Detective Comics #1035

Tamaki, Mora, Bellaire, and Bidikar are doing beautiful work. They're showing us that every character they're introducing is there for a reason. And as we learn about their lives, the plot continues to spread out into this vast world they're creating. Read Full Review

Detective Comics has been an easy read thanks to Tamaki's scripts and Mora's art. It's not too late to get on board with what's been a strong and engaging arc so far. Read Full Review

It's very hard for this reviewer to find very much at all to complain about in this issue. So I won't! Detective Comics gives readers a very different option than the Batman book. That variety is very appealing when well done, and two issues in Mariko Tamaki is passing with flying colors! Can't wait for the next issue! Read Full Review

The issue has a very down-to-earth vibe, which made the last page's out-of-nowhere horror swerve all the more surprising. I have no clue where Tamaki is going with that, but so far this is the first Batman run in ages that actually seems concerned with issues like criminal justice and how vigilantes and policing interact. It's a fascinating run. Read Full Review

Dan Mora is one of my favorite artists and this issue is another reason why. The gorgeous details throughout the issue as well as the use of shadows is fantastic. Henry also delivers some beautiful art that brilliantly captures the tone of the story. Read Full Review

This is a comic you should be buying. The creative team understands what it takes to tell a good Batman story, one that isn't an event, but rather one that utilizes character and world building to draw the reader in. There's no shortage of surprises either. All this spills over into the Huntress feature as well. Read Full Review

Both the main story of Detective Comics #1035 and the backup story soar. Writer Mariko Tamaki is off to a fantastic start, and I am so excited to see where the book goes. Read Full Review

Detective Comics #1035 is a memorable new character introduction with a timely theme, supported by a strong and thematically similar back-up story. Mariko Tamaki, Dan Mora and Clayton Cowles achieve their goals with maximum clarity, making this the strongest Bat-book currently on the rack. Read Full Review

Everything about one of DC Comics' oldest series feels fresh and exciting again as the new creative team continues to build upon Batman's new status quo and an even more dangerous Gotham. Every moment of the issue lives up to the book's name as the mysteries deepen, and the colorful and gorgeous, and stylized artwork makes every page a joy to behold. This month's backup provides a rare welcome deeper look into one of the all too often forgotten members of the extended Bat-family of characters. Read Full Review

This is an excellent issue that focuses on detective work, which I always enjoy. What really makes it work, though, is the feel of the atmosphere. The story, the narration, and the imagery of the art (which is AWESOME) all work so well together. Not only do we see a tragedy, but Batman also gets a preview of what life will be like when the Magistrate arrives. There are some strange things that take you out of it for a second, but overall I loved it. And I also thought the Huntress backup was pretty darn good too. I'm looking forward to seeing where they both go.8.8/10 Read Full Review

A promising start, with great art, and some much welcomed gravitas to the Huntress, this is a run that should be ping on your radar. Hopefully the team will be able to deliver. Read Full Review

Overall,Detective Comics#1035 features strong writing and gorgeous pencils across the board. "Middle class" Bruce isn't as hard of an adjustment as it seems on paper under Tamaki's pen and the story is coming along quite nicely. Read Full Review

Detective Comics #1035 develops everything that was hinted at in the previous issue, and sets even more solid foundations to build future tales on. Read Full Review

Honestly, the Huntress story is the reason to read this comic"Henry's art is amazing and Tamaki delivers one of her best superhero outings to date. Read Full Review

While I've criticized certain creative decisions in this review, I do find the story to be entertaining. The writing is mostly okay to good, and it's the artwork that remains the true selling point of the book. In my opinion this is easily the best Batman art since the start of Rebirth, and I hope to see both Mora and Bellaire working together on this book more often. This is a dream team. If you're mainly in it for the art, then get it while it's hot! Read Full Review

Some solid detective work and a compelling enough mystery make for a quality Batman comic book. Read Full Review

cincyfan

May 08, 2021

This was great! I really liked both stories especially the Batman one. I love the new challenges batman is facing and how he is adapting. I also love how the book is steeped in detective work like it is meant to be. I'm very impressed with tamaki's writing so far. The artwork is s wonderful as well I thoroughly enjoyed this one

Psycamorean

Apr 28, 2021

I really enjoyed both stories here. I liked seeing Batman actually act as a detective for once. The art was great. I really like the pacing here. It keeps me entertained while not filling each page to the brim with more subplots, like Batman is doing.

