A review by luana420
Batman: Blink by Dwayne McDuffie, Val Semeiks

4.0

I was initially turned off by BLINK cuz of the inciting incident is the shockingly violent (for a superhero comic) murder of a 22 year old woman. None of it was on-page, of course, and it’s simply a regular old crime scene, but the stuff Gordon tells Batman definitely made me wince a little. Kudos to Dwayne McDuffie (hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Static shaaawwwck) that he basically makes you forget this by the second issue because this was really just window dressing to get Batman into an elaborate series of twisty chases. Oh the bad guys turned on each other? Oh now one of them has a baby hostage? Oh there’s government agents now? There’s a real wild 1930s vibe to the story structure here (I almost wanna say Tintin-esque!) that just throws new shit at you every few dozen pages and you, like the titular character, are just along for the ride.

“Jeez Batman, don’t you know any NICE people?”

“Hmpf”