Steve Orlando, Tom King, Tim Seeley, James Tynion IV, &
Riley Rossmo “Batman: Night of the Monster Men” (DC Comics, 2017)
What we have here is an old fashioned Bat books
crossover. I’m not a big EVENT guy, but
I do have a certain affection for crossovers within a specific book line. Here we
have Batman & the team from Detective comics working together to stop
MONSTERS! IN! GOTHAM!
This has every opportunity to be big pulpy fun. I like how
Rebirth Batman is more of a SUPERhero. There’s room for some silver age crazy
in these books, and introducing GIANT FREAKING MONSTERS is one way to up the
crazy level.
This just doesn’t grab the excitement that it should. Our
heroes are divided into the running around team, the ineffectual team, and team
crowd control. Yawn. It’s like a kaiju
movie without the silly. It just doesn’t work.
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