Mike Benson writes this little detective story in which Batman is trying to figure out who's killing these 'Johns' around town. After a few of them had happened, last issue, Batman starts to make the connection to this club in town. From there he narrows it down to one girl . . Sophia. She's a girl who works there and is using the influential clients that she's got available to her advantage. It's kind of a multi-layered story, but . . also kind of obvious right from the beginning. Dick sets himself up as one of Sophia's 'Johns' to see if the killer will make his move. And he does. It's a guy named Sal. But it turns out he's not the killer. He follows Sophia home, and maybe other girls too . . I don't know . . but he acts like he's just robbing people in a precarious position. He slaps Sophia around a bit, and then gets the guys personal info out of his wallet. That's when the real payoff comes because he starts to black-mail them. Sophia is in on it, but . . they didn't kill anyone. Then there's Sophia's ex-boyfriend. He's a roid-head and very jealous over Sophia's job and the men she takes homes. He's made a few threats, but . .he hasn't killed anyone either. It turns out it's Sophia's door-man. Anthony feels some kind of connection to this girl that he sees every day, and in his mind he's probably trying to protect her. Or, stop these guys from defiling this woman whom he sees as a nice girl. Like I said, it was kind of obvious, but . . it was a decent story. It revolved around Batman, but I think the important thing to take away from this was Commissioner Gordon's way of handling these various characters. In fact at the end he buys Sophia a train ticket out of town so that she can start a new life. It was ok. I enjoyed Dustin Nguyen's pencils. It just wasn't all that thrilling. In the back-up, Kate is getting ready to start her case against Two-Face, for the murder of the former DA. But she's finding out that Harvey has pretty much everyone in his pocket. So, she's out on the streets as ManHunter trying to get some information on him. The Huntress shows up and offers her assistance also. But she's definitely got an uphill battle here. This story is brought to us by Marc Andreyko and Jeremy Haun. Overall, I enjoyed the book. But honestly, this one was a bit of a let-down for me after previous issues. Especially considering how 'dark' and twisted his stories were on Moon Knight. Hopefully things will get back on track next time. We'll see.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Batman: Streets of Gotham #9 - DC
Mike Benson writes this little detective story in which Batman is trying to figure out who's killing these 'Johns' around town. After a few of them had happened, last issue, Batman starts to make the connection to this club in town. From there he narrows it down to one girl . . Sophia. She's a girl who works there and is using the influential clients that she's got available to her advantage. It's kind of a multi-layered story, but . . also kind of obvious right from the beginning. Dick sets himself up as one of Sophia's 'Johns' to see if the killer will make his move. And he does. It's a guy named Sal. But it turns out he's not the killer. He follows Sophia home, and maybe other girls too . . I don't know . . but he acts like he's just robbing people in a precarious position. He slaps Sophia around a bit, and then gets the guys personal info out of his wallet. That's when the real payoff comes because he starts to black-mail them. Sophia is in on it, but . . they didn't kill anyone. Then there's Sophia's ex-boyfriend. He's a roid-head and very jealous over Sophia's job and the men she takes homes. He's made a few threats, but . .he hasn't killed anyone either. It turns out it's Sophia's door-man. Anthony feels some kind of connection to this girl that he sees every day, and in his mind he's probably trying to protect her. Or, stop these guys from defiling this woman whom he sees as a nice girl. Like I said, it was kind of obvious, but . . it was a decent story. It revolved around Batman, but I think the important thing to take away from this was Commissioner Gordon's way of handling these various characters. In fact at the end he buys Sophia a train ticket out of town so that she can start a new life. It was ok. I enjoyed Dustin Nguyen's pencils. It just wasn't all that thrilling. In the back-up, Kate is getting ready to start her case against Two-Face, for the murder of the former DA. But she's finding out that Harvey has pretty much everyone in his pocket. So, she's out on the streets as ManHunter trying to get some information on him. The Huntress shows up and offers her assistance also. But she's definitely got an uphill battle here. This story is brought to us by Marc Andreyko and Jeremy Haun. Overall, I enjoyed the book. But honestly, this one was a bit of a let-down for me after previous issues. Especially considering how 'dark' and twisted his stories were on Moon Knight. Hopefully things will get back on track next time. We'll see.
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