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Batman Vol. 1: I Am Gotham
by Tom King
"Alfred. When it happened. Mother and father. How did you help me?"
"Master Bruce, with all due respect... Each night you leave this perfectly lovely house and go leaping off buildings dressed as a giant bat. Do you really think I helped you?"
The new Batman series from the new DC Rebirth continuity. Honestly, I thought this was a decent volume. I actually liked certain aspects of it.
I really liked Alfred (I found him at his snakiest in this new run), I thought the overall plot had a lot of potential, and I really liked some of the underlying emotions of the story. I also appreciated the throwbacks.
What I liked less was the execution. Some transition scenes, and panelling, were just really confusing. It felt like some part of the scene was missing, as if it was abruptly cut. Not to mention that sometimes when we got narration panels, I got really confused not only about who was speaking but also what they were speaking about. Tom King's ex-CIA background was also visible on the page, but that was neither a bad thing or a good thing. You could just sorta tell.
Overall I thought the story was interesting, and it could had been pushed more because it felt, well, abrupt. A lot of things happened that in my opinion could have been better developed. Still, I was way more apprehensive to start reading this but it didn't turn out that bad.
Also, the line above. The story needs to dig deeper into this, because I always wondered how Bruce would have turned out if he had a good counselor as a kid to help with process his pain.
"Master Bruce, with all due respect... Each night you leave this perfectly lovely house and go leaping off buildings dressed as a giant bat. Do you really think I helped you?"
The new Batman series from the new DC Rebirth continuity. Honestly, I thought this was a decent volume. I actually liked certain aspects of it.
I really liked Alfred (I found him at his snakiest in this new run), I thought the overall plot had a lot of potential, and I really liked some of the underlying emotions of the story. I also appreciated the throwbacks.
What I liked less was the execution. Some transition scenes, and panelling, were just really confusing. It felt like some part of the scene was missing, as if it was abruptly cut. Not to mention that sometimes when we got narration panels, I got really confused not only about who was speaking but also what they were speaking about. Tom King's ex-CIA background was also visible on the page, but that was neither a bad thing or a good thing. You could just sorta tell.
Overall I thought the story was interesting, and it could had been pushed more because it felt, well, abrupt. A lot of things happened that in my opinion could have been better developed. Still, I was way more apprehensive to start reading this but it didn't turn out that bad.
Also, the line above. The story needs to dig deeper into this, because I always wondered how Bruce would have turned out if he had a good counselor as a kid to help with process his pain.