Duck your head and cover your galoshes! Batman, The Audio Adventures seven-part miniseries continues. If you recall from issue one, Batman is hunting down ninja assassins in Gotham. Robin has been kidnapped! In issue #4, it’s again all underground, mysterious and deadly!
Writer Dennis McNicholas treats us to a lighter flavour of Batman story in this followup to last season’s Batman podcast: the dialogue is marinated in exaggerated rantings, the scenes are dramatic yet simplified in scope. keeps things lively and experimental in this many-charactered plot. Bad guys keep popping out of the ooze! There’s Hugo the mad doctor, Killer Croc, The Penguin, and more.
In contrast to the audio podcast, of course, a comic book story involves visuals. Pencillers Anthony Marques and J. Bone show us big thick drawing lines, large shapes with streamlined silhouettes, and playful poses full of easy-to-follow gestures. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that! J. Bone inks the final art, and Dave Stewart applies big swaths of flat colour with minimal gradation. Letters by Ferran Delgado are expressive and clear, emulating a hand-drawn look.
It’s dramatic, in-your-face, and direct, this title, but with lots of subplots and colourful characters to keep us all entertained.
DC Comics, Batman The Audio Adventures #4 (of 7), $3.99 for 21 pages of content. Teen
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