Batman/Catwoman #9 Preview

[Hypo]

Batman/Catwoman #9 Preview
Writer: Tom King
Artist: Liam Sharp

[Frontier]

Liam Sharp definitely gives this book a new vibe...

[Hypo]

Liam Sharp definitely gives this book a new vibe...

Yea, Sharp brings that "book that actually comes out" vibe - it's different for sure.

[Frontier]

Yea, Sharp brings that "book that actually comes out" vibe - it's different for sure.

Slick burn .

[Micael]

Cobblepot living longer than Batman is crazy

[Frontier]

Cobblepot living longer than Batman is crazy

"Living Well is the Best Revenge."

[marvelprince]

Yea, Sharp brings that "book that actually comes out" vibe - it's different for sure.

Hilarious !

[exile001]

On the plus side it's coming out.

On the negative, I'm really disliking Sharp's art on this. I really they'd found someone whose style was closer to Mann's.

[charliehustle415]

On the plus side it's coming out.

On the negative, I'm really disliking Sharp's art on this. I really they'd found someone whose style was closer to Mann's.

same, it is so jarring and to me oh so ugly.

But I loved his art on Green Lantern

[sifighter]

On the plus side it's coming out.

On the negative, I'm really disliking Sharp's art on this. I really they'd found someone whose style was closer to Mann's.

I just don't like how Sharp draws Joker. It feels like he is always doing something weird with his nose and smile and I don't like it. Worked for old man Penguin though.

[K. Jones]

Honestly Sharp going abstract with some of the art and giving it a freaky Romanticized edge kind of turned me around on the Kingistic past, present and future, story structure f**kery. Sometimes the right artist can make your narrative tomfoolery work despite itself, both tonally and in some of the panel presentation, which by doing overt parallel or repeat motif positions for people draws your eye to the timeline-narrative switchover instead of it being kind of hard to tell sometimes when it's supposed to be transitioning. Like, it goes All-In on the concept. I didn't think all the linework was Sharp's best but I think he does wonders for the actual flow of the Christmas Carol riff. It feels less "all over the place" and more "fun experimental" almost immediately with him doing the layouts.

[exile001]

Honestly Sharp going abstract with some of the art and giving it a freaky Romanticized edge kind of turned me around on the Kingistic past, present and future, story structure f**kery. Sometimes the right artist can make your narrative tomfoolery work despite itself, both tonally and in some of the panel presentation, which by doing overt parallel or repeat motif positions for people draws your eye to the timeline-narrative switchover instead of it being kind of hard to tell sometimes when it's supposed to be transitioning. Like, it goes All-In on the concept. I didn't think all the linework was Sharp's best but I think he does wonders for the actual flow of the Christmas Carol riff. It feels less "all over the place" and more "fun experimental" almost immediately with him doing the layouts.

Which would have been more palatable had he been the artist from the start but changing from a very regimented, detailed and 'realistic' artist to Sharp's messy, dreamlike, heavily stylised vision is incredibly jarring after 6 issues. That's the problem.