Batman #707 – Review

By: Tony Daniel (writer and penciller), Tony Daniel, Sandu Florea and Ryan Winn (inkers), Ian Hannin (colors)

The Story: Batman and I-Ching race against time to get to the Mask of the Beholder before Sensei gets there. Too late!

What’s Good: I enjoy Tony Daniel’s Gotham art. He draws a powerful Batman (check him fighting on the pier sans cape), dynamic action (like Sensei’s kick in the archives), and general weirdness (look at the spiritual madness coming out of Sensei when he gets his mitts on the beholder). The inks team made Gotham dark and brooding, from the bottom of a dirty river, to the hidden hideaway of the Riddler’s new employer. And Hannin’s colors were awesome in the cloudy effects of battle and the mystical forces coming out of the beholder. And speaking of the Riddler (and his twisted daughter Enigma), they look awesome. Riddler is genuinely ugly, with greasy, dirty hair, a textured, wrinkled face and some whacked out facial expressions. I also enjoyed the Chinese-motifs in the masks of Sensei henchmen. Très cool.