Batman: Reptilian

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Essentially, it tries to be a late 80s uber-dark Batman story (with European touches like in Arkham Asylum), but feels forced. This is one of those stories that starts with a pretty okay first issue but just gets better and more absurd by the end. Monster Is a Mommy: Not the monster itself, but Killer Croc, who became a hermaphrodite and gave birth to it.

And, if he’d been this silly from the beginning, it could have been delightful, but as it is it’s just bizarre. Batman in this book is worth discussing further, as Ennis’ Batman is unlike most other versions of the character, which may annoy some, but brings me much joy.Freeze getting his broken helmet fixed with “Bat-tape”, to Alfred dusting the dinosaur that’s in the Batcave, thankfully add a lot of levity to a pretty dark story.

Hard to imagine how different it would have felt if Ennis' late long-time collaborator Steve Dillon had illustrated it instead. I don’t stick with Batman’s theory on Croc’s origins and if you go to the bottom of it the main argument is a bit far-fetched if not totally dumb. In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. For anyone interested in the print edition of this, in the back of the hardcover is a variant cover gallery, Ennis’ original pitch for the series that he wrote back in 2016, and Liam Sharp’s initial concept art for the book.All a bunch of neat little extras and Sharp’s concepts show he was going to initially draw this in a different style, which just confirmed to me that the style he ended up going with in the final product was the perfect choice for it. This time around, he indeed presents readers with a gritty, crude, and ugly tale but fails completely in all respects, whether it’s characterization, as he butchers Batman’s persona and offers an irritatingly verbose, sassy, and unamusing take on the superhero, or the narrative structure, as the mystery at the heart of this tale is the only driving force of the story and is ridiculously solved in the final issue to make the whole adventure effortlessly forgettable. It turns out the idea for Reptilian has been floating around for some time as Steve Dillon was originally meant to draw this until his death in 2016 scuppered plans.

Ennis also sees Batman’s rogues in a hilarious manner, viewing most of the lot as outclassed, multi-colored twerps, who couldn’t actually come close to touching the efficient machine of a man that is Batman, even on their best day.I'm waffling whether to give it 1 or 2 stars, but it left a bad taste in my mouth, despite some sparks of creativity. No a nabízí nám tu více satirickou verzi Batmana, kdy tu máte na něj více cynický pohled ve kterém vám dojde že on vlastně není taková dobrá duše a že i jeho konání místy se dá srovnat s padouchi se kterými válčí. It's revealed that Killer Croc was the child of a woman who was exposed to an alien mutagen after a UFO crashed in a Florida swamp, and he's been mutating more and more over his life. Some rare moments of dark and unexpected verbal humor from our title character occasionally liven up the dark proceedings, but otherwise this was unimpressive and unmemorable.

There are definitely shades of Dave McKean and Bill Sienkiewicz in Sharp’s gloomy, expressionistic pages, but his page compositions make these pages absolutely singular. o que acontece aqui nesta minissérie, mas que não deixa de provocar sentimentos diversos e ambíguos àqueles que têm acesso à ela.

It's intriguing and has it's own style but it is visually very dark, to where you can't always make out what is happening in the panel. The obnoxious dialogue really kills anything interesting about the actual story for me and made it a bit of a slog to get through since I had to stop and sigh and roll my eyes every other panel.