After weeks of serious posts, here’s a light hearted comic book review! Because Pastors also need a break from heavy reading!
James Tynion IV. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 4: Deus Ex Machina. Burbank, CA: DC Comics, April 10th 2018. 144 pp.
4 out of 5
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This is volume five of Batman’s Detective Comics. The volume collects Detective Comics issues # 963-968 and DETECTIVE COMICS ANNUAL #1.
The bulk of this volume is the multiple chapter story “A Lonely Place of Living.” This story started off with Timothy Jackson Drake being alive contrary to what many have thought in previous Batman stories. Timothy is held in an isolated placed where some mysterious and hidden individual asked him question about his past and how he eventually became Robin. Whom the mysterious interrogator was turned out to be quite a surprise for Drake. Drake was able to send out a message to get help only for the alleged Batman that showed up turning out to be the Drake of tomorrow. Again this was a total surprise for Drake especially since the Drake of tomorrow is more cynical but also more better in his intelligence and combat ability. As the story progress the Drake of today along with other team members helping Batman has to fight off the Drake of the future from hurting one of their own. But the fight feature great dialogues that raises the issues of the whole Batman and caped crusaders’ enterprise. Very well written! The story also leaves readers wondering of what happened in the future that would result in such a cynical Drake. It left me as the reader with a lot of questions though it was a compelling storyline that made me want to know more and anticipate future issues and volume that would answer my questions. But then the volume transition to other stories that did not seem to be related to the rest of the volume that was rather anticlimactic and leaves fan rather confused. I think it was a rather big letdown and volume five should have ended with the story of “A Lonely Place of Living” instead of smaller stories that felt more like fillers.
NOTE: This book was provided to me free by DC Comics and Net Galley without any obligation for a positive review. All opinions offered above are mine unless otherwise stated or implied.
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