A new Detective Comics with the same basic message from DC Comics writers, editors, and publishers: ** They really HATE Batman Bruce Wayne ** (with a passion). Barbatos, the demon again (eye roll). Big whoop. More supernatural woo from Ram V. Give me The Spectre, and he will straighten this nonsense out. But honestly, we are not buying The Spectre, as the title says "Detective Comics." Bruno Maroni should go see an emergency dentist for all of that green goo leaking out of this mouth. Yech. And you know, Batman needs to be rescued by assassin Talia (yeah, right.) And I really don't care about the Orgham Family and Svatrstal. Not Shavhod, not Neng, not Gael (in Gotham - oh woo, we should be scared).
If you like this, and obviously MOST reviewers think it is fantastic, good for you. I won't throw $5 more dollars away for this. Every time, I think Detective Comics is turning the corner, it goes off the rails, crashing down the hill again. DC Editors love it. If they can't "kill" Batman (really), at least make him "over-the-hill," possessed by a demon, etc., as they snicker and take our sucker money.
I mean, GOD forbid, Ram V actually writes a detective story about stopping CRIME... because you know, in the post-modern anti-hero era, Crime is Good. Yech. Take your creeping dread back to your horror stories where it and EC Comics belongs.
And the piece d'resistance: a snarky Nightwing Dick Grayson with a sneer and "Bruce, you ever consider the fact that you just might be getting too old for...." and "I'd kick your butt, old man." OK, with me Ram V! Why don't you just go write Nightwing instead then. Or maybe DC vs Vampires, I mean they killed Batman there. DC Comics and Ram V - you ever consider the fact that Batman fans are fed up with your crapping on Batman Bruce Wayne?
Why should we buy Ram V's Detective Comics if he believes Batman is just "over-the-hill?" Didn't we have two years of that stuff with Mariko Tamaki? If you don't like writing about the Batman character, find another job. Write a different comic. Why bother doing this? And we ALL KNOW. Because $$$$. The ONLY reason DC grudgingly keeps Batman and Detective Comics around.
Ram V - they're not coming and you are still not prepared. Try actually reading a few Detective Comics from the past 80 years. That would be a starting point. But no, you will want this to be another JLA Dark. How are the sales for that? If there hadn't been JLA to prop it up, would you be writing for Dynamite Comics?
(And in the crap follow-on story, we really needed a drunk old Jim Gordon, talking about Alzheimer's Disease and being told to retire. Because that story was really necessary here, right? It would really increase sales.) I mean, heh heh, right, wipe your feet on some more legacy characters.
It is not **all** bad with new team on Tec. I mean after all, Batman is not using the Gotham City sewers for a Bat-Cave. So there is that. So much "progress" with Detective Comics.
It's your $5 and your time.
P.S.: With over 1 million dead in the elder genocide of COVID-19 in USA, which is a speed bump to much of the USA society. The obvious and blatant ageist hate in the writing in Dectective Comics 1062 by horror writer Ram V (and his "old man" dialogue) and "Alzheimers" crap by Simon Spurrier. Ageist hate has become so normalized (like white supremacism), it is not even noticeable by those who view themselves as superior based on their youth. more
By: Ram V, Rafael Albuquerque
Released: Jul 27, 2022
GOTHAM NOCTURNE PART 1 OF 4: OVERTURE. It's a new era for the detective of the night as we introduce award-winning new series writer Ram V (Catwoman, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr), and artist extraordinaire Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire, Superman/Batman)! Together, they'll be turning Gotham into a tragic yet beautiful gothic opera for our ...
I don’t think I said anything about blaming anyone. I also never said you should rate anything to shield creators. Those are simply straw man arguments because they don’t address the only point I made. What I said was, I think you should consider a new hobby if 2.1 is the average enjoyment you get out of it. It certainly can’t be fulfilling to read comics that you rate so low month after month.
I'm not judging as well, but why not rate some old stuff you love or something like that as well as the new bad comics...