DETECTIVE COMICS #1

Review by: JohnnyDestructo

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Written by TONY S. DANIEL
Art by TONY S. DANIEL and RYAN WINN
Cover by TONY S. DANIEL

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

Title: Detective Comics #1
Writer and Penciler: Tony S. Daniel
Inker: Ryan Winn
Publisher: DC Comics
Reviewed by Johnny Destructo

Did you enjoy Tony Daniel’s previous work on Batman? Well ….this is more of that. So much so, in fact, that it doesn’t actually feel like it belongs in this new DCnU reboot. It just feels exactly like the stuff I was reading before. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely quality stuff! Batman is bad-ass, the Joker is a maniac, just as we love him….it just doesn’t have that “new universe smell” that I’ve been getting from the other #1 issues this week and last. Ok, sure Jim Gordon has red hair and a red mustache. Batman is wearing his over-designed new suit. Fine. Other than that though…nadda-so-much.

For the most part, Daniel has made great leaps in his drawing style in the past couple years. Used to be a time I couldn’t stand him, but he’s slowly starting to tumor on me. And there’s SOMEthing about the way Daniel is drawing Batman’s face and cowl that feels extremely Frank Miller Dark Knight-ish, which is pretty cool. He’s also added in some of the Todd Mcfarland “Batman is a pointy shadow with eyes” look as well from the Batman/Spawn crossover. There is a specific panel though that looks dreadful. Check out the page where Batman shows up to see Gordon in front of the Bat-Signal. Gordon looks great, the background is stellar and detailed, but Bats himself looks like he was scanned in from a high-schooler’s notebook. And I realize this is probably Daniel’s doing as well, but the inking goes from super-detailed, thinly lined to quick and sketchy, almost messy. It’s a little disjointed.

Overall though, this is a solid issue, it just doesn’t feel like a great beginning for such a classic title. To stop numbering Detective Comics and restart with a #1, it had better bring down the moon, but this is just …good.

Story: 3 - Good
Art: 3 - Good

Comments

  1. It’s the tiny ears and blocky face.

    The last part was gross.

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