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Scans: Smallville Season 11, "Detective"
Smallville Season 11: Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER, art by CHRIS CROSS
Smallville Season 11 is quietly continuing to be one of the best Superman comics available, and with the "Detective" arc it finally has Smallville's Clark meet Bruce Wayne! The results have been a great deal of fun so far, as well as, well, pretty slashy. Not that it takes much with me.
My only complaint with the series is the one that's shaping up to be my bete noir with DC Comics: Nightwing was supposed to be Steph Brown, but at the last instant (actually rather after the last instant) the hammer dropped and Miller and Cross were told to make changes to turn her into Barbara. This was actually the point where I dropped Birds of Prey and Batgirl, even though they're both solid comics: I was just so ungodly sick of seeing someone called Barbara Gordon as Batgirl, someone who didn't even feel like Barbara Gordon to me.
But that aside (and that's not at all Miller's fault), the comic is great stuff. Like how it starts with Bruce noticing whether Superman checks out any women--or men--in the crowd:
"Impressive," eh, Bruce?
However, Superman and Batman clash when Superman decides to try and break Bruno Manheim out of prison. Superman attempts to stop him, and of course they scrap it up for a while. I'll note that Miller's Batman wears face paint on the lower half of his face so his skin doesn't stand out. I agree with the idea intellectually, but it makes Bruce look like a zombie:
Superman compares Bruce and Batman's voices in his memory and figures out that they're the same man:
This stops Superman dead. He leaves Batman and grabs Manheim himself. Bruce goes to his plane to regroup with Nightwing:
"I think he likes me." OH BRUCE. <3 As always seems to be the case, he gets many of the best lines, including one from the next page:
Clark finally convinces Manheim to talk:
When are bats going to learn they can't put trackers on Superman? ;)
Before Batman goes after Chill, he and Superman meet up one more time:
Yay for handshakes!
The story arc isn't over yet, and features some pretty high-quality hurt/comfort and protective Bruce behavior...I'll post the rest when the arc finishes up!
Smallville Season 11 is quietly continuing to be one of the best Superman comics available, and with the "Detective" arc it finally has Smallville's Clark meet Bruce Wayne! The results have been a great deal of fun so far, as well as, well, pretty slashy. Not that it takes much with me.
My only complaint with the series is the one that's shaping up to be my bete noir with DC Comics: Nightwing was supposed to be Steph Brown, but at the last instant (actually rather after the last instant) the hammer dropped and Miller and Cross were told to make changes to turn her into Barbara. This was actually the point where I dropped Birds of Prey and Batgirl, even though they're both solid comics: I was just so ungodly sick of seeing someone called Barbara Gordon as Batgirl, someone who didn't even feel like Barbara Gordon to me.
But that aside (and that's not at all Miller's fault), the comic is great stuff. Like how it starts with Bruce noticing whether Superman checks out any women--or men--in the crowd:
"Impressive," eh, Bruce?
However, Superman and Batman clash when Superman decides to try and break Bruno Manheim out of prison. Superman attempts to stop him, and of course they scrap it up for a while. I'll note that Miller's Batman wears face paint on the lower half of his face so his skin doesn't stand out. I agree with the idea intellectually, but it makes Bruce look like a zombie:
Superman compares Bruce and Batman's voices in his memory and figures out that they're the same man:
This stops Superman dead. He leaves Batman and grabs Manheim himself. Bruce goes to his plane to regroup with Nightwing:
"I think he likes me." OH BRUCE. <3 As always seems to be the case, he gets many of the best lines, including one from the next page:
Clark finally convinces Manheim to talk:
When are bats going to learn they can't put trackers on Superman? ;)
Before Batman goes after Chill, he and Superman meet up one more time:
Yay for handshakes!
The story arc isn't over yet, and features some pretty high-quality hurt/comfort and protective Bruce behavior...I'll post the rest when the arc finishes up!