Spacey Medicine

Sep 17, 2021

Ooo cool.

Watchtower022

May 01, 2021

Most of this is for Moras work on this issue. I also really Enjoyed the backup feature on Huntress.

mrDovydas

May 03, 2021

Just as good as the previous issue. Interesting story and ends on a great cliffhanger. Mora's art is as stunning as ever, but that's a given. Really enjoyed the backup, it went dark really fast, and I cannot wait for more of this.

EDiakota

May 07, 2021

" I put Sam in what i hoped was a safe place, if such a thing exists in Gotham these days." - HUNTRESS

Comics Code Authorities

May 08, 2021

A pretty good issue. So far I'm impressed with Tamaki's work. I was a little disappointed that there was no encounter yet between Batman and Mr. Worth, like the well done cover, but it was still all-in-all, a good issue. He seems to be a man not used to getting things a way other than his own. which will make him all the more dangerous. I still don't know whether to consider him a villain or not, but he has an interesting persona I look forward to exploring. It looks like Detective is going to remain the better of the 2 main Batman books. I'm glad it's the one to soon go back to being Bi-weekly. I'm looking forward to seeing this storyline develop.

Quirky Genin

Oct 20, 2021

Dan Mora takes to Batman like a fish to water, great backup too.

F.T. Wolf

Apr 27, 2021

Good issue. Not as hard-hitting as #1034, but with more time for character work. Mr. Worth will definetly be a new Batman villian but a different kind I feel. Someone who won't be going around in a mask with a bunch of croneys, who wants Justice, but will throw his money towards the Mayor and his anti-vigilante campaign. The Huntress story was good as well with a good tragedy at its core.

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Merlyn - Apr 27, 2021

So Mr. Worth is basically the Peunguin, fat, ugly and full of money who can control politicians. Why did we need this character again if we already have one of those, Penguin was actually in this very comic.

F.T. Wolf - Apr 27, 2021

The difference lies in that the Penguin is a morally corrupt, a criminal and scumbag, while Mr. Worth is a good man at heart. I don´t think he´ll do something like hire Deadshot (is he even still alive btw?) to take Batman out or anything. More that his grief leads to rage and tunnel vision and throw his money towards an already corrupt system, worsening it. At the very least that's what I hope will happen. Otherwise then yes, he'd be just another Penguin. Just with a moustache.

Merlyn - Apr 28, 2021

No sign of him being a good man at heart so far. If anything, Tamaki has been very focused so far on telling us how rich people are insufferable, so I see no reason why this guy would be an exception. I hope your hopes for the book will be fulfilled.

F.T. Wolf - Apr 28, 2021

We shall see. We shall see.

Bats44121 - Apr 30, 2021

I agree with Merlyn, unfortunately. DC Comics has decided "rich is bad" for the rest of this century. It is the main storyline across a broad spectrum of DC Comics writers and books. The $ on the cover for Mr. Worth was amusingly transparent. But beyond Bruce Wayne, the larger problem is that DC Comics writers are basically losing the idea of how The Batman would actually think altogether. Public sewers. Beyond ridiculous. Bob Kane would have been fired if he wrote that, you know.

uktsr

Apr 27, 2021

I'm not widely read on Batman but really enjoyed this issue. Art is great... Maybe i'm just enjoying taking a break from high-stakes issues but quite enjoy the breathing room in this issue.

