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Batwoman 2 (December 2011)

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Williams is on the “better second issue bandwagon” too. He’s not dealing with introducing the cast and their problems, he’s just moving the story along. Kate and Maggie Sawyer go on a date. It’s not all that interesting, except for Blackman and Williams’s boring dialogue… oh, wait, I got it backwards. It’s interesting because Williams’s style on Kate Kane is to make her practically part of the background. Not easy to do with shock red hair.

But it’s the opposite of what he does with Batwoman. She’s vibrant and practically shining against the drab background.

Batwoman is a book about great comic art. It’s never going to be Promethea, but Williams still does come up with some wondrous stuff. The last page, with a simple image of a bridge, is absolutely stunning.

It’s a good comic, even with the ludicrous revelation supernatural creatures are commonplace in the new DC Universe.

CREDITS

Hydrology, Part Two: Infiltration; writers, J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman; artist, Williams; colorist, Dave Stewart; letterer, Todd Klein; editors, Janelle Asselin, Katie Kubert and Mike Marts; publisher, DC Comics.

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One response to “Batwoman 2 (December 2011)”

  1. Vernon Wiley Avatar
    Vernon Wiley

    In addition to the “second issue theme” advancement of these more readable DC titles, I’d like to mention another track I’d noticed. The difference between what you and I might call their more successful efforts in contrast to their flagship premiere titles.

    Out of all the DC 52 plus that’s been thrown as us, it seems to me (and I’m going to follow through with this line of reasoning in a more step by step basis at work today), is that the best they have had to offer has come from the books that seem to offer the least in salability in the mainstream marketplace. Not that these books are “non-mainstream” by any but the smallest measure, but that perhaps the “editorially driven” premiere titles are so hamstrung that they pale in accessibility and aesthetic success when compared to their more well known brethren.

    As long as I’ve got something I enjoy reading after this has begun, I won’t complain. It just seems odd to me though that the best of the litter are the ones that most likely won’t get the nurturing they need to have longevity, the reason I imagine DC launched them in the first place. These are the books that I believe could push the competitive emphasis at Marvel, and the ones deserving of that push to make DC a more viable company in the marketplace.

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