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In one sense, I suppose, it's as if George has had a skek at Tony Denial's... oeuvre and thought "this man is - basically - a child, what will he like drawing?" which could make for some wilfully moronic stuff, and basically I'm all for that. Especially in Batman comics, really. Touch of mania, anything to upset the people that generally read them, pretty much.
But on the other: I really can't agree that this art is even up to the standard of Andy K's - it's a decent cover certainly, but the majority of Kubert's were - imo - really good; I mean the Joker card crying tears of blood one wasn't particularly, it was dreadful, but the first couple and all the 'Three Ghosts' were pretty bombing, i'truth. Within the comic, he proved himself at least capable at the art of the splash page, and some occasionally pretty tricky panel construction (Gordon falling onto the safety net sort of colludes architectural lines with speed ones for example) - certainly Tony's best pic in the preview is the 'Batman readied to punch' double-page, so I do think there'll be qualitative similarities, but if you consider Kubert's worst* - and I've not seen Daniel come close to his best work, which so far as I'm aware was on this comic, but already equal that - I think it'll be a pretty depressing look altogether.
On the crossover: I'm just assuming it'll be like X-Cutioner's Song, where - let's say your smalltown newsagent only stocks X-Force, you are 13, and the 3 parts of 12 make no fuckin sense whatsoever as independent entities - I'm just assuming that's how crossovers are structured, when they actually crossover. Not like 'events'. Maybe 'Officer Down!', 'No Man's Land' and whatnot weren't quite like that? So, while I neatly skirt the terrible possibility that I may in some way be a 'completist' (ick), you might want to sit down of an evening, a lazy Sunday afternoon - not that the child allows the latter, some time in the future and read the complete "Return of Ra's al-Ghul". You might, because the Batman issues might not be discrete entities, and then it might be shite because you had to, again - just like with the X-Cutioner's Song - read some Fabian Nicieza comics. And even if you stole them digitally, you wouldn't be able to sit and read a concrete thing, it's annoying. But then, why would you want to, because Fabian Nicieza? So it's a quandary - I will buy the next issue of Batman, and then possibly be really annoyed on discovering I need to buy the tie-ins and do so anyway. Cue some frankly repugnant self-loathing.
*Like... that scene where Bruce and Jezebel are dining in the Alps; has Andy not seen the interior of a restaurant? Also, did he attempt to craft the shonked perspective by drawing with his paper wrapped around a boat's stern? Perhaps that's what they teach in his dad's school. |
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