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BATMAN #691


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  1. Avatar photo magnum240 says:
    October 12, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    Wish Winnick wasn’t leaving so soon.

  2. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    October 12, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    @magnum240  i wish winnick and bagley weren’t leaving so soon

  3. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    October 12, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Haven’t been too happy with Winnick on this run.  Kind of feeling the opposite of you fella’s.

  4. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    October 12, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    Haven’t really been enjoying this so much. it feels really pointless, to me. I wish we could just merge Streets of Gotham into this book. I was debating pickiing this up… but I’m dropping it as of now!

  5. edward says:
    October 12, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    that, sir, is a truely stupid costume

  6. Avatar photo Fvckstick says:
    October 12, 2009 at 10:16 pm

    im gonna second Prax. I was all in that first issue Winnick wrote right after BFTC, but this "arc" hasnt gotten my interest at all. I dropped it two issues ago until Daniels is on.

  7. Avatar photo WinTheWonderboy says:
    October 12, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    I think I’m gonna stop with this issue. Wasn’t a big fan of Daniels writing on Battle for the Cowl.

  8. Avatar photo stuclach says:
    October 13, 2009 at 9:07 am

    I’m going to flip through this at the shop and pick it up if it looks interesting.

  9. Avatar photo JesTr says:
    October 13, 2009 at 10:31 am

    I may drop this after this issue as well.  I haven’t made up my mind.

  10. Avatar photo Xomneon says:
    October 13, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Ditto, drop. 

  11. Avatar photo JMS74 says:
    October 13, 2009 at 11:17 am

    I’m gone after this issue.. taking a bit of a break on this title.  Might as well finish the arc though.

  12. Avatar photo glunders says:
    October 13, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    Winnick is good, Bagley fucking blows. I’m excited for Daniel to be handling art duty again after this arc, but he can’t write to save himself.

    And I agree that the Two-Face Batman costume looks obscenely terrible, but previews show it’s just a hallucination, which makes me like it a lot more.

  13. Avatar photo glunders says:
    October 13, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    And when I say Winnick is good, I meant just on his Batman work thus far. Certainly has not always been stellar in the past. 😉

  14. Avatar photo JesTr says:
    October 13, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    @glunders: I prefered the Ed Benes issues to Bagleys but I didn’t mind his work.

  15. Avatar photo glunders says:
    October 14, 2009 at 5:32 am

    I’m just not a fan of Bagley in general. Specifically in regards to Batman, I think his style is too… zany and friendly, if that makes any sense. (He makes a little more sense to me on something like Ultimate Spider-Man, I guess. Even then I don’t exactly adore his work, but the tone strikes me as more appropriate.)

  16. Avatar photo glunders says:
    October 14, 2009 at 5:33 am

    Or like, on Trinity his style made sense, because it was a big fun adventure story. Batman’s been too intense and gritty for him.

  17. chadbowen248 says:
    October 14, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Well, all I can say is that i’m glad Winnick’s done, not that impressed. Glad Mr Daniels is coming on board. At least the art will be awesome, who knows maybe the story too, I didn’t think Battle for the Cowl was bad.

  18. Avatar photo Spoons says:
    October 14, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    This was a fairly average issue for me.  It didn’t really grab me till the last couple of pages though.

  19. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    October 14, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    I really liked this issue, particularly the second half.  It’s been awhile since any book has made me miss Bruce, and this issue definitely did that.

  20. Avatar photo Mustbedamned says:
    October 15, 2009 at 2:26 am

    Best issue of the arc. It finally felt like the story was moving forward. Plus the last two pages caught my interest.

  21. Avatar photo JesTr says:
    October 15, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    @Mustbedamned: I agree.  I was surprised by this issue.

  22. Avatar photo USPUNX says:
    October 16, 2009 at 12:28 am

    I have really enjoyed this arc. Not super pumped about Daniel, I liked Battle for the Cowl enough but it felt all over the place, unfocused. Winick has started several story threads in this arc and I’m not sure Daniel can handle them all as a writer.

  23. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    October 16, 2009 at 3:46 am

    What the hell? A good issue of Batman & Red Robin in the same week?? Whoa. This was good except for one part — Two-Face buying that Dick was really Batman. Bruce & Dick would have totally different body types, voices, fighting styles etc etc etc & maybe it would fool some people, but how many times over the years would Two-Face have faced (pun) both Bruce AND Dick? Of course the easy answers are “Two-Face is crazy” or “it’s a comic book” … but it just was way too much to swallow.

  24. Avatar photo ProjectX2 says:
    October 16, 2009 at 6:22 am

    I hope Daniel’s arc is going to be a lot better than Winick’s mediocre arc.

  25. Avatar photo siraim says:
    October 16, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    @WadeWilson The way I read that scene was that Two Face didn’t believe Dick was anything more than a sidekick in the suit.  Didn’t believe he could be anything more than that.  With Alfreds assist, Dick was able to wriggle free, disappear and be as menacing as Two-Face expects Bruce to be. It’s a leap of faith to believe Dent bought it, but it kinda worked for me.

  26. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    October 17, 2009 at 2:18 am

    After all the bluster, I picked this up and was pleasantly surprised.I gave this a 4/5. It was probably the best of the run. Bagley’s art looked a little better here. Or at least, it looked a little less USM. Not exactly jazzed for Daniel, and this is going to be put up on the chopping block again next month.

  27. Avatar photo theegreatone says:
    October 20, 2009 at 1:49 am

    I like that that costume wasn’t real.

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