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A review by rashthedoctor
Batman: Detective Comics, Vol. 9: Deface the Face by James Robinson
3.0
[Read as Single Issues]
Man I miss James Tynion IV's run in Detective comics .
So This was good in parts , the first part of the book , running in continuity with the aftermath of the Bat-wedding , sees Batman do some Detective work , and it was fun to read that . Lately it does feel like the only detective work Batman does is punching people . This was him actually visiting crime scenes and tracing fallacies and collective evidence and then later.... well punching people .
This was also the first book that connected the Scott Snyder All Star Batman run , which I really did enjoy a lot , so I will count that as a pro for this book .And the best part of this book for me was the stunning artwork , Some of the splash panels in particular , I kept staring for way too long to appreciate them. There was also a short bit about Firefly and that was quite fascinating to read as well
But the plot in the end came off as way too convoluted , with a distinct lack of a proper villain. But the most grating thing for me was how Robinson's Batman behaved , he talked too lot , he threw jokes and kept explaining things to his enemies and making puns even and acting all jovial . This was in contrast to how the story started with Bruce struggling to cope with the events of Bat-wedding . And all the chatty things really made me feel like I was reading Dick Grayson's Robin and not Bruce Wayne's Batman
Man I miss James Tynion IV's run in Detective comics .
So This was good in parts , the first part of the book , running in continuity with the aftermath of the Bat-wedding , sees Batman do some Detective work , and it was fun to read that . Lately it does feel like the only detective work Batman does is punching people . This was him actually visiting crime scenes and tracing fallacies and collective evidence and then later.... well punching people .
This was also the first book that connected the Scott Snyder All Star Batman run , which I really did enjoy a lot , so I will count that as a pro for this book .And the best part of this book for me was the stunning artwork , Some of the splash panels in particular , I kept staring for way too long to appreciate them. There was also a short bit about Firefly and that was quite fascinating to read as well
But the plot in the end came off as way too convoluted , with a distinct lack of a proper villain. But the most grating thing for me was how Robinson's Batman behaved , he talked too lot , he threw jokes and kept explaining things to his enemies and making puns even and acting all jovial . This was in contrast to how the story started with Bruce struggling to cope with the events of Bat-wedding . And all the chatty things really made me feel like I was reading Dick Grayson's Robin and not Bruce Wayne's Batman