DustinRiccio
Monday, March 14, 2011, 03:35 AM
Title: Batman and Robin #21
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (dcomics.com)
Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Pencils: Patrick Gleason
Inks: Mick Gray
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Number of pages: 32
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Publishers Blurb:
The new regular creative team of writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Patrick Gleason continue their run with "Dark Knight, White Knight" part 2 of 3!
Batman and Robin find themselves in the middle of a deadly crusade as "angels" continue falling from the skies! The White Knight is shining his heavenly light into the dark corners of Gotham City in his quest to vanquish the shadows of the soul...
Reviewer Comments:
The first issue of this arc was sort of forgettable, literally, in the sense that I couldn't seem to remember if I had read it or not. Turns out I had and it just wasn't a memorable Batman comic. Making a memorable Batman comic is in itself a pretty Herculean task considering how many stories the Caped Crusader has been in. This current arc isn't shaping up to memorable, but the 2nd issue is an improvement on the 1st and things are starting to get rolling. We still have a crazy angel like being that seems intent on killing Kirk Langstrom's family. Batman and Robin show up on the scene and then start to unravel what exactly is going on.
Patrick Gleason's art (with Mick Gray inking and Alex Sinclair coloring) is dynamic and striking in the fight sequences and moody and intimate during conversations. He succesfully captures the body language of all the characters, including the crucial dynamic between Dick and Damian. The new villain has a simple, but striking and sort of creepy look, which is ideally what the look of a new villian should be. Gleason also captures a great moment towards the end where blood from a victim drips onto Jim Gordon and he momentarily loses his cool. It's a small character moment rendered well.
Peter J. Tomasi is also mostly succesful in capturing the Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne dynamic, though a joke on Damian's part about Twitter sort of thudded (yeah, he is a teenager, but he's not really a teenager, if that makes sense.) The story at large does start to get interesting and is at least fairly unique. There's nothing more annoying when reading a Batman comic than realizing that the story you're reading has already been done before any number of times (see: David Finch's Batman: The Dark Knight.) Tomasi and Gleason have yet to really carve their names into the Batman mythos, but this story is a decent read and seems to be picking up steam. I'm gonna stick around and hope it keeps improving.
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (dcomics.com)
Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Pencils: Patrick Gleason
Inks: Mick Gray
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Number of pages: 32
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Publishers Blurb:
The new regular creative team of writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Patrick Gleason continue their run with "Dark Knight, White Knight" part 2 of 3!
Batman and Robin find themselves in the middle of a deadly crusade as "angels" continue falling from the skies! The White Knight is shining his heavenly light into the dark corners of Gotham City in his quest to vanquish the shadows of the soul...
Reviewer Comments:
The first issue of this arc was sort of forgettable, literally, in the sense that I couldn't seem to remember if I had read it or not. Turns out I had and it just wasn't a memorable Batman comic. Making a memorable Batman comic is in itself a pretty Herculean task considering how many stories the Caped Crusader has been in. This current arc isn't shaping up to memorable, but the 2nd issue is an improvement on the 1st and things are starting to get rolling. We still have a crazy angel like being that seems intent on killing Kirk Langstrom's family. Batman and Robin show up on the scene and then start to unravel what exactly is going on.
Patrick Gleason's art (with Mick Gray inking and Alex Sinclair coloring) is dynamic and striking in the fight sequences and moody and intimate during conversations. He succesfully captures the body language of all the characters, including the crucial dynamic between Dick and Damian. The new villain has a simple, but striking and sort of creepy look, which is ideally what the look of a new villian should be. Gleason also captures a great moment towards the end where blood from a victim drips onto Jim Gordon and he momentarily loses his cool. It's a small character moment rendered well.
Peter J. Tomasi is also mostly succesful in capturing the Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne dynamic, though a joke on Damian's part about Twitter sort of thudded (yeah, he is a teenager, but he's not really a teenager, if that makes sense.) The story at large does start to get interesting and is at least fairly unique. There's nothing more annoying when reading a Batman comic than realizing that the story you're reading has already been done before any number of times (see: David Finch's Batman: The Dark Knight.) Tomasi and Gleason have yet to really carve their names into the Batman mythos, but this story is a decent read and seems to be picking up steam. I'm gonna stick around and hope it keeps improving.