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COMIC BOOK RESOURCES reviews DETECTIVE COMICS #856
August 31, 2009
Just to raise a point only to dismiss it: "The Question" co-feature is lesser Greg Rucka, lesser Cully Hamner, and not worth your time. It's existence in this issue doesn't affect the way I rated "Detective Comics" #856, so as far as I'm concerned, this is a $3.99 comic starring Batwoman, written by Greg Rucka and drawn by J. H. Williams III.
And it's very good.
It's the art, of course, that makes this comic special. In another, less-amazing, artist's hands, "Detective Comics" #856 would probably be a good little costumed action/drama comic. It might be even less, if Rucka's previous work with the Kate Kane Batwoman ("52," "Five Books of Blood") is any indication. Here, though, Williams III has imbued such life into the character -- such life into her world -- that Rucka's pulpish plot seems even more sophisticated than it probably is.