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Bats44121 - Apr 30, 2021

Uktsr, since you are not widely read on The Batman, just an FYI, the character wearing The Batman costume is not The Batman character at all. He is a Marvel-style character pretending to be a detective, not unlike the butler Alfred depictions from the mid 20th century. The Batman character is completely different mentally from this character.

uktsr - Apr 30, 2021

What makes you say he is Marvel style?

Bats44121 - May 2, 2021

Uktsr - the closest Marvel character to The Batman was the 20th century Reed Richards of Fantastic Four. But even the brilliant Mr. Fantastic was not as calulating and strategic as The Batman. The Marvel characters (angst-aside) are largely action characters. Classic The Batman is a general in a war against crime. As much as he acts, he also thinks more. I see this Batman character as deductive, but not much of a Thinker. The thinking part is the essential power of The Batman.

Bats44121 - May 2, 2021

Even Adam West in the 1960s camp version Batman TV show was a calculating thinker as the character. It's a key differentiator from other modern costumed characters. Last century, the early characters were "thinkers," because few had "superpowers." The Shadow, Green Hornet, The Batman all come from the same era of costumed heroes using their minds as well as their determination to fight crime.

Batman Jones

Apr 28, 2021

This is just a straight-ahead, very good Batman book. I've loved some of the recent, more daring takes (I'm one of those Tom King lovers), but this is a terrific version of back to basics and it's become my favorite of the current Batbooks. I mean, unless you include Nightwing. If so, Detective is my second favorite. That's still pretty high praise considering how much Batman DC is publishing lately.

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Bats44121 - Apr 30, 2021

Batman Jones -I am glad you are enjoying them. From my own perspective, AT&T's DC Comics recognizes the commercial value of The Batman costume. I only wish they had a better grasp of the actual character.

TSMack

May 08, 2021

Good art & story but nothing special. Along with the prior issue, this is a part of the setup for a hopefully big payoff at the end of this arc.

SenpaifenixJäger

Apr 27, 2021

We finally see something concise. I liked this issue of Detective Comics, it's still very Marvel-like but it's pretty decent. I can't say the same for the backup, the Huntress was totally throwaway ruining this issue. I'd give an 8 if it was just the Batman story.

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torqueflite - Jul 20, 2021

I completely disagree on the Huntress backup story, which explored a particular type of mental illness with great sensitivity while highlighting Huntress's strengthes and flaws.

Merlyn

Apr 27, 2021

In classic Tamaki fashion, both stories are all over the place. I still have a glimmer of hope that the main story can be good but I've read too much Tamaki stories to really believe in it.

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Bats44121 - Apr 30, 2021

I keep searching for the right verb, and I think it is "blunder." Tamaki and a lot of modern DC Comics writers have The Batman "blundering" through the storylines. Making decisions that are obviously inconsistent with the character's only real superpower - HIS MIND. Every costumed character is based on risk, but The Batman is especially calculating in how to best use those risks for his mission.

Merlyn - Apr 30, 2021

Yeah, Batman being smart is a thing of the past, the writers today are just too dumb for the character. Same reason they shy away from writing Riddler, too. The character is too smart for them. I like Riddler and I forgot when was the last time I read a good story with him, maybe King's War of Jokes and Riddles came somewhat close.

Bats44121 - Apr 30, 2021

I agree. The Riddler was great. I really enjoyed being given I puzzle so I can participate in solving the mystery at home.

Mingthemerciless - May 3, 2021

You both nailed the issue. DCs current lot of writers don't have the most basic understanding of Batman...his keen mind. They have him floundering about like a dazed idiot. They also seem to have a problem with his wealth when hes shown hes a great philanthropist and anti corruption.

Mingthemerciless - May 3, 2021

I've always liked the arkham verse take on the riddler as a less brutal jigsaw from the saw films. He doesn't have to be Frank Gorshin. But this plays unti the less than adequate level quality in DCs writing stable for the netbooks. And it's time to steer away from future state.

