The Stop Button

This issue is a little less rancid than the first one. Maybe I’m just amused by Daniel’s complete inability to write people talking to each other. Unless, of course, he’s trying to imply Bruce Wayne is flirting with some dude in the first scene.

Then, immediately following, when Wayne gets naughty with some TV reporter… it feels like a beard. If nothing else, Daniel’s Detective will be funny for the closeted gay Batman.

It also might help Daniel has inkers. The art’s still bad. I mean, I guess the Dollmaker and his family are supposed to be gross and scary, but Daniel and the inkers are too slick. It looks like these things could be action figures, not hideously deformed monsters.

Daniel goes with another cliffhanger, less “shocking” than the last one, but even stupider.

I did like seeing Paul Pope’s Year 100 bike getting some regular use.

Detective’s crap.

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Playtime’s Over; story and pencils by Tony S. Daniel; inkers, Ryan Winn and Sandu Florea; colorist, Tomeu Morey; letterer, Jared K. Fletcher; editors, Janelle Asselin, Katie Kubert and Mike Marts; publisher, DC Comics.