red Robin is characterized? Suavestar from TBU Forums is our resident Red Robin expert and reviewer, so he might have a different opinion on this, but just read Tim’s voicing during his roof top battle in Red Robin #2, or his fight with the Huntsman in the last issue. Then compare that with Winick’s voicing of Dick in this issue. I honestly can’t tell the difference. Judd, if you have to copy another writer because you can’t figure Dick Grayson out on your own, please at least copy another version of Dick Grayson, not the only other Batman Family character with his own title.
At least there is a glimpse of continuity between this and the other Reborn books. The scene of Penguin becoming an underling of Black Mask coincides nicely with the storyline in Streets of Gotham. I just hope it was a flashback, because Penguin’s been working for Black Mask for at least the last two Street issues.
The Two-Face angle has the potential for interesting drama, especially considering the past relationship between him and Nightwing. But hiring a teleporter to get access to the Batcave? I can’t decide if that is smartly quirky or just one of the laziest premises I have ever read.
The next issue marks the end of this arc before the return of Tony Daniel as writer and artist. I’ve always believed in second chances, even third and fourth. This decades long fan of Batman comics feels like I’ve been beaten down, gotten up, and then beaten again, and again, and now again. I want to give up and hang up my cowl. But then I think of Batman and no matter how bad things get, he keeps on fighting. Maybe I am foolish, but I’ll be there next month, wallet in hand, buying issue #691. Who knows, last issue we had Terry McGinnis in the Bat-suit, this time was Tim Drake; maybe next time Winick will surprise us with the return of Bruce Wayne!
Batman #690:
Reviewed by Tiggerbrown
Gotham City Sirens was a series created by DC to showcase the bad girls of Gotham, those being Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Catwoman. The series was to be an ongoing written by Paul Dini, and art by Guillem March, and was meant to showcase the three girls, but after issue three, already DC has changed the book, that is not a good sign.
Issue two ended with Harley being kidnapped by Hush, and Ivy and Catwoman going after her, issue three opens with Edward Nigma saying that the Riddler is dead, and Edward Nigma lives on. We then have a short one page scene of Ivy and Catwoman asking Nigma for help, he says no, and leaves them. The issue is not about the ongoing story of the sirens and is just a showcase for the Riddler; it’s all about him getting to grips with the new Batman and them solving a case together as an unlikely duo. Don’t get me wrong after I got past the fact that this wasn’t what I bought the comic for, or even what DC advertised, I enjoyed this issue, but this wasn’t what I put my money down for.
The art by Guillem March is as usual, horrible in the first few pages, then it gets better, then is acceptable at the end, someone needs to take March off this book, as his watercolor style along with art that takes half a comic to work every month is getting annoying. March’s Riddler is, alright, in later panels, but in the first page, he looks like the Joker, it was like March was told he was doing the Joker for this issue, told he wasn’t, asked what to do with the pages and the editor said “Just put some green on it, no one will notice”.
The writer DC advertised for this issue was Paul Dini, but when you look at the cover in the comic shop it says written by Scott Lobdell. DC did not mention in their preview that Dini was being replaced, and that the story would not be about the Sirens, and would focus on the Riddler and Batman, that is annoying as DC just put this out without caring about the fans who wanted to read the story about Hush and Harley, if I wanted to read a Batman/Riddler team up, I would have read one of Dini’s many team up issues in Detective. I have never seen a writer be taken off a comic for a fill in issue and the artist remaining, it is very different. If DC had came out and said “Paul is really busy doing the game, he can’t do issue 3 so filling in is….” but they didn’t, they just advertised a different story and waited till fans headed for the weekly comics to find out. That DC is poor business.
So all in all, this is a good issue for showcasing the Riddler, however it is not the best and not what I bought this comic for, so for that reason and the fact that the art is consistently mediocre I am done with Gotham City Sirens. DC just lost my $2.99 every month, or even my bargain purchase whenever I see this, give this comic a miss, and if you’re like me, and like Good Bat books, give this entire series a miss.
Gotham City Sirens:
Reviewed by Suavestar
Tim Drake meets the Teen Titans for the first time in "New Titans" issue 65. I find their uneasiness of him funny considering the fact that he later winds up leading them.
Posted by Josh