Talent
Written by: Tom King
Art by: David Finch, Danny Miki, Jordie Bellaire and John Workman
It sure did take a while for me to get a Batman #3 review up, right? Why is that? It’s the most popular, most well-received comic featuring the caped crusader and one of the most popular, most well-received comics, period. So why did I dilly-dally? Well, it’s because it’s the most popular, most well-received Batman comic and you all already bought it anyway. Writing a review for Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman #3 was comparable to writing an editorial piece titled “Bacon: Still Delicious”… I’m not telling you anything you don’t know already. So when I write a Batman #3 review I have to look for stuff that’s not been said before…which is hard. Alright, I’m done explaining myself so let’s take this thing apart…
Yep, the analysis starts with the cover, but it’s more of a criticism of covers in general: Why is it that the most bad-ass Batman covers in the New 52 don’t actually happen in the comic? First was that super-cool Detective Comics #2 issue with Batman flying some kind of rocket ship…which didn’t happen, and now we have Batman in a knife fight with Talon…and apparently punching through Talon’s stomach or something. Look at Talon’s back—it’s bursting! Really awesome, but it doesn’t happen. And it’s way better than the variant cover. Way to be original, Reis.
Batman swinging one-handed through the city, how much sleep did you lose coming up with that? And isn’t that the wimpiest grappling gun you’ve ever seen Batman wield? I’d put more faith in a laptop duster can and a paperclip.
Batman turned a train into a magnet. How cool is that? I don’t know how the gadget works and it took me off guard a bit since Capullo just drew it as a little silver button, but it somehow turned the whole train into a magnet and that’s awesome. Sort of makes you wonder how they’re going to pull those guys off that train though. I mean, the authorities first thought isn’t going to be “Everybody look for a silver button…looks like your average rivet. That’s our magnet-maker.” They’re gonna have to torch those masks off their faces. Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time, kids!
And another gadget, Batman’s HUD scanned to see if some perp was lying or not. Which I felt kinda iffy about. Batman should be able to tell if a guy is lying or not anyway, but at the same time if Batman’s got the technology to implement something like that he would so in the end I was fine with it.
