BATMAN ANNUAL #27

Review by: akamuu

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Price: 4.99

Fabien Nicieza wants you to know, immediately, that it IS possible to write a horrible Batman story as part of the Reborn saga.  His dialogue brings to mind Claremont at his worst, “Hey, Robin, you are a bad kid who is Bruce’s son, and I don’t trust you.  Also, you are wearing a red and green suit, wheras mine is blue.”  Ugh.  J. Calafiore goes to all the trouble to draw a bad guy with a tail, only to have Dick Grayson announce “the bad guy has a tail”.

It is the mark of a weak writer to feel that they must telegraph every piece of action.  As though the reader is simply too stupid to follow the plot, and that’s what Nicieza does here.

The art is ok, but certainly nowhere near good enough to make up for this horrible affront to Batman.

This whole thing is, apparently a leadup to Nicieza’s Azrael story, and this is a giant flashing neon sign saying DO NOT BUY.

There is a neat little Nguyen one page Chibi Batman story, which is as awesome as a one page humor event.  There’s a further back up story behind it, which was pretty average.

Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 3 - Good
 

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  1. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    October 7, 2009 at 1:41 am

    Did you try the 3 issue Azrael mini this summer? Cause that’s probably a lot better then this.

    Oh and ‘Gotham City Sirens’ has shown a horrible Batman story with this Reborn era.

  2. Avatar photo akamuu says:
    October 7, 2009 at 2:58 am

    @TNC: I agree completely on the Azrael mini.  I thought that was good to very good.  As for Gotham City Sirens, I don’t hate it.  I think it’s the weakest of the Reborn titles, but I still look forward to reading it.  This issue was so bad, I doubt I’m even going to open the Detective Annual (which is slated to be part two of this trainwreck).

  3. flapjaxx says:
    October 7, 2009 at 8:04 am

    I dunno, if it’s noteworthy or shocking that someone has a tail, then I think it’d be sensible for a character to announce it in order to underscore its importance. If Peter Parker walked in and saw that Aunt May had a tail, I’d expect him to scream "You’ve got a tail!"

    Nah, all getting aside, your points are well taken and I will be avoiding this annual now. I’ve been meaning to check out the new Azrael but I guess I’ll be looking for the initial mini-series instead. Thanks for saving me $5, man (which is too much for annuals anyway!).

  4. Avatar photo akamuu says:
    October 7, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    @flapjaxx: NO, you’re totally right about the Peter Parker/Aunt May tail thing.  But in this comic it wouldn’t have been "Oh my God, Aunt May, you have a tail." but "Oh My God, May, who is my dead father’s sister, wife of my beloved Uncle Ben who taught me with great power comes great responsibility, you appear to have grown a tail, which is an appendage that swings from the posterior of animals.  That is unusual.  And I am surprised by it."

    8D

    And, I agree with you on the price of annuals being too high.

  5. Avatar photo Bryce31 says:
    October 9, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    So apparently in this book nobody will recognize you if you where a beard and color your hair grey.  Batman was just out in the open in front of all the cops!! what was that about?

  6. Avatar photo akamuu says:
    October 10, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    @Bryce31: The DCU is a world in which Superman can hide in plain sight by wearing a pair of glasses. A fake beard and grey hair is practically gender reassignment surgery.  😉

     I think Nicieza just wanted to write "I liked him better when he was quiet, and scary." and so had to come up with a situation for it.  Throwing Dick in with the cops just seemed like a good idea.

     Man, that last sentence could be taken completely out of context.

     

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