One Shot for the week of February 29th
By Troy-Jeffrey Allen
March 4, 2012 - 21:27
DC Comics
Writer(s): Adam Beechen, Derek Fridolfs, and Dustin Nguyen
Penciller(s): Norm Breyfogle and Dustin Nguyen
Inker(s): Derek Fridolfs
Colourist(s): Andrew Elder and Randy Mayor
Letterer(s): Saida TemoFONTe (great letterer last name)
Cover Artist(s): Dustin Nguyen
$3.99 US
One Shot for the week of February 29th
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Every week, I pick up a handful of #1s from my local comic book store and review them in a desperate attempt to reclaim my loose lost love…the funny book. This is One Shot.
Aaaaand I’m back. Miss me? No? Don’t you want to know why I was gone? No? Well. Damn.
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DC Comics
$3.99
The one thing about DC Comics that I could never get behind is all the friggin’ legacy characters. Apparently it’s one of the main ingredients that separates Marvel from DC (Marvel has a few legacy characters but --- well, they get cancelled…alot). That being said, while the very idea of a Batman from the future being sensei-ed by Bruce Wayne makes this Marvel zombie chortle with contempt, DC Comics has done a good thing with this Batman Beyond #1.
First of all, it’s $3.99 with 50 pages of original material (Okay…and a three page Horn of Africa advertisements). In this era of drawing-the line-at-$2.99-unless-you-check-back-with-us-in-a-few-months, it’s nice to see a price bump justified by more action and adventure.
Secondly and most importantly, it’s not a bad story. Batman Beyond/Terry McGinnis trades blows and quips with the latest “Joker Gang.” Meanwhile. Bruce Wayne pieces together why all these novelty villain acts are claiming Neo-Gotham as their new turf. Er…Bruce, I’m no Dark Knight Detective, but maybe you should just check in on the shadowy figure that’s standing slightly off-panel in every shot. Just sayin’…
If there is one criticism I can weigh against Batman Beyond Unlimited #1
it would be the fact that it doesn’t really feel like a jump on point. This is doubly
bad when you consider the fact that it is a reprint of an ongoing digital
comics series meant to bring in new readership. Truth be told, if I hadn’t
wasted my college studies watching the WB in the early 2000s, I’d probably be
scratching my head wondering why the hell Bruce Wayne is a cripple, Batman has
been replaced by Peter Parker, and the Justice League Unlimited looks…rather
limited.
Stupid legacy characters.
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