![]() ![]() Often in reality that “greater good” is just code for some government or third party power, which is what we begin to see laid out in this issue.Īlong with this morally gray tone comes a sort of default personality for the team. Like a lot of these “black ops” comic book teams, it takes the concept of “for the greater good” to the point of losing sight of ethics or morality. Huskk really highlight the moral duplicitousness of the Stormwatch organization. The conversations between Director Bones and Dr. While it’s easy to see how they’ll fit together, the individual pieces are still well done. Brisson even lampshades the fact by having Flint refer to it as “the inevitable complication”. That doesn’t make it a bad story, but when you start to see the patterns, it can make things feel somewhat predictable. The story will open with some banter between the team back at base, we’ll get some brief exposition on the new mission, something will unexpectedly go wrong, and then there’s a big action set piece. This series is starting to establish a pretty clearly defined formula. Score: 5/10 Stormwatch: Down with the Kings part 3 Again, if the new character or his story were more compelling this could be something, but as it stands it’s a passable yet forgettable comic. Batman learns that a villain is targeting some crime family, we learn about the villain, and then there’s a fight when he tries to kill the boss. It’s competently told, and Otto Schmidt’s art keeps the action of the fight scenes at the end expressive and tense, but at the same time everything feels very barebones. With an unremarkable villain as the focus, it’s difficult to find much of note to take away from this story. Aside from the superficial baseball stuff, he’s just your run-of-the-mill mob enforcer/burglar. ![]() It’s a very flimsy premise to build a character off of, and there’s never much of anything else to work with. His signature weapon is a baseball bat, which is at least on brand, and was at one point scarred to have his head look like it has baseball stitching. There’s not a lot to go off of there, and baseball puns seem to fill in a lot of the gaps. ![]() So what’s the hook that makes him a worthy addition to the Gotham rogues gallery? Well, apparently it’s that he likes baseball and knows how to put together “the perfect team” for a job. What makes or breaks this approach is the villain themself. Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle’s run legendary run on Detective Comics introduced an original villain pretty much every issue, and then you’ve got stories like Arkham Asylum: Living Hell which almost act as Great White Shark’s extended origin. I don’t want to say that as an inherent negative Batman is a mostly static character, so very often it’s the villains that keep things fresh and interesting. Instead, this is one of those stories that serves as a vehicle to introduce a new villain. He’s in it, but largely just serves as a framing device for the rest of the story, primarily told through flashback. It doesn’t matter and we’ve got plenty to review inside, so let’s get into it. Joker doesn’t even feature in any of them! Oh well, I’m sure that these covers were probably decided upon well before all of the stories were finalized. However, I will say that once again the cover art has absolutely nothing to do with any of the stories inside. I won’t spend this month’s review giving an extended rant about the state of anthologies in comics like I did last month. ![]()
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