The Stop Button

So the editor at DC read this script and said, “Yeah, this is good enough.” Interesting.

I don’t even blame Snyder because it’s clear he digs the early eighties Batman and he’s sort of modernizing it (with continuity adjustments). Oh, and referencing Misery. Got to have a major motion picture scene rip in each issue apparently.

Snyder skips explaining why Dick’s forgiving of the Gotham blue bloods. He also skips explaining Dick’s escape from them, which is a bigger deal.

He needs to save room for the showdown and Jock drawing a giant mutated Man-Bat variant? Very boring. Jock got famous for doing iconic action, not for doing creatures ripped off from Alien 4.

There’s not even a Jim Gordon backup this issue, which isn’t so much bad as awkward. I was expecting one.

Snyder’s actually good at characterizations and dialogue. He’s just a terrible plotter. He needs help.

CREDITS

The Black Mirror, Part Three; writer, Scott Snyder; artist, Jock; colorist, David Baron; letterer, Jared K. Fletcher; editors, Janelle Siegel and Mike Marts; publisher, DC Comics.