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A review by billyjepma
Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 1: Mythology by Peter J. Tomasi
4.0
I haven’t read Detective Comics thinks Tynion’s (great) run ended, but the build-up the 1,000th issue got me to dive back into it and I’m glad I did!
Peter J. Tomasi pens a really fun and exciting story here with a lot of great “Batman being an actual detective” moments and a lot of equally great “Batman punching things” moments. Doug Mahnke’s pencils are also fantastic, and the layouts for each issue were impressively diverse. Just a lot of great Batman stuff in this arc.
The final issue kind of derailed things for me, though. The final twist was unexpected, but deflated a lot of the tension and stakes that the rest of the story had done so well building up. Not a dealbreaker for me, because it’s still a good ending, but it definitely inhibited the memorability of the story. Still a solid 3.5-4 stars!
Peter J. Tomasi pens a really fun and exciting story here with a lot of great “Batman being an actual detective” moments and a lot of equally great “Batman punching things” moments. Doug Mahnke’s pencils are also fantastic, and the layouts for each issue were impressively diverse. Just a lot of great Batman stuff in this arc.
The final issue kind of derailed things for me, though. The final twist was unexpected, but deflated a lot of the tension and stakes that the rest of the story had done so well building up. Not a dealbreaker for me, because it’s still a good ending, but it definitely inhibited the memorability of the story. Still a solid 3.5-4 stars!