James Harvey
01-13-2002, 03:19 PM
<a href="http://www.comicon.com/newsarama">Comic Newsarama</a>'s Mike Sangiacomo wrote a very intelligent and well done piece on the current Bruce Wayne: Murderer storyline currently running through the Batman titles. Below is an excerpt:
Spoiler warning for Batman: The 10-Cent Adventure and upcoming "Murderer" and "Fugitive" storylines...
DC writers are always trying to come up with ways to keep the Batman mythos from getting stale.
What could be more different than the world's greatest detective trying to solve a typical murder of a woman by her ex-lover? How about if the suspect is Bruce Wayne, Batman's billionaire alter-ego?
The current storyline running through DC's Batman family of comics has Wayne framed for the murder of his former girlfriend, Vesper Fairchild. The killer did such a good job of implicating Wayne for the murder that the police placed the billionaire businessman in the clink to await trial.
What happens next is the stuff of the "Bruce Wayne: Murderer" storyline that will run through almost every comic in the Batman family all of January and February. It doesn't end there. The story then evolves into "Bruce Wayne: Fugitive" as Batman decides that his playboy secret identity is no longer worth keeping.
The storyline will continue in most of the Bat-books until a grand finale in late July, with aftershocks rumbling around as subplots for months to come.
But all this means nothing if the story is just an exercise in futility like the horrible Joker: Last Laugh mega-crossover that infected every mainstream DC superhero book. I'm not sure, but I think it even drifted over into a couple CrossGen and Image comics. Marvel shouldn't get too smug, either. The "Nuff Said" experiment of wordless comics all December worked for a few titles, but sure made me want to shout something unprintable after the first week.
To read the whole, great article, go <a href="http://www.comicon.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000052.html">HERE</a>.
Spoiler warning for Batman: The 10-Cent Adventure and upcoming "Murderer" and "Fugitive" storylines...
DC writers are always trying to come up with ways to keep the Batman mythos from getting stale.
What could be more different than the world's greatest detective trying to solve a typical murder of a woman by her ex-lover? How about if the suspect is Bruce Wayne, Batman's billionaire alter-ego?
The current storyline running through DC's Batman family of comics has Wayne framed for the murder of his former girlfriend, Vesper Fairchild. The killer did such a good job of implicating Wayne for the murder that the police placed the billionaire businessman in the clink to await trial.
What happens next is the stuff of the "Bruce Wayne: Murderer" storyline that will run through almost every comic in the Batman family all of January and February. It doesn't end there. The story then evolves into "Bruce Wayne: Fugitive" as Batman decides that his playboy secret identity is no longer worth keeping.
The storyline will continue in most of the Bat-books until a grand finale in late July, with aftershocks rumbling around as subplots for months to come.
But all this means nothing if the story is just an exercise in futility like the horrible Joker: Last Laugh mega-crossover that infected every mainstream DC superhero book. I'm not sure, but I think it even drifted over into a couple CrossGen and Image comics. Marvel shouldn't get too smug, either. The "Nuff Said" experiment of wordless comics all December worked for a few titles, but sure made me want to shout something unprintable after the first week.
To read the whole, great article, go <a href="http://www.comicon.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000052.html">HERE</a>.