Continuing with the short run of 1990s Batman from my unread comics stack.
Title: Batman
Issue: 555
Date: June, 1998
Publisher: DC Comics
Writer: Doug Moench
Penciller: John Beatty
Inker: Sal Buscema
Colorist: Gregory Wright
Letterer: Todd Klein
Editor: Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Dennis O'Neil
Cover: Kelly Jones, Patrick Martin
We're now into "Aftershock", which continues so directly from "Cataclysm" that one wonders why it needed its own title at all. Gotham is in ruins from the earthquake, and Batman and Robin are attempting to rescue a group of commuters trapped in a subway car in a collapsed tunnel.
Enter... The Ratcatcher. Yeah, not exactly top-tier opposition. And unfortunately, because Ratcatcher is pretty third-string in the Rogues Gallery, the writer felt it necessary to reintroduce him to the reader by means of a clunky infodump in the form of a soliloquy given to an audience of (you guessed it) rats.
In fact, Ratcatcher talks a lot in this story, and he doesn't actually say all that much when he does.
What does work well here is that the story makes very good use of the dangers of the collapsed tunnel, with a bunch of clever threats and twists to complicate the rescue.
And it's nice to see the Batman finally get Ratcatcher to shut up.
Rating: 5/10
Title: BatmanIssue: 555
Date: June, 1998
Publisher: DC Comics
Writer: Doug Moench
Penciller: John Beatty
Inker: Sal Buscema
Colorist: Gregory Wright
Letterer: Todd Klein
Editor: Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Dennis O'Neil
Cover: Kelly Jones, Patrick Martin
We're now into "Aftershock", which continues so directly from "Cataclysm" that one wonders why it needed its own title at all. Gotham is in ruins from the earthquake, and Batman and Robin are attempting to rescue a group of commuters trapped in a subway car in a collapsed tunnel.
Enter... The Ratcatcher. Yeah, not exactly top-tier opposition. And unfortunately, because Ratcatcher is pretty third-string in the Rogues Gallery, the writer felt it necessary to reintroduce him to the reader by means of a clunky infodump in the form of a soliloquy given to an audience of (you guessed it) rats.
In fact, Ratcatcher talks a lot in this story, and he doesn't actually say all that much when he does.
What does work well here is that the story makes very good use of the dangers of the collapsed tunnel, with a bunch of clever threats and twists to complicate the rescue.
And it's nice to see the Batman finally get Ratcatcher to shut up.
Rating: 5/10
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