Wednesday Spoilers 2025-04-02

Absolute Batman #7, Batman: Dark Patterns #5, Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #1, Batman and Robin (2023) #20

Absolute Batman #7

Hm. You know? So... Nick Dragotta isn't on this book anymore? I guess? I'm sure Marcos Martín is an incredibly talented artist, and there were some very well drawn panels in here... It's just... Hm. I feel like I have to show what I'm talking about...?

The top image is a range of Martín's drawings of Bruce. The ones that felt off or not right to me on the left of the red line, and the ones I thought were better on the right of the red line. The second image is a range of Dragota's drawings. On the left are examples of Bruce where he seemed off or weirdly drawn, and on the right drawings of Bruce that I felt were well done. It isn't that Martín can't draw well, I'm not going to put it here since it is quite gorey, but the page where Matches dies is exceptionally well done, but his Bruce especially feels wildly inconsistent. Compared to Dragota, who's art felt very consistently well done (I really had to search for things that felt "wrong"), it's just kind of off-putting of a switch. Martín's art style is also a lot simpler than Dragota's (which is fine, I adore Juni Ba's art style which is also quite simple), which feels like kind of a jarring shift. I hope that we see more consistency from Martín in future issues, because I definitely want more of stuff like Matches' head exploding with blood lol, that page was great. As for the story. It seems fine. I trust Snyder. I'm excited to see where this goes.

Batman: Dark Patterns #5

Have not read this yet T_T

Fire & Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #1

Have also not read this yet T_T

Batman and Robin (2023) #1

OH this comic is so cute. Juni Ba the man that you are... He does such a fantastic job capturing the feel of what Damian's notebook would look like... UGH it's so cute. Juni Ba you are everything please DC hire Juni Ba for all of your projects. I know he's only really done Damian for DC so far and he's really good at Damian stuff but. I want to see him on maybe a Dick or Duke book so bad. I don't know how his style would mesh with either character, but I think it would work especially well for Dick (maybe a comic similar to The Boy Wonder with a focus on relationships, but maybe it follows Dick and his relationships with Bruce, Barbara, Tim, Jason, and Damian? One issue for each like TBW, but it starts with him being trained by Bruce, then working with Babs, then training Tim, fighting Jason [either NW:BiB or BftC], and training Damian? Ugh it's such a long shot, and it isn't like I just want TBW: Part Two, Dick Grayson Edition, but... hhh Juni Ba is just so good at writing and drawing...), and I'm mostly just biased about the Duke book idea. Of course I want one of my favorite artists and writers writing or drawing my favorite character LOL. Anyways I got off track, the book that I just read. It was good! I was very fond of Thomas Wayne's journal I thought that was a great touch. Damian you make me so sad T_T