Hasn't Batman been borderline incompetent/useless in most of these event stories? It feels like it.
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I believe Dixion had the benefit of professional and organized editorial staff and leadership, which meant he was able to build on a coherent continuity with well defined characters. I have enjoyed parts of Shadow War, and Williamson's writing, but... While I believe many of the characters are purposefully ooc (especially with Nezha story intersecting from World's Finest), but the poor characterizations leading into Shadow War mean we don't see "hey, that character is ooc" but rather "ugh, here we go again, ooc characters."
Unfortunately that means Shadow War isn't exactly No Man's Land...enjoyable, though.
Other than an obvious cash grab, I really don't see the point in any of this.
Two major villains got killed but everybody knows they won't stay dead which will also make the obscure superhero turn antihero angle pointless. Also, I don't buy into what Talia did to Slade. Lady Shiva, I could. Talia, not so much and I'm not insinuating she's not deadly becuase she is, just not as deadly as Slade.
I’ve just read the two latest issues. That Geo-Force reveal wins the prize of least surprising cliffhanger ever. Can’t believe Williamson dragged this out so much and expected readers to not figure it out. It was obvious from the first issue, then the tunnel thing just confirmed it and we were stuck with issues and issues of Batman being dumb as f***.
Plus some dialogues are so cringe-worthy. That Catwoman line? Ugh.
This is coming from someone who actually enjoyed Williamson’s Robin prior to the Respawn reveal, but my faith in him as a writer after reading this event, the Justice Incarnate mini and JL#75 have completely disappeared. I’m even more worried about Dark Crisis now than I already was.
The “twist” was telegraphed in issue 1 and the reveal happened 7 issues later. Regardless of how fast the shipping was, storywise that was dragged as hell. Especially since it was still treated as a huge surprise and not an obvious conclusion everyone involved should have thought about.
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I don't read Batman books that much but Joshua Williamson was doing such a good job with Deathstroke that I decided to pick these up and it's been pretty fun.
I didn't really pick up on it being Geo-Force until the encounter with Batman and Robin at the Italian guy's place lol.
I wonder if this is going to tie into that group Talia is a part of in Infinite Frontier since JW is on that too.
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