I always seem to be behind on reviews. I’ll try and catch up by starting with the few comics I bought this week.
Batman Year 100 #1
I get the idea I’ll be in the minority in not praising this book to high-heaven.
Well, that’s $6 down the toilet. Not that this comic was bad, but for $6, it should have been a lot better than a alternate future Batman: Year One riff. Maybe I should have guessed it would be by the title. I can hope that the remaining three issues bring something more original to the table, but am I willing to spend another $18 to find out? Yeah, probably. There’s at least enough of interest to me to keep reading.
The basic plot is this future Batman is escaping from the law, jumping across building tops, dodging (unsuccessfully) some bullets, etc. It isn’t anything I haven’t seen before. And since Paul Pope’s plot really isn’t anything to write home about, you’d at least think that the art would be. I found it rather blah. The cover isn’t going to win any awards, but at least the interior art doesn’t make Batman look like Dwarfy McSquashedHead. I guess Pope is an acquired taste, but it seems to me that (like Mike Mignola), he really isn’t suited for a standard super-hero story. And that’s really what this it.
Bulleteer #3
Not sure how long this has been out: I can’t really remember much of the second issue (which isn’t a good thing), and even now, my mind is forgetting the events of #3. Alix (the Bulleteer) is playing bodyguard at a super-hero convention and meets lots of wacky people. And someone tries to kill her. Then someone else tries to kill her.
I love Grant Morrison, but this isn’t his best work. It’s just mediocre. The first issue was so good and seemed to have a different point-of-view than other comics. But now the story seems more important than the character: I don’t feel I know much about Alix beyond what we found out in the first issue. Perhaps that’s the point: she became a super-hero unwillingly and is using an identity chosen for her by another and at the end of the series, she’ll have figured out what she really wants to do.
I also forget that this series is tied into the whole Seven Soldiers of Victory thing. Of the other series, I’ve only read Zatanna and I think Morrison is doing a fine job of letting both the series stand on their own without getting caught in crazy Infinite Crisis-like half-stories. I hope that continues.
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