BATMAN STREETS OF GOTHAM #21
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Art by DUSTIN NGUYEN & DEREK FRIDOLFS
Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
Okay. Now that is a way to wrap up an arc. It’s also, in my opinion of course, a very worthy way to end a chapter in the ever progressing story of story of Tommy Elliot. And last but not least, that is the way to wrap up a series!
I’m sad to see Streets Of Gotham go the way of the Do Do, but #21 goes out of business in reasonable style! I wished Morrison had wrapped up all the loose ends and plot threads of his final issue of Batman & Robin with the same fashion that Dini just gets right to the point in this final entry of a somewhat lengthy Batman tale. That issue was such a mess!! I hope more Batman stories end up ending this way (by actually making sense, I guess BW really couldn’t figure out after all this time that the mysterious Dr. Hurt is buried in a box right behind a mansion)…
I have a feeling Dini and Nguyen haven’t worked in Gotham City together for the last time. After all, Streets Of Gotham wasn’t the first Bat-title with the crew at the helm. They worked together on Detective for a good amount of time as well. I hope they get another gig in the future. Third time is a charm!!
Art: 4 - Very Good
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I love Paul Dini’s Batman. Including B:TAS, he has probably written a majority of my favorite Batman stories. But I think the real loss here is Nguyen’s art. The man was born to draw Batman. I think the problem this title had was that no one knew what to expect from it. If this had been its first arc it would have probably had a stronger following, but with several different writers taking the book in different directions, I think this series was passed around a little too much. I never knew if I should expect a Batman story or a story about a random character from Gotham. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the random issues (the issue about the broker is one of my favorite single issues of any comic from 2010), but I just never knew what the book was trying to be.
Also, this was a great review. I agree with everything you said about Morrison’s end to B&R. How about a little closure for a year and a half long run, right?
@buck2889 totally concur on the Broker issue.
Nguyen is doing Batgirl so he’s not all the way outta Gotham yet. I hope him and Dini get to work on the main Batman book after they finally get sick of the junk Daniel is puttin out over there!!