REVIEW: All Star Batman #10 is a Knockout
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After a heavy helping of All Star Batman, I’ve come to know that it’s a comic book where we see a rougher Batman and reintroduction of his well known villains. It’s a surprise that All Star Batman #10 changes that formula up a bit. For this issue, Scott Snyder‘s villain choice is Hush. His reintroduction […]
After a heavy helping of All Star Batman, I’ve come to know that it’s a comic book where we see a rougher Batman and reintroduction of his well known villains. It’s a surprise that All Star Batman #10 changes that formula up a bit.
For this issue, Scott Snyder‘s villain choice is Hush. His reintroduction is quick and shows all of his necessary details that almost summarizes how Jeph Loeb introduced this character years ago. The thing I’m surprised about is how Hush isn’t really the main attraction of this issue despite his importance in the plot, the real focus is on Alfred and it’s quite interesting as I rarely see Alfred in Batman stories stepping out of his usual role as Bruce Wayne’s butler. For the backup story done by Rafael Albuquerque and Rafael Scavone, Batman infiltrates Russia after knocking out someone called Knockout. It’s simple and fits the comic’s vibe but it was almost uninteresting maybe due to how I wasn’t too familiar with the villain.
The art truly shines in action oriented scenes thanks to Rafael Albuquerque. You really get a sense of “the chase” that it also fits Snyder’s rough Batman. The colors by Jordie Bellaire were pretty much what’s on the cover: a majority of limited color palettes that he works with delivers a lot in a page. While the backup story wasn’t much of a point of interest for me, its’ art done by Sebastian Fiumara and Trish Mulvihill delivered. Fiumara’s attention to fighting stood out while Mulvihill’s color palettes that mostly consisted of the shade of red truly gave the story quite a punch and also matched the art presented by Albuquerque and Bellaire in the main story.
All Star Batman #10 is a slight change up in the comic’s formula thanks to Snyder’s choice of focusing on Alfred instead of the usual heavy villain reintroduction in past issues. This decision makes for a heavily intriguing on what’s to come in the next issues. While the new backup story here doesn’t quite pickup, the interest is still around enough to warrant some anticipation for the next issue.