NEWS
NEWSARAMA's Best Shots team reviews DETECTIVE COMICS #858 twice
November 3, 2009
Ready... and...
Go.
After hitting the ground running for their first arc, with their second arc "Go," Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III take a bit of a breather in this issue of Detective Comics. But even while slowing things down to give Kate Kane an in-depth origin story, they still manage to find ways to push themselves artistically.
In terms of writing, this is probably some of the more naturalistic dialogue I've seen out of Greg Rucka, who depicts young Kate with a natural precociousness shared by her sister, Beth. It sets up a nice, fairly stable life for the future vigilante, so that when it inevitiably shatters, it is brutal and to the point. Additionally, Rucka does a fine job weaving the present day -- with Kate wrestling with the fallout of her first nemesis, Alice -- and transitioning it to the past. It may be obvious what'll happen next, but Rucka very well could surprise us.
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