Batman #5

[aeka]

If a song is to be written about this issue of Batman, I would call it 'Batman's Going Slightly Mad.'

Added this for all the cameos



And onto the main point...

Comments

[icon_uk]

Good issue, though given that Batman has just come back from a year plus of being dead, I don't think eight days would faze most of his family (also a shame that we get only one panel, one freaking panel of Dick and Damian)

[aeka]

And only one panel of Catwoman for me. Even in that one panel, she looked better depicted than in all five issues of Catwoman put together. :(

[darkknightjrk]

I don't know if I'd go that far, but Capullo does do her justice. Did you see his drawing of her he did recently for an art print?



The only thing that bothers me is what I've been noticing with how everyone's drawing her lately--the fact that when zipped up there's this strip of her neck flashing. It just looks weird, like Selina left her cowl in the washing machine for too long.

[aeka]

I wasn't commenting the artwork, I was commenting on the writing. In just that one panel she appeared to have more depth than she has in all of the Catwoman issues we've seen. :P

[darkknightjrk]

I greatly disagree with that, too. It's a slightly different take, but there really is a lot of character depth in the current ongoing.

[aeka]

Agreeing to disagree here, but I would hardly call Winick's take on her as having 'depth' when nothing of the story's development happened organically and a lot of her 'in depth' scenes with Lola were handled at full force in the story's infancy, which lessened the emotional impact if it was meant to have one. His characterisation of Selina's character is pretty shallow at best.

[darkknightjrk]

I think even if you take away the Lola stuff there's still some depth there--her relationship with Batman alone shows that, not to mention her temper and her head having conflict with her impulse when it comes to her life of crime. This, in my opinion, is the most interesting, conflicted, strongest take on Selina since Brubaker, and while they're approached very differently, I think they're about equal in terms of depth.

[aeka]

I think you and I have a very different understanding of the word 'depth' if you seriously equate Winick's shallow handling of the character to the far more qualitative writing of Ed Brubaker. So I'll just leave it at that.

[darkknightjrk]

And I'll say that just because shallowness is part of a character's trait doesn't mean that the handling of said character is shallow.

Shake?

[aeka]

(1) Do not mistake Winick's own shallow understanding of the character and what she is about as the character having 'shallow traits,' and (2) you're now arguing in circles.

[icon_uk]

Is it fleshtoned? In the post it appears to be a different fabric rather than skin, which makes sense, since a leather one-piece with a cowl would seriously restrict being able to turn your head.

[darkknightjrk]

I don't think so--it seriously looks like her cowl shrunk in the wash.

[icon_uk]

The pic in your post, yes, that looks like a shrunk cowl, but the in the main post, there seems to be no skin exposed.