Written by Judd Winnick
Pencils: Marcus To
Inks: Ryann Winn
The Solicitation
• BATWING fights pirates known as THE JACKALS as they attempt to smuggle a mysterious cargo.
• BATMAN’S investigation leads him to China to face an unexpected member of his ROGUES GALLERY!
• Guest-starring BATMAN!
Preview
Why I Bought It
This comic has been a surprisingly fun ride that I eventually caught on to after the origin was established. The recent crossover with Batman has been slowly annoying me. It reminds me of the days of reading Azrael and Batman constantly being a guest star in the book. Let the main character be his own man!
What I Liked
This book is putting Batwing back in his own territory, investigating stuff on his own, and trying to give his character's civilian identity something to do.
I like that David is getting some time outside of the costume and he is trying to get a date. I liked that he is investigating a new mystery straight after the whole Night of the Owls story.
The art is this book did take a small shine to me as well. It was really effective and not anything too fancy. Even that cover was OK enough to at least catch my eye.
What I Didn't Like
He is only out of costume trying to get a date for one page. And he gets the date, but then all this other stuff happens that seems so out of place with everything else.
Batman, Batman, Nightwing. Seriously, let this character be on his own. Issue 10 should be the point that you stop having Batcharacters pop in as special guests. This character should be on his own by now. These guest stars are acting as a crutch that just needs to go away.
At the end of the book we see Penguin. Apparently he has had a hand in some of the stuff that Batwing is going through. It is bad enough that we have the hero's side of the Bat-club in this book, now we are going for some on the villain's side as well.
Panel to Remember
The first page when David asks Kia out. The panel where he does makes David look like a crazed killer or an eager 15 year old boy. It is kinda creepy and he has some golden eyes going on or something.
Grades
Words: 5/10
Pictures: 6/10
Recommend: Not at all. Too many other Bat-things going on with this book and not enough of a solo adventure.
Buy Next Issue: I'm really starting to trim down my titles. This was the last one. We had the opening arc, the crossover, and now the continued special guests crossover. I'm done.
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