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A review by davidblais
Batman #1 by Tom King, Matt Banning, David Finch
2.0
This is my first foray into Batman since... boy, probably the very early beginning of the Morrison years. I've completely skipped Snyder & Cappulo's acclaimed run so I was coming into this without any expectation, but very interested to see what Tom King and David Finch had to offer. I was a bit weary about the latter considering I didn't particularly like his style but to my surprise, the art was by far my favorite part of this issue. Finch's style has definitely evolved since I was last exposed to it. I can see a bit of Frank Miller in there and way less early Image influences, all positives in my book.
As far as the writing is concerned, I was less than impressed. I like my super heroes more on the realistic side and let's just say that my disbelief was definitely NOT suspended by the whole "riding a 747 propelled by ejection seat reactors"thing... I would also have like a bit more meat around the bone, especially in an introductory issue like this one. The plot is pretty thin and the big plot reveal comes it at the very last page leaving us waiting for the next issue to know more on those new characters. I'll probably still give this series one more try but after the rebirth issue and now this one leaving me pretty cold, it's on the chopping block.
As far as the writing is concerned, I was less than impressed. I like my super heroes more on the realistic side and let's just say that my disbelief was definitely NOT suspended by the whole "riding a 747 propelled by ejection seat reactors"thing... I would also have like a bit more meat around the bone, especially in an introductory issue like this one. The plot is pretty thin and the big plot reveal comes it at the very last page leaving us waiting for the next issue to know more on those new characters. I'll probably still give this series one more try but after the rebirth issue and now this one leaving me pretty cold, it's on the chopping block.