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BATMAN #695

The unthinkable happens when Batman and the Penguin join forces to thwart the mass murder and mayhem of their common foe, the Black Mask. Plus, Batman confronts an adversary from days past who has a score to settle with The Dark Knight.

Written by Tony Daniel
Art by Tony Daniel and Sandu Florea
Cover by Tony Daniel

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  1. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    January 11, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    Yeah yeah yeah, next arc please.

  2. Avatar photo petevaldez says:
    January 11, 2010 at 3:40 pm

    blah blah. meh. meh. tony daniel is PAINFULLY average. please give me back my comic.

  3. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    January 11, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    I’ve really been enjoying this, I have no problem with Daniel writing or drawing this comic.

  4. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    January 11, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    @Darthduck

    I thought the art’s been fine.  I thought his first issue writing wise was mediocre, the second one was great, but his last one had me wanting to put it down.  I can’t even remember what’s happening other than there’s some guy with a scythe who I think is the guy from Year Two and something about Hugo Strange and the Falcones. 

  5. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    January 11, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    To each their own but I really like the fact that there’s almost too much going on.

  6. flapjaxx says:
    January 11, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    Yeah, I don’t have a problem with this run. It’s good enough for what it is. I’m not an expert in the minutiae of what all’s been going on with all the support characters for the last year, but the clusterfuck of characters has been fun enough for me to see. I would think people who actually cared about Gotham at large would actually WANT to read this arc and not just skip to the next one, since–y’know–this arc actually deals with the culmination of everything with Black Mask and all the gangs and different factions? Overall Daniel’s writing has been trending downhill, but it’s still way better than his BftC mini was. I think it’s neat and something different. It looks cool enough, too. I don’t think this can just be dismissed as bad if it were a retread of ’90s Image badness. It’s alright with me. It’s just trying to entertain, throw a few little mysteries out there, have some action in every issue, manage a big cast. I don’t see anything grossly wrong. No really awful dialogue or anything.

  7. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    January 11, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    You guys want some cheese with that whine?  Everyone was praising the fact Daniel was coming back (even though nobody like BFTC) when Winnick was attached, now you’re through with him too.  Everybody’s not going to be as good as Morrison.  Get over it.

    I’m actually enjoying this title.  I didn’t think Winick’s run was too bad either.

  8. Avatar photo redhood22 says:
    January 11, 2010 at 8:20 pm

    i like his art but hate his writing only reason i still red this is loyalty to batman

  9. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    January 11, 2010 at 9:05 pm

    @robbydzwonar

    I actually liked Winnick’s arc… a lot.  Never wanted him to leave. 

  10. Avatar photo Reform says:
    January 11, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    Tony puts things together and it takes time to do ,

     his art is fantastic and as long as the story ends good I like him. 

    @robby  I liked Winnick’s run too esp. the first issue!

     

     

  11. Davetron3k says:
    January 11, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    The thing I like about this book right now is that it’s not Dick TRYING to be Batman. It’s Dick BEING his own version Batman. I don’t love it and I don’t hate it but I appreciate what Daniel is doing.

  12. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    January 12, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    I dropped this  title back in Winick’s run. But I do think that Florea does a great job inking Daniel’s stuff. I wish he would have been around during "Battle For The Cowl" towards the end.

  13. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    January 12, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    I’m really not enjoying this title as much anymore.

  14. Avatar photo mikeandzod21 says:
    January 12, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    How many more issues do we have of this? This has been terrible.

  15. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    @mikeandzod21

    The solicits make it look like March is the last issue of this arc 

  16. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    January 13, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    This issue was about as mediocre as comics get.  Not a single scene I liked, not a single scene I disliked.

  17. Avatar photo ProjectX2 says:
    January 14, 2010 at 12:58 am

    I think this was better than the previous issue but there’s way too much going on.

  18. Avatar photo mikeandzod21 says:
    January 14, 2010 at 2:45 am

    If they re-up Tony Daniel on this after this arc ends I may just stop reading it. Can’t we get Pete Tomasi on this? He can actually write Dick. And exciting comics for that matter.

  19. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    January 14, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    And then I started losing steam…..

  20. Avatar photo jlddlj11 says:
    January 19, 2010 at 11:34 am

    This story hasn’t been too bad, and I really am a big fan of Tony’s pencils.  However, his Dick Grayson Batman seems more like Bruce Wayne (which Dick may be going for) while all the other titles write Batman as Dick.  When reading Batman, I still think Bruce is under the cowl….

  21. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    February 18, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    I didn’t think Winick’s run was too bad either, but there was tons of bitching about it on here when it was going on. 

    Click on Batman and look at how high the POTW percentages were through Morrison’s run and Gaiman’s issues!!  They were so much higher then, WOW!!

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