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A review by cjordahl
Batman: Strange Apparitions by Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Terry Austin, Walt Simonson, Marshall Rogers
2.0
Is it unfair to judge a 40-year-old comic book by my 2017 tastes? Is it uncharitable to find the 1970s style art, dialog, and narration boxes to be hokey, melodramatic, and corny? Some moments were so Adam West Batman.
It strikes me as lazy writing when characters simply blurt out their motivations or plot points from past issues to bring readers up to speed. I don't know, maybe that was the going style. I suppose the creative team probably was pressured to cover a lot of ground in limited space. But still... ugh.
It strikes me as lazy writing when characters simply blurt out their motivations or plot points from past issues to bring readers up to speed. I don't know, maybe that was the going style. I suppose the creative team probably was pressured to cover a lot of ground in limited space. But still... ugh.