BATMAN AND ROBIN #4

Review by: akamuu

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Price: 2.99

Phillip Tan is not Frank Quitely.  And that’s ok.

I love Quitely’s work on this title, and I can’t wait to see him back.  But Tan’s art is merely a step down, and not a huge tumble off a rocky cliff.  He hits all the important parts that the other Reborn artists have missed Dick Grayson does not look like Bruce Wayne, Damian is a little kid, not a teenager,  and Grant Morrison villains must always be really fucken creepy.  His rain is a little 1980s for me, and some of his panel placement is questionable, but not to the point where I had to put the book down and shudder.

The story continues to be excellent.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 3 - Good

Comments

  1. The art is only a 3? I dont know….I mean I just saw a preview and it looked amazing.

  2. 3 is good.  Nothing in the book amazed me, but neither was I put off by it.  His penciling style just didn’t wow me.

  3. I viewed the preview on IGN. It was hard to make out what was happening because the laptop screen blurs everything, but the art didn’t look too bad once I figured out what was happening and gave it another look.

    This is going to be on the top of my reading stack tonight followed by Streets Of Gotham #4 and ASM #605. I’m still questioning if I want to spend $4 on Blackest Night #3, the tie ins really do me a lot more justice then the main event, probably because I am so far behind in the Green Lantern world.

  4. Agree with robbydzwonar, Tan’s art here is not bad at all. Pretty standard superhero comic booking if you ask me. Not a deal breaker on whether or not to pick up this book.

  5. I just read the preview and have to say , i really hate the art. I mean its your really standard and typical superhero work, but i just felt like the art was really muddy and dark just for the sake of being dark. Not really a deal breaker though, considering morrison’s writing has been so good on this book.

  6. I wonder how Tan would feel about seeing four people on one page describe his art from varying degrees, but most of them qualifying it as "not a deal breaker".

  7. I like his art but some of his panel placement at the beginning wasn’t that good.

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