The Stop Button

Batman has really small feet. I would have thought DC had an edict about Batman having big feet.

Tony Daniel’s writing is disastrous. His Batman narrates in the present tense; Daniel doesn’t understand how to write in present so it’s mostly past tense, but with present tense verbs. Maybe the editor just ran it through a “find and replace” function before it went to the printers.

But the tense isn’t the major problem. The major problem isn’t even Daniel trying to make Batman funny. The reader’s supposed to laugh at his observations about the terrible world around him.

The major problem is the dialogue. Daniel couldn’t write dialogue for a Hostess Fruit Pies ad convincingly. Reading it actually makes one embarrassed he or she is wasting time on Daniel.

Detective Comics stinks. Daniel thinks being mean is the same as being edgy. And his art’s lousy too, though not spectacularly.

CREDITS

Writer and penciller, Tony S. Daniel; inker, Ryan Winn; colorist, Tomeu Morey; letterer, Jared K. Fletcher; editors, Janelle Asselin, Katie Kubert and Mike Marts; publisher, DC Comics.