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A review by davybaby
Batman: Cataclysm by Eduardo Barreto, Klaus Janson, Jim Balent, Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Mark Buckingham, Devin Grayson, Alan Grant, Scott McDaniel, Graham Nolan, Rick Burchett, Alex Maleev, Jim Aparo, Kelley Puckett
2.0
Oh, Batman. Why can't I quit you?
You'd think I'd have learned my lesson after your "defusing bombs via punching" antics in Arkham Origins. Or your comically raspy voice in The Dark Knight Rises. Seriously, it was like a high-school production of Batman. But no matter how many times you prove to me that you're only as strong as your creative team, I keep crawling back to your strong arms and chiseled jawline.
It's an interesting premise, I'll grant you that. Use a massive earthquake to show that for all Batman's impossible badassery, he is at the mercy of nature like everyone else. By showing how little impact he can have on such an earth-shaking (groan...) problem, you place him more in the realm of the human. And it more or less worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't make for a very entertaining read. You can only see so many people narrowly rescued from the rubble before it gets boring.
The art is also pretty weak. It's only occasionally interesting enough to do more than glaze over it, and occasionally it's POWERFUL ugly.
So if, like me, you can't stay away from the dysfunction that is Batman, you might enjoy this. If you think he's an over-used and over-rated character who needs a break from the pop culture spotlight, this comes rated as "Highly Skippable."
You'd think I'd have learned my lesson after your "defusing bombs via punching" antics in Arkham Origins. Or your comically raspy voice in The Dark Knight Rises. Seriously, it was like a high-school production of Batman. But no matter how many times you prove to me that you're only as strong as your creative team, I keep crawling back to your strong arms and chiseled jawline.
It's an interesting premise, I'll grant you that. Use a massive earthquake to show that for all Batman's impossible badassery, he is at the mercy of nature like everyone else. By showing how little impact he can have on such an earth-shaking (groan...) problem, you place him more in the realm of the human. And it more or less worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't make for a very entertaining read. You can only see so many people narrowly rescued from the rubble before it gets boring.
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Tangentially, I loved that a villain claims the earthquake as their handiwork and tries to cash in on the destruction. It was a believable touch, and gave a bit of mystery to an otherwise straightforward story.The art is also pretty weak. It's only occasionally interesting enough to do more than glaze over it, and occasionally it's POWERFUL ugly.
So if, like me, you can't stay away from the dysfunction that is Batman, you might enjoy this. If you think he's an over-used and over-rated character who needs a break from the pop culture spotlight, this comes rated as "Highly Skippable."