The Stop Button

I have a hard time… respecting Reality Check. This issue reveals the Batman stand-in is just sexually frustrated and that frustration is why he’s broken out of the comic book world into the real world.

In other words, Brunswick isn’t going for high brow. He’s not going for lots of laughs either. He’s trying to combination get a smile and go for the heartstrings. The villain is apparently some obnoxious white DJ who stole the protagonist’s college girlfriend. To make matters worse, the Batman guy likes her too. And won’t go back to the comic books until the protagonist helps him score.

Check is sort of the comic one would expect from Kevin Smith, actually.

Bogdanovic’s art works pretty well. There’s an exceptionally lengthy action sequence with lots of talking for the first third of the comic and Bogdanovic sells it.

The comic remains strangely compelling. Brunswick’s plain affable.

CREDITS

Writer, Glen Brunswick; artist, Viktor Bogdanovic; colorist, Paul Little; letterer, Rus Wooton; publisher, Image Comics