“The Fall and the Fallen” begins! This is the one you’ve been waiting for! Now that Batman has escaped the “Knightmares,” he’s starting to see the forces rallying against him-and that his father from another universe has joined the other side. The C…
“The Fall and the Fallen” begins! This is the one you’ve been waiting for! Now that Batman has escaped the “Knightmares,” he’s starting to see the forces rallying against him-and that his father from another universe has joined the other side. The Caped Crusader finally digs into the mystery of how Thomas Wayne, a.k.a. the Flashpoint Batman, escaped the collapse of his dimension and ended up in this part of the Multiverse. Get all the answers in this new five-part story paving the way for the next big BATMAN event!
Batman issue 70 is the first since the Knightmare story arc that ground the series to a halt. Saying I’m excited moving on, undersells just how much I loathed Knightmares and its array of terrible characterization and pointless plots. The good news is, Batman 70 is orders of magnitude better than 68, the low point of the series post-Wedding. The bad news is, that’s an extremely low bar and issue 70 still isn’t very good. The art is terrific, if uneven. The writing is filled with many of Tom King’s worst tendencies and the plot moves the story forward about 250 feet.
Might as well start with the good and talk about the art, which is split between Mikel Janin and Jorge Fornes. . Mikel Janin has such a smooth line style; its seamless and undeniably him. This kind of causes a problem with this issue. His style and Fornes’ style aren’t exactly similar and give the art a very uneven feel. Not that Jorge Fornes’ art doesn’t belong here. His heavy line art and shadowing are very moody and fit Batman to a T. Jordie Bellaire’s colors look great with both artists and he does his best to make it consistent.
This week in pretentious Tom King features William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. I get it, Tom really wants me to know how deep he is. So he fills his comic books with classic literature and prose. This issue is basically a very over-powered Batman walking through a who’s who of his rogue’s gallery with shocking ease. Bane has driven him to compl..
