Detective Comics #4
written and drawn by Tony Salvador Daniel
inks: Sandu Florea
The Comic
I was wrong. One of the Jokers-On-A-String wasn't a real Joker. At least, it hasn't been revealed yet. (Future retcon?)
You know who I really don't care for in this book? Any new character that has been created. And since this issue seemingly wrapped up some of their story lines for now, I'm really just not caring for anything.
I just don't know what has happened in the past three issues that I should care about that weren't set up as "shocking." See the end of issue #1. Actually, there is one line in this book that really sets up how I feel. Olivia, some new child character that has a relationship with someone in this issue but decides that she will kill for some reason (confused as I am yet?) is being sent to Arkum for an evaluation. A character comments about her with the line "Well, maybe at least we'll figure out if we have enough evidence to press any charges on her by then." Take that line and turn it into if I keep reading, then maybe I might care about any of these characters later on when they show some personality.
And exactly how many Jokers were following Batman down that hallway? Where did they all come from? Any fight scene with the Jokers felt like they were coming out of the background set pieces just like on the old Adam West Batman show.
Gordon just had surgery and no restraints in the beginning of the issue. How did he go from that situation to the next one where he was tied down and had his gun? And if the justification is that Olivia gave it to him and tied him down, why would he bother pointing the gun at her when they would both know that its not loaded?
If there is some justification for these scenes where they will make sense in the long run, then we need to see some of that now. Right now I'm getting the impression that this all is one big mess of a story and that if we keep bringing in mysterious character after mysterious character and offer little to no explanation, then the story will just fall through the cracks.
Grades
Words: 4/10
Pictures: 7/10
Recommend: Nah.
Buy Next Issue: Just completing my collection.
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