Category: Batwing

  • Good for Winick. Even though this issue of Batwing is a letdown–it’s too action oriented, not to mention all the outdoor daytime scenes means no interesting backgrounds from Oliver–it’s just a weak issue of a decent series. Opening the comic with one of the series’s most serious looks at African teenage soldiers probably helps it…

  • I think this issue is better than the first. Winick all of a sudden decides to start confusing the timeline, mixing flashback and so on. Batwing really does feel like a terrible superhero version of Unknown Soldier. But Oliver’s artwork is, no question, excellent. It’s precise without being static. Most artists with this much style…

  • What does Ben Oliver’s art look like without color? I think the colorist adds all the texture to it. But Batwing does look really slick. It looks very Photoshop, very modern. I don’t know if slick is a compliment. I suppose it’s more of a compliment than anything else I’ll have to say about the…