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A review by rashthedoctor
Batman: Contagion by Jim Balent, Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Vincent Giarrano, Frank Fosco, Barry Kitson, Kelley Jones, Christopher J. Priest, Alan Grant, Graham Nolan, Dick Giordano, Mike Wieringo, Matt Haley, Tommy Lee Edwards, Denny O'Neil
3.0
This was one of the first Batman books I had read , part of the set up for the No-man's-land storyline , I recently did a re-read . My first read had left me with high impressions of the book , sadly the re-read made me realize how poorly it has aged .
This is not to say that the story is bad , in fact it's still good , but the dialogues, plot progression and art style were really bad . The art style in particular , despite various artists working on it , I don't think I liked any of the style , even keeping in mind of the time of publication of this book .
Again , having read this as a kid , I really had high standards set on my mind for this book, but re-reading it I cringed a lot . Specially every moment of Catwoman's appearance had tagged along with a heavy dose of cringe
But at the end of the day the plot still holds up well enough for me to say that it is readable and entertaining (if you ignore the cringey dialogues and the art) it does have a real campy feel to it , despite the artist trying to portray it as dark .
This is not to say that the story is bad , in fact it's still good , but the dialogues, plot progression and art style were really bad . The art style in particular , despite various artists working on it , I don't think I liked any of the style , even keeping in mind of the time of publication of this book .
Again , having read this as a kid , I really had high standards set on my mind for this book, but re-reading it I cringed a lot . Specially every moment of Catwoman's appearance had tagged along with a heavy dose of cringe
But at the end of the day the plot still holds up well enough for me to say that it is readable and entertaining (if you ignore the cringey dialogues and the art) it does have a real campy feel to it , despite the artist trying to portray it as dark .