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scans_dailyIt's an entirely self-contained conclusion, written by Shawn Martinbrough and drawn by Tony Akins.
It's a story where Jason Todd goes to the Hill, the Gotham neighborhood on which the 2000 one-shot Batman: The Hill turned. That was drawn by Martinbrough, and written by Christopher Priest.
This is the Hill in the present day, gentrified but suffused with criminals and vigilantes.
#51 is about those parties, seen by and around Jason - he himself is in costume for just two panels.
The issue doesn't lack because of that, though - the dynamics of those other parties stand on their own.
The man atop the criminals, the son of Demetrius Korlee from that one-shot this is a sequel to, had an acquaintance walk into his office with some new product.
" Misell, what the hell is this? "
" That, KJ, is the next wave. My new muse is Killer Croc. "
Elsewhere, Jason was chatting with his childhood friend Dana.
(Yes, there's some overlap between the Hill's vigilantes and that neighborhood watch.)
Korlee Jr. stepped into his rooms.
" Junior " turned on Thomas.
That night, Tommy reached out.
" That, my scaly friend, is inspiration. "
(On the one hand, " points on all Croc merch, plus a tailor-made suit " is enough to justify Croc's inclusion in this story.
On the other hand, this is moving further from where Croc was at the end of Gotham City Monsters back in February.
What balances the two is Martinbrough owning up to how mechanical this is - " Initially, I pitched Clayface for this story. However, in current Batman continuity, Clayface is living life on the straight and narrow. So [editor Ben Abernathy] suggested using Killer Croc.. Getting Killer Croc out of Arkham Asylum.. would allow the character to be available for Future State or any future DCU storylines. " - and then scripting an organic exchange like the above in the story.)
Things started moving - Jason confronted the local vigilante Strike, whose identity you've got good odds of guessing from these pages, and Korlee Jr.'s door was broken down.
(Pagecount's 7 of 22 - issue #52 came out this week.
Inks're Stefano Gaudiano, colors're Paul Mounts, and letters're Troy Peteri.)
It's a story where Jason Todd goes to the Hill, the Gotham neighborhood on which the 2000 one-shot Batman: The Hill turned. That was drawn by Martinbrough, and written by Christopher Priest.
This is the Hill in the present day, gentrified but suffused with criminals and vigilantes.
#51 is about those parties, seen by and around Jason - he himself is in costume for just two panels.
The issue doesn't lack because of that, though - the dynamics of those other parties stand on their own.
The man atop the criminals, the son of Demetrius Korlee from that one-shot this is a sequel to, had an acquaintance walk into his office with some new product.
" Misell, what the hell is this? "
" That, KJ, is the next wave. My new muse is Killer Croc. "
Elsewhere, Jason was chatting with his childhood friend Dana.
(Yes, there's some overlap between the Hill's vigilantes and that neighborhood watch.)
Korlee Jr. stepped into his rooms.
" Junior " turned on Thomas.
That night, Tommy reached out.
" That, my scaly friend, is inspiration. "
(On the one hand, " points on all Croc merch, plus a tailor-made suit " is enough to justify Croc's inclusion in this story.
On the other hand, this is moving further from where Croc was at the end of Gotham City Monsters back in February.
What balances the two is Martinbrough owning up to how mechanical this is - " Initially, I pitched Clayface for this story. However, in current Batman continuity, Clayface is living life on the straight and narrow. So [editor Ben Abernathy] suggested using Killer Croc.. Getting Killer Croc out of Arkham Asylum.. would allow the character to be available for Future State or any future DCU storylines. " - and then scripting an organic exchange like the above in the story.)
Things started moving - Jason confronted the local vigilante Strike, whose identity you've got good odds of guessing from these pages, and Korlee Jr.'s door was broken down.
(Pagecount's 7 of 22 - issue #52 came out this week.
Inks're Stefano Gaudiano, colors're Paul Mounts, and letters're Troy Peteri.)
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Date: 2020-12-23 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-23 10:05 pm (UTC)1) "Leave the crime fighting to the pros. It's dangerous work"
Said literally less than a minute after a line indicating the Bat-family did absolutely nothing to protect the Hill during the Joker War because he's just flat out amazed the entire neighbourhood isn't a smoking crater right now
"Going out and defending yourself is dangerous! Just hide somewhere and hope the insane clown people kill someone else instead"
Just
I beg you writers, please take a second pass at your work.
2) Killer Croc yay!
Killer Cros being evil...boooooooooo....why can't they just let him run his hotel
Just let him run his Monster Town hotel and retire from crime it's not like fans are DESPERATE to see more more stories where Croc and Batman fight or that he's a character who has a wide range of stories you could tell with him as a villain...I get undoing nonsense like for instance Geoff John's idiotic idea of making Lex Luthor a "Hero". Lex "Reforming" was always a stupid idea and he both worked better as a villain and had better story potential as one. But Killer Croc is a character who I think is much more interesting when he reforms because as a villain the kind of stories you can use him in are very limited because of the nature of the character. He's not an evil mastermind, he doesn't have a gimmick or power that can lend itself to new ways for things to play out...he is a big angry crocodile man.
He's not a BAD character but any story where he's a villain it's gonna be the same thing. He breaks stuff, possibly he eats someone, he gets into fisticuffs with Batman and that's it. Much as I dislike the Joker and feel that he's overused I will say you can do lots of different stories with the Joker so I get why writers fixate on him...Croc? As a villain he's VERY limited
But as a hero? or as an anti-villain or a neutral character? LOTS of potential for drama, for pathos, for tug at your heartstrings stuff
Making him just a villain again feels like a waste :(
3) Twenty one years?
THANK GOD that means that DC have officially scrapped that nonsense from the New 52 about how long the heroes have been around
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Date: 2020-12-23 10:54 pm (UTC)But I'm so confused. I have absolutely no idea what is going on.
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Date: 2020-12-24 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-24 03:39 pm (UTC)Also it's weird to me that they didn't solicit the next issue as the final one... I kind of wonder if they're going to reboot it after that 6-part backup story he's got coming up. If so, please, please, please, get rid of that horrible new costume.