Thursday, December 23, 2010

Retro-Review: Daredevil/Batman #1(1997)

Review: This issue gets started with Two-Face stealing some experimental brain drugs from Wayne Enterprises, which naturally leads to Batman investigating. Batman's investigation leads him to New York, where it seems that Two-Face has hooked up with Mr. Hyde, with the two villains stealing a bunch of technological items. Batman winds up running into Daredevil, who was investigating the New York side of the crime wave. The two heroes don't hit it off, getting into the obligatory “super-heroes meet, have a misunderstanding, fight, and then make up” thing, although DD and Bats don't bother with the “make up” part, mainly because DD is hoping that Two-Face could be saved, since they had met in college. Bats doesn't believe Harvey Dent is there anymore, only Two-Face, while DD feels the opposite to be true. The two heroes split up, but wind up back together again after coming across a body left behind by Two-Face and Hyde. After some more searching, the heroes manage to track down the villains and discover that Two-Face was in the process of betraying Hyde with the stolen brain drugs from Wayne Enterprises. DD and Bats inform Hyde of Two-Face's duplicity(ha!), which leads to Hyde going on a rampage and attacking everybody. Unfortunately, this was a part of Two-Face's plan, as an angry Hyde winds up making the drugs speed up the process of turning Hyde's brain into a living computer... Yeah, that's the big plan here... Batman goes after the rampaging Hyde, while DD talks Two-Face into giving up the control that would knock Hyde unconscious by referencing their past in Law School. With that, DD KO's Hyde and Bats collects Two-Face to take him back to Gotham. The epilogue here involves Matt Murdoch(DD's alter ego)and his law partner, Foggy Nelson, heading to Gotham to attend a Wayne Foundation charity event. Matt and Bruce Wayne(Batman's alter ego)meet up and seem to recognize each other, and this issue end with Bruce telling Matt to never think about coming back to Gotham again.

Thoughts: Hmm... So far this was the worst of the Marvel/DC x-overs I've read this week. I never really got the story(why the hell was Two-Face trying to turn Hyde's brain into a computer?!), and Batman was really playing the role of jackass here... I mean I get that he's unlikable and all, but you'd think DD pissed in his coffee or something. I found myself feeling bad for DD, and the ending just hammered home Batman's nasty attitude throughout this comic after he flat out tells DD not to come back to Gotham... Jeez Bats, chill out! Anyway, there were some good moments here, and I enjoyed the interactions between lawyers Two-Face and DD. Unfortunately, that was about the only thing I enjoyed here...

Score: 5 out of 10.Batman: a jerk in any comic book company.

20 comments:

  1. It sucks this wasn't as good as the other issue, and Batman being a jerk to DD seems kinds odd, but hey, he is Batman. The writing seems kinda lame though, especially on the page you posted. Who throws "End?" on a sentence? Also... wouldn't it have been better if Matt said "I wouldn't Dare..." instead of "Are you daring me?" with a creepy smile.

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  2. Yeah, the thing with Bats being a jerk here was that he was going WAAAY over the top with his jerktitude! I mean he's always a jerk when somebody new tries to work out of Gotham("It's MY city!!!"), but man, he was taking it too far! DD DID have some info that Bats could have used, and to be honest, if they would have worked together, instead of having their pissing contest, they probably could have saved a bunch of people's lives... You'd have thought Bats would have realized that and put the hostility on the back burner here!

    As for the writing, yeah. Out of all the Marvel/DC x-overs I read, I liked this one the least, so that should tell you something right there!

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  3. Oh Bruce, only you could be stern and an asshole to a fellow street level superhero that happens to be blind.

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  4. Leave it to the Batman... Being an ass to the disabled... :P

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  5. Right? What's next. Is he gonna hit an elderly woman with his Batmobile or something? :D

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  6. That sounds vaguely familiar... But why??? Meh, anyway, if that did happen, to Batman that is, I wouldn't exactly call him an ass... :P

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  7. Haha, yeah. If it was Batman he wouldn't be an ass, cause he's done so much good. But anyone else, oh they'd be a braying Jackass! :D Lol

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  8. :D I couldn't resist buddy. You know how us jerks are, both myself AND you!

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  9. Yeah, once we see an opening, it's HARD not to take it! Jerk! :P

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  10. Haha, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS A JERK!! "You're a good one Hill...but your son... he's a jackass!"

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  11. Taaaaaaaaaaake a salt tablet. While I continue to bounce a soccer ball to taunt you.

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  12. HA!!! That soccer ball STILL has me laughing! I mean WHAT DID IT MEAN?!?!?!? :D

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  13. Lmao, everything about that was so freaking awesome. Almost as Cotton saying "Those are TOJO Whomping sticks!" just because of the absurdity of it.

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  14. Well you know Nightwing carries around those Tojo whomping sticks! Tojo whomping sticks... HA!

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  15. Lmao.. "I can't disable that guy with the gun from here... I gotta throw my Tojo whomping sticks at him!" - Nightwing

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  16. See, I'd much rather he calls them that! :D

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  17. Lol he'd piss off so many people, but he'd gain Cotton as a reader for life!

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  18. HA! And me! I'd also be a reader for life! :P

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