Batman is a far better book than Detective. King has talent for writing.
Batman is a far better book than Detective. King has talent for writing.
Batman White Knight= real Batman
Creature of the Night= real Detective
Shadow/Batman= Batman and Robin
Both main books are just a disappointment despite starting with a lot of promise. I would recommend those other books over Batman and Detective Comics.
By several you mean just 3 right?
He had a prominent role in I am Gotham leading up to Night of the Monster Men
Vanished in I am Suicide
Showed up briefly in I am Bane
Vanished for Rooftops, Button, WOJAR, the engagement and Swamp Thing issues
Showed up briefly for Rules of Engagement
No presence in Super friends and the one shot with the kid villain
No indication of him being in any upcoming issues
Wasn't in the Elmer Fudd one shot or the short story from the first anuual
Background character for one panel in the second annual.
King's Batman is sometimes great, sometimes mediocre, and sometimes awful.
Tynion's 'Tec is consistently awful. It's some of the most boring, schlocky, and derivative Batman writing I've read in a long time.
Mega fan of: Helena Bertinelli (pre-52), Batwoman, Birds of Prey, Guardians of the Galaxy, Secret Six
Fan of: Batman, Cassandra Cain, Wonder Woman, Silk, Stephanie Brown, Captain America, Hellcat, Renee Montoya, Gotham Central, King Shark
Quasi-Fan of: Aquaman, Midnighter, Superman, Catwoman, Nightwing, Green Arrow, Squadron Supreme, Red Hood
Other likes: Low, Hush, Arkham Asylum: ASHoSE, Watchmen, A-Force, Bombshells, Grayson, Unfollow
Team Cap (both Rogers and Danvers)
I've been enjoying both and find them to be distinctly different from each other, so it's hard to compare
Detective has been a great team book, with Batman having the spotlight in his own book
I've actually been trying to cut back on superhero books on my account at the local shop and I can't bring myself to axe either of these titles
I gotta agree with this.
Though on King, even when I'm initially maybe underwhelmed by a story, I'll return to it (maybe in trade) and like it more. I think King's big problem is decompression, it seems like he was two or three issues of story but always makes a 5 or 6 issue arc out of it. When he aims for a one-shot, he can amaze.
Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Batman, by far. Tom King has brought the freshest ideas to the character since Grant Morrison.
Detective is good too.
Put me in as liking both books, on an issue by issue basis, sometimes page after page.
King to me is unpredictable, and the art has been awesome. So I stick with it.
Tec I really like most of the characters and Tyrion has gotten better since his earlier days, how can he not? He was very poor the first half.
I wouldn’t mind if both books got new teams, but it looks like the majority like Kings run, so that’s not happening anytime soon, unfortunately. There’s nothing innovative with what King is doing, so......I’ll love the art.
Detective. I had to drop Batman because it's just unreadable. King is the most overhyped writer in comics.
After many years of buying Tec, and the odd TPB from the other titles I have now swapped to Batman. Batman is more consistent and hasn't jumped the shark as much as Tec. The whole Batman universe(s) suffer from the fact that if Gotham was so bad everyone would move out, and if Batman was really like that he'd be on anti-depressants. But Tec was worse. I picked up a few Batman issues and couldn't believe the difference. Remains to be seen if its as formulaic as Tec. Not sure about Wonder Woman either.