Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdchema.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdchema!gino From: gino@sdchema.UUCP (Eugene G. Youngerman) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Comics Reviews (llloooonnnggg!!!!) Message-ID: <312@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 11:32:15 EST Article-I.D.: sdchema.312 Posted: Fri Dec 14 11:32:15 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 02:13:13 EST References: <251@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: gino@sdchema.UUCP (Eugene G. Youngerman) Organization: U.C. San Diego Chemistry Dept Lines: 40 Summary: In article <251@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) writes: >DETECTIVE COMICS #548 [C-] > > I think that I'm a member of a very elite few (I'm in the pleasant >company of Don Thompson of CBG, though). I have been, to put it kindly, less >than impressed with Doug Moench's work on the Batman. After his work on Moon >Knight and Shang Chi, I was waiting with breathless anticipation for his >debut on Batman. Instead, I find the stories to be bland, and the writing to >be terribly self-indulgent, what with the This-of-Night, the That-of-Night, >and the Other-Thing-Over-There-of-Night. And Nocturna gets a big fat zero in >my book. God, was I glad to see that whole story over and done with. > Anyways, sometime in the last two weeks since BATMAN #380, it seems >to me that Moench has become, well, er, "chemically enhanced". This issue of >DETECTIVE was completely off-the-wall (well, as off-the-wall as a Batman >story could get, anyway. All the characters are delightfully out of character. >Vicki and Julia, instead of being catty rivals, engage in a subtley humorous >rapport. Robin's acting a bit clownish, and even Alfred let his hair down a >little: > Jason: "Alfred, why is it that Bruce always falls for the dark > and dangerous dames?" > Alfred:"I'm quite sure I don't know, Master Jason, particularly > with two fine women like Vicki Vale and my daughter > Julia eager to...er, 'jump his bones,' as it were." > > It's been a while since I've enjoyed a Batman comic this much. > I'd just like to comment on the art. To me, Pat Broderick's art has seemed to be repetitive. Always pretty, ( remember his Marionette), but with so much background that I always felt that I was losing the story in the glitz. His women are always formed the same, Marionette and Red Sonja, if you can believe that. So I was real worried when I saw his name on the cover. I was PLEASANTLY surprised. I guess it must be Bob Smith's inking, because the faces don't look at all ( well not much) like a standard Broderick face. There were a couple of panels that I could have sworn came right out of Don Newton's sketch book. I liked the art. (If you hadn't guessed.) GINO