![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
Battle for the Cowl, #1
So, I recently got my hands on the recent Batman run "Battle for the Cowl" I started reading it (I don't read a lot of Batman, so this is an odd thing for me) and decided as I wanted to write a review on it. Kind of a half writing excersize, half putting more written stuff out there.
Wow, I'm really putting a lot on my plate lately, I've recently started a podcast, which I am continuing to work on, and my writing whenever I can, and now I'm planning on doing these reviews. So, here it goes.
For anyone who isn't in the know, Batman is dead. Bruce Wayne that is, the idea of Batman will always live on, but Bruce Wayne is dead. "Battle for the Cowl" is the story of who is going to take over for Batman.
Issue 1
"Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead?"
Written by Fabian Nicicza
Art by Dustin Nguyen, Guillem March, Chris Cross, Jamie Mckelvie, Alex Konat, Mark Mckenna
Colors by Guy Major Guillem March
Assistant Editor Janelle Siegel
Editor Mike Marts
The cover was almost amazing. It has the headline to the Gotham Gazette (Which is also the name to the issue) and it fades into the bat-signal with Gordon and Bullock standing around the base. Gordon looked awesome, but Bullock looked like a cartoon, it really pulled me out of the cover. THat was part of my problem with this book, the art across the whole thing was horrid. It was all very cartoonish, not that I'm always in favor of nitty-gritty super realistic art, but I want some shading, some level of realism, and I did not get that with this book.
A lot of the dialogue felt forced too, especially the character at the beginning and end of the issue, they wrote her dialogue in a forced rhyming scheme that did not work well, because people (even comic book people) do not talk that way. There was also a taxi-driver and the beginning of one issue that said, and this is verbatim from the book "Peeked a very bahd time to veesit Gotham miss", wow...talk about racism.
All in call
Cover: 3/5
Art: 1/5
Story: 3/5
Overall: 2.5/5
If they had patched up the dialogue and made the art a little more crisp this probably would've gotten a higher rating, at least a 3/3.5
Well, there it is, I'm looking forward to doing more of these.
Wow, I'm really putting a lot on my plate lately, I've recently started a podcast, which I am continuing to work on, and my writing whenever I can, and now I'm planning on doing these reviews. So, here it goes.
For anyone who isn't in the know, Batman is dead. Bruce Wayne that is, the idea of Batman will always live on, but Bruce Wayne is dead. "Battle for the Cowl" is the story of who is going to take over for Batman.
Issue 1
"Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead?"
Written by Fabian Nicicza
Art by Dustin Nguyen, Guillem March, Chris Cross, Jamie Mckelvie, Alex Konat, Mark Mckenna
Colors by Guy Major Guillem March
Assistant Editor Janelle Siegel
Editor Mike Marts
The cover was almost amazing. It has the headline to the Gotham Gazette (Which is also the name to the issue) and it fades into the bat-signal with Gordon and Bullock standing around the base. Gordon looked awesome, but Bullock looked like a cartoon, it really pulled me out of the cover. THat was part of my problem with this book, the art across the whole thing was horrid. It was all very cartoonish, not that I'm always in favor of nitty-gritty super realistic art, but I want some shading, some level of realism, and I did not get that with this book.
A lot of the dialogue felt forced too, especially the character at the beginning and end of the issue, they wrote her dialogue in a forced rhyming scheme that did not work well, because people (even comic book people) do not talk that way. There was also a taxi-driver and the beginning of one issue that said, and this is verbatim from the book "Peeked a very bahd time to veesit Gotham miss", wow...talk about racism.
All in call
Cover: 3/5
Art: 1/5
Story: 3/5
Overall: 2.5/5
If they had patched up the dialogue and made the art a little more crisp this probably would've gotten a higher rating, at least a 3/3.5
Well, there it is, I'm looking forward to doing more of these.
Comments