BATMAN AND ROBIN #17
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Art by SCOTT MCDANIEL & ROB HUNTER
Cover by GUILLEM MARCH
Size: pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Oh, Paul Cornell, you rascal. I had this 3 parter written off as filler, even if it was written by a scribe of such distinction. Detective has just come off a four part time killer by another Brit and I just didn't give a monkey's, surely this would be more of the same and I'd be impatiently waiting for the new team to get started....
Wrong! This issue whipped past in minutes and I loved every bit of it. A fast read is often a very good thing indeed for me. It means I'm not bored, it means that I'm not finding it a bit of a slog, in short it tends to mean I'm having fun. Cornell seems to have looked at the current dynamic between Damian and Dick and he's just run with it. They banter, Damian mocks, but he does it affectionately, and they in turn look like they're having fun too. In story terms, it flip flops between time frames and builds a really effective mystery. Not only that but Cornell shows the process of the Dynamic Duo actually figuring said mystery out. All of which leads, at breakneck pace, to the cliffhanger ending which left me gagging for part two. By the way, Una Nemo? Best name, like, ever.
On reflection the main reason that I'm chuffed with how well this turned out has to do with just what it proves about Mr Cornell. The man's able to turn his hand to anything. In MI13/Wisdom he turned in a Marvel UK story the equal of anything Ellis can do, in Action Comics he turned the fact that he couldn't have Superman into the most compelling "villain story" in years. Now he's asked to pinch hit on a Batman story, something that couldn't be any more different to the Lex opus, and he just slides it seamlessly into the current status quo and atmosphere. Not to mention coming up with a villain every bit as worthy as most of Morrison's excellent creations of recent years. Genius.
The art, it has to be said, is not really my cup of tea. McDaniel's not really excited me for a long time. Still, it tells the story, it moves along at it's own kind of rapid pace and the man can do a monthly reliably. That's no bad thing.
In the end, I consider myself corrected. I had this written off as inconsequential, but it wasn't. This is good Batman comics folks.
Art: 3 - Good
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