Alright guys, here comes some review (would have been earlier but Ive been busy with work and with drinking)
Daytripper #7: Fantastic work as always, and this still makes me sad every time I read it. No way are you going to guess exactly how this ends.
Unwritten #14: Everything is still pushing toward an enormous confrontation. Some crazy developments and I cant wait to see what happens when this all blows up in their faces.
SHIELD #2: The art is amazing, no doubt about that, my problem is with the story, or lack there of. Hickman isnt exactly generous about plot points in this, and tries to keep a lot of whats going on shrouded in mystery. This may be a title better suited to trade.
JL:GL #3: Im reading this because of a challenge I have with Earl. Its fairly standard superhero stuff but it is nice to see Jaime and Booster and their voices seem about right. Gave this to a none comic reading friend and he loved it even without having read earlier issues, so I guess there is that.
Batman #700: This is a bit of a tricky title to review. Straight off the bat (haha) I'll say that this wasnt as good as I hoped it was, but it was exactly bad. It had a plot that made me want to go back and read it a few more times to see if I understood the mystery. It also had delicious Frank Quietly art, so I cant really complain.
My biggest problem was the other artists involved. Although I liked Tony Daniel on RIP his work in that was much darker than this. Entirely too many colourful costumes to really make it work (check out the last page of his part which is mostly black and red, looks heaps better).
I'm not a Kubert fan so I didnt really take to his Damian section, so that could just be personal taste.
Scott Kolins finished off Quietly's story and its incredibly jarring how different their styles are.
Lastly, Finch had 4 spotlight pages on the various Batmen of the future, and his style was only really suited to the DKR page.
Also, the characterization of the Joker in the first part is just off, no otherway about it.
So all in all, its a very good Batman issue, just maybe not the masterpiece you'd expect an anniversary issue by Morrison to be.
PICK OF THE WEEK: Daytripper #7. As much as I loved the Quietly pages in Batman#700 the guys on Daytripper are consistently putting out quality issues that can be read on their own, pack emotional punch, have amazing art and are coming out on time. More like this please
STUFF FROM LAST WEEK
Nemesis: The Impostors #4: What has been a good mini series end of a cliffhanger with no big explanation for what was happening, bad form DC comics, very bad form.
Demo v2 #5: Nice emotional black and white indie comic that involves minor use of superpowers. Some clever ideas, excellent characterization. This is everything you'd expect it to be. And thats good
Bulletproof Coffin #1: The concept in this is probably more entertaining than the execution, but its a 6 issue mini series so this could still do some interesting stuff. Recommendation... find a summary of #1 and then get #2.