And I Am Going To Get Slammed For.
Oh yes. Well, the story is all over the place. In theory, this would be a good comic to intro someone to Batman. Great art, a Bat-villain a chapter. But Loeb kind of makes the mistake of A) going too deep into Bat-continuity, a mistake you could say Morrison also made in his most recent run. But I digress. B) Loeb simply isn’t the greatest writer anymore. I used to like him on Marvel’s Colour line (Spider-Man: Blue, Daredevil: Yellow, etc. This might be due to Tim Sale though) and his Superman For All Seasons. But lately, and maybe starting with Hush, he hasn’t been on top of his game, sadly.
So in short, great art. Ok story. Sadly, just a tad too inaccessible for the true Batman newbie.
Agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments.
I agree. I particularly liked Bruce meeting Clark and later meeting up as Bats & Supes. I, off course, have barely any DC knowledge, but I liked the transition between them as soon as the capes were donned. The villain a chapter build-up was nice too.
While I really like the comic, both the story and the art, I also found I missed out on stuff because I didn’t know everything that happened in Batman’s past. (I had to google some things afterwards)
I don’t know if that’s a bad thing per sé. I mean there are plenty of good X-men stories for which you’d need a lot of background info and that are inaccessible to newbies.
A good comic is not necessarily a good *newbie* comic.
As for Loeb. I think Wolverine: Evolutions was *awful*. Ugh. & from what I heard, his work on the Ultimate universe is kind of crappy too.
True. But I think DC marketed it as a jumping on point (Embarrassingly, perhaps, I did jump on Batman with Hush. My first time buying a serial Batman comic), so I think I can argue that it should’ve been newbie friendly.
In that case; yes, they’ve missed the point by far.
It’s not a good newbie comic.
But seeing how you and I have started our Batman ‘careers’ with it, I think they might have succeeded afterall
Huh. Mind = blown now.
Yeah, they kinda did, I guess.
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