Mingthemerciless - May 3, 2021

Typo: batbooks

Boudi

May 09, 2021

When I heard that Mariko Tamaki was going to writter this book I was happy. I wondered what a good writter like her would do, I was almost sure it would be something original. Right now we have Batman Vs the Mayor and the GCPD and Batman and zombies. The first one got old years ago and the second one doesn't seem fitting for the Dark Knight. But I guess we have to work with what we can. The art is still great, not that much on the backup but it isn't bad. Speaking of the backup, I must thank Tamaki for not messing things up with Huntress, writters usually make mistakes with her and while this doesn't seem great, it's not bad.

fearUhavemeisenough

Apr 27, 2021

Now if you read the comic !!!! LOL, Redundant I would call this new stage, it is the damn Dark Detective again. It seems that Tamaki is more fun doing the comic of a fat lesbian failed daughter of Stirefire who died of creativity here, however she is doing better than Tynion, Tayler and not to mention King who requires classes to use the flashback.

myconius

Apr 27, 2021

Dan Mora's absolutely beautiful art is wasted on this garbage story.

Bats44121

Apr 30, 2021

Another story about character in a costume dressed like The Batman, who cannot think like The Batman. Why did the "Batcave" exist? (And no reason to believe it still does not.) Because a secretive vigilante crime-fighter like The Batman needed a space he could CONTROL for research and deduction, which was not accessible to pretty much anyone in the world. So 81 years later, The Batman no longer grasps something so obvious? Instead, The Batman has decided to expose himself, his operations, to complete public vulnerability in a series of "mini-caves" throughout the Gotham PUBLIC sewer system? Of course, it would become a trap. The real headline of the story would be "HOW LONG" did Gotham police know that the character dressed in The Batm an's costume was using the sewer system in Gotham? And THIS is why The Batman would never do this. He would already KNOW this was inevitably going to happen, and sooner, not later. The Batman is a lot of things. Not Stupid. This is what happens when DC Comics gives romance and relationship writers like Mariko Tamaki creative control over a character like The Batman. They will try to have a story with structure. But they really still don't understand the IDEA of a character like The Batman, what drives the character, and the boundaries that such a character would naturally create (e.g., the private "cave"). And a lot of justice writers would also have trouble with being credible writers on topics of teen relationships, YA stories, etc., too. What Mariko Tamaki views as intelligence here is "organization." Being organized is not being calculating. A wardrobe designer could create a "Mini-Cave 7A." A calculating detective vigilante would intuitively know the very idea was a ridiculous abandonment of control of operations. Blunder is not bravery. Reckless is not resourceful. A blood hound just chasing clues is not a detective. We literally have animals that do that. It is actually more of an abandonment of logic and rationality to believe that The Batman would leave himself vulnerable to such an obvious and easy public frame-up with a "public sewer-based" "mini-caves," than it is to believe The Batman would end up on the planet Zur-En-Arrh with the Batman Tlano. Multiverses and aliens? Maybe. The Batman being dumb and not thinking like The Batman? Eye roll. People may laugh, but this is still the truth. The Batman will THINK like The Batman, no matter where he is. Even when he was a zombie with just one arm, The Batman still thought like The Batman. And great, Zombies. DC Comics has been big on Zombies for quite a few years. It seems like whenever they don't know what to do with a storyline or a character, especially when it comes to "justice," and God forbid "detective work," you know, like "Detective Comics"? Let's roll out the Zombies. How many Zombie stories does DC want to do? I mean, Black Lanterns, DCeased, Dead Planet, Hope at World's End, A Good Day to Die, Unkillables, the various zombies in Dark Metal, etc.... even making The Batman into a one-armed member of the living dead. Because... well, action, action, action... who has time to "think" if we are facing the "living dead!!" Some "Detective Comics." Let's hope the person wearing The Batman's costume realizes in the future that public sewers, parks, telephone booths, etc., are not good place to stage a vigilante fight against crime. more