Detective Comics #1062.....4.5 Stars

 

Detective Comics #1062



Detective Comics 1062 is a tale of two comics. The main story written by Ram V is an enthralling 5 star read in my opinion, and the back up story written by Simon Spurrier, a dryer less entertaining affair, so let's start with the former. 

This month DC unveiled it's new all star writing team for both Batman & Detective Comics after having a shaky and somewhat transient creative team on the two titles for the last several months, with neither Chip Zdarsky (On Batman) or Ram V disappointing on their premier issue. Whether they can keep the quality up remains to be seen, but it's looking positive thus far. 

I don't like to give away too many spoilers when I think a comic is good, so I'll just say Bruce is doing a routing check near the shipyards when he finds that his timing is off in rounding up some run of the mill thugs, and he therefore has to deal with the possibility that something is either off, or come to the acceptance that he's just getting old. During this time an old love affair returns to town to warn him of an impending danger that is about to arrive in Gotham, and that his age is starting to slow him down. The impending danger itself doesn't sound to original to be honest, but in fairness the story hasn't even begun to unfold, and Ram V's pacing is excellent, as well as some pretty nice dialogue between Bruce and Dick Grayson (Nightwing). Finally, some pretty decent art by Albuquerque. I'm probably being generous here, but this is a five star debut for me, now for the backstory. 

Simon Spurrier's backstory is pretty dense and wordy, which wouldn't be a problem if the story was captivating, but unfortunately as stated before, it's a bit of a dry affair. The art by Dani doesn't lend a hand to the story either, as it's pretty murky, adding to the feeling that your reading something that is rather drawn out for a few pages. I like some of Spurrier's work, but I think part of the problem here is that he's invested heavily into the thought bubbles of a character (as much as many of us love Commissioner Gordon) that  I'm not to sure will be able to keep fans captivated enough to plough through the whole story, when they could be reading something a little more action packed from a superhero in the Bat family (or outside of it) who currently doesn't have their own title. As the backstory is part of the comic....

4.5 Stars


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Aquamen #1.... 3 Stars

Image
  Aquamen #1 First off I hate the name. There technically should only be one Aquaman, and as one of DC comics big six heroes he should be headlining his own title, both for marketing and brand reasons.  However let's address the elephant in the room. It's long since been believed that DC feels there is a lack of racial diversity in their titles (This is an indisputable fact), and that they've been planning to rectify this by replacing current white male heroes. (There is evidence to validate this line of thinking, ie Firestorm, Atom, Mr. Miracle, Blue Beetle/The Question, but a lot of it is speculative as well)  At any right, I would have preferred at the very least Aquaman and Aqualad as the title, as we've already seen what happens to comic sales when you have a partitioned fanbase preferring one of the two Flash's, Firestorm's or six of the Green Lantern's, so you can imagine what will happen to Aquaman sales once one is headlining and the other is not. A
Read more

Aquamen #2..... 2.5.... stars

Image
  Aquamen: Issue 2 It's no secret that both DC and Marvel have been taken to the woodshed by Scholastic and Manga of late, when it comes to selling comics or graphic novels that are marketed towards pre teen and teen readers, but here at least, is one area where DC is outselling Marvel. When one reads Aquamen 2, one gets the sense that the writing is targeted for younger teenage readers, which in theory isn't a bad thing, except one major problem... Aquamen is designated for the direct market, and I'm unaware of where comics can be bought for younger readers these days outside of comic stores, for the days of finding a plethora of comics on the twirling magazine racks at your corner store is long gone, so I'm not sure how much of these printed issues are going to get in the hands of 12 years olds, which brings us to problem two.... It is clear that the narrative resolves around Jackson Hyde as opposed to Arthur, but the problem with this is,  unless you've been tuni
Read more

Tim Drake Robin #1....3 Stars

Image
Tim Drake Robin # 1                                                    No I'm not going to give this 1 star, like a lot of comic fans would like me to do, but I do sympathize with Tim Drake fans. Having one of your favourite heroes continuity changed for the sake of gender politics, and then tossed to a writer who has a non conventional writing style, only to be called a bigot on reddit or comic forums when you protest, is a really shitty thing for DC to do to Tim Drake fans. I was never a Tim Drake fan, by the time the  90's were in full swing I was done with sidekicks, but I always recognized he was an extremely popular character. Not many titles reach 50 issues let alone 183! Which is what the Robin title reached under Tim Drake, so you think that DC would clue in and realize that there was a big market out there for another Tim Drake run, but DC never learns do they. They still think that comics is primarily a demographically transitory hobby, and that they can make full sc
Read more