From the award-winning team of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev, it's DC's biggest whodunit in years! The world's greatest detectives-Batman, Green Arrow, Lois Lane, Plastic Man, the Question and Martian Manhunter-ha…
From the award-winning team of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev, it's DC's biggest whodunit in years! The world's greatest detectives-Batman, Green Arrow, Lois Lane, Plastic Man, the Question and Martian Manhunter-have gathered to solve the mystery behind the true identity of Leviathan's leaders and the destruction of the world's top intelligence agencies! Red Hood is their leading suspect-and he is on the loose! Plus, the Silencer takes her shot! This mystery will unleash a new evil on the DC Universe!
Brian Michael Bendis’ first big event book at DC Comics, Event Leviathan, is off to an ominous start. Thus far few happenings, if any, presented in the first 2 issues weren’t included in the lead up in Action Comics, Superman: Leviathan Rising special or Year of the Villain special. Bendis’ long history of difficulties with pacing, generic dialogue and ignoring continuity are very evident once again in this story.
Event Leviathan’s cast of street level characters including Batman, Mahunter, the Question and Green Arrow are supposed to highlight his strengths as a writer. At this point that just isn’t the case. Alex Maleev’s art has been a saving grace of sorts for the book. The art hasn’t been great but it hasn’t been terrible either. He drop ball significantly this week.
What makes Alex Maleev’s performance in this comic book so, so bad? The first two issues featured little action of note. I predicted his highly stylized, muddy illustrations aren’t the right approach to a superhero story. I was right. The comic features a double-page 18-panel action sequence that is the most incomprehensible series of graphics I’ve encountered in a very long time. There’s no sense of continuity in what’s supposed to be a showcase action set. And this continues on during the rest of the action scenes in the book. The jumps are extremely jarring and worst of all downright confusing.
Alex Maleev’s art takes a huge step back this week due to all the action. His..
