Snyder opens the issue with narration from Dick playing over the storyline’s inciting action. Still, it took until Alfred shows up in the next scene, talking to Dick in the penthouse, for me to realize Snyder and Jock’s Detective Comics is about Dick Grayson as Batman. I was honestly expecting him in the pixie boots.
It’s a straight mystery issue, with some superhero strangeness—one victim is Killer Croc Junior, another’s a Mad Hatter drone, the third has Poison Ivy’s vines growing out of him.
Where Snyder does well is with Dick acclimating to being Batman with Bruce around, learning to work with Commissioner Gordon—both as Batman and as Barbara’s ex-boyfriend or whatever. It’s good, though Jock’s art doesn’t seem suited for a procedural.
The Jim Gordon backup—with another Snyder script, but Francesco Francavilla on the art—is fine too. Though I never remember his son exists.
CREDITS
The Black Mirror, Part One; artist, Jock; colorist, David Baron. Skeleton Cases, Part One; artist and colorist, Francesco Francavilla. Writer, Scott Snyder; letterer, Jared K. Fletcher; editors, Janelle Siegel and Mike Marts; publisher, DC Comics.
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