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Comics Review: BATMAN: The Detective #1
BATMAN: THE DETECTIVE #1 (OF 6)
DC COMICS
STORY: Tom Taylor
ART: Andy Kubert
COLORS: Brad Anderson
LETTERS: Clem Robins
EDITOR: Ben Abernathy
COVER: Andy Kubert with Brad Anderson
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Andy Kubert with Brad Anderson; Riccardo Federici
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (June 2021)
Rated: Age 13+
Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger
“Batman The Detective” Part One
Batman: The Detective is a new six-issue comic book miniseries. It is written by Tom Taylor; drawn by Andy Kubert; colored by Brad Anderson; and lettered by Clem Robins. This miniseries takes Batman on a harrowing, action-packed European adventure, in which he will meet new allies … and new enemies.
Batman: The Detective #1 opens 36,000 feet above Lancashire, England aboard Wayne Airlines, Flight 89. It is flying from Gotham City to London with 147 passengers when tragedy strikes – and it is all Batman's fault. This very personal and deadly message draws Batman out of Gotham to investigate, but waiting for him is an old ghost and also a name – “Equilibrium.” This story guest-stars Knight (Beryl Hutchinson) and introduces the new Squire (Amina).
THE LOWDOWN: Many acclaimed artists have drawn a Batman comic book or comic book series. My favorites tend to be artists who left their mark on Batman during the last three and a half decades of the twentieth-century: Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo, Frank Miller, and David Mazzuchelli. The twenty-first century has offered an entire new roster of Batman artists for me to love, including an artist who has been drawing some of the most beautiful Batman comic book art for the last 15 years, Andy Kubert.
I bought a copy of Batman: The Detective #1 so that my imagination could enjoy some gorgeous Andy Kubert Batman art, and I am still thumbing through the pages of this comic book. Kubert's aquiline and muscular Batman/Bruce Wayne is like a coiled big cat. My favorite Kubert Batman pages are those splash pages and partial splash pages in which Kubert fills those pages with a larger-than-life Batman or a larger-than-life character, sometimes wearing a Batman-like costume. [Early in Kubert's run as the artist of the ongoing Batman comic book series, he drew a massive Bane in a Batman costume. Wow!]
As for the story, Tom Taylor offers a clever gimmick and hook. Still, I think Batman: The Detective #1 is mostly flat until the second half of the story. There is, however, potential here, but not enough for me to spend $19.95 U.S. plus tax to read the remaining five issues. Andy Kubert is the reason that I am giving this comic book a high grade.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Andy Kubert's Batman art will want to try Batman: The Detective.
B+
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Sunday, June 6, 2021
Comics Review: FUTURE STATE: Gotham #1 Yells "AKIRA!"
DC COMICS – @DCComics
STORY: Joshua Williamson and Dennis Culver
ART: Giannis Milonogiannis
LETTERS: ALW's Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Ben Abernathy
COVER: Yasmine Putri
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: James Stokoe
32pp, B&W, $3.99 U.S. (July 2021)
Rating: Age 13+
Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger
“Hunt the Batman” Part One: “Batman's Land”
Future State: Gotham is a new black and white comic book series written by Joshua Williamson and Dennis Culver and drawn by Giannis Milonogiannis. The series springs out of the “Future State” miniseries, Future State: Dark Detective, and focuses on Red Hood/Jason Todd as he wages a war against the “Bat-family.” Letter Troy Peteri completes the creative team.
Future State: Gotham #1 (Batman's Land) opens with the Red Hood battling “Mecha-Scarface” and Arnold Wesker. Although he is victorious, Jason Todd has earned the ire of the “Peacekeepers.” Then, disaster strikes Gotham City, and all evidence points towards “the Next Batman.” Now, Todd must choose justice over his “Bat-family,” when he is recruited by The Magistrate, which wants the Next Batman dead or alive (more the former than the latter). Peacekeeper Red is born!
But the Magistrate is corrupt. So what is Jason Todd up to in this forbidding world of tomorrow?
THE LOWDOWN: “Hunt the Batman,” the debut story arc of Future State: Gotham, will run six issues. Series writers Joshua Williamson and Dennis Culver offer a story that is explosive and has attractive and engaging characters. They also put Jason Todd/Red Hood in a precarious position filled with uncertainty that will make for high-wire tension and nail-biting drama.
Series artist Giannis Milonogiannis renders Future State Gotham #1 in stark black and white tones. This art evokes a gritty, noir aesthetic that recalls both the 1982 film, Blade Runner, and Katsuhiro Otomo's classic manga, Akira (serialized in Japan's Weekly Young Magazine, 1982-90). In fact, it is not a coincidence and is fitting that this first issue reprints the Batman short story, "The Third Mask," that Otomo wrote and drew for the first Batman: Black and White (1996) miniseries. I think that DC Comics and the creators want us to know that they are producing a comic book that exemplifies what is true to the spirit of Akira, if not being an heir to that manga.
Troy Peteri's dynamic lettering for Future State: Gotham #1 is pitch perfect for this series. His fonts ride Milonogiannis' manga-like action lines as if they were riding lightning. Yes, dear readers, I am strongly recommending Future State: Gotham #1.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Jason Todd and Red Hood will want to read Future State: Gotham.
A
Future State: Gotham #1 includes the following extras:
- a Batman pinup drawn by the late French artist, Moebius
- A series design sketch by Giannis Milonogiannis
- A story from Batman: Black and White #4 (September 1996), “The Third Mask” written and drawn by Katsuhiro Otomo; translated by Jo Duffy; lettered by Bill Oakley
- A “DC Nation” “Spotlight On” Wonder Girl #1 interview with writer artist Joelle Jones
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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