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A review by antlersantlers
Batman: Death by Design by Chip Kidd
2.0
Very disappointing. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 solely because of the architectural details.
At first glance, the art looks really beautiful -- moody, responsive, and atmospheric -- But it really didn't make sense when reading the comic. It took me a while to figure out why it looked so weird and then it hit me: most of the characters' mouths were closed when they were talking. It looks so ridiculous. And the color palette is awful. It's almost all a soft charcoal color, with some not-very-dark darks and some very strange pastel color accents. Gross.
There's also just waaaay too much writing. It was so boring to plod through because there was too much to read with so little visual pay-off. I had no investment in the plot or the characters, and one of the characters is Batman!
At first glance, the art looks really beautiful -- moody, responsive, and atmospheric -- But it really didn't make sense when reading the comic. It took me a while to figure out why it looked so weird and then it hit me: most of the characters' mouths were closed when they were talking. It looks so ridiculous. And the color palette is awful. It's almost all a soft charcoal color, with some not-very-dark darks and some very strange pastel color accents. Gross.
There's also just waaaay too much writing. It was so boring to plod through because there was too much to read with so little visual pay-off. I had no investment in the plot or the characters, and one of the characters is Batman!