Detective Comics #835 Discussion/Spoilers, etc.

[shaxper]

I'm very surprised to see that there's no thread on this issue.

I absolutely loved this one. Scarecrow's treatment was brilliant. It's fascinating to finally see one of Batman's villains break his own rules. I do feel that Batman's frustration in response to this was over the top for his character, but the basic sentiment made absolute sense. It's fascinating to explore Batman on this level of powerlessness, no longer able to use his years of files, research, and knowledge to aid him in tracking down one of his best known villains. Though I've been loving the single issue stories in Detective post OYL, I think this could have made a great 5 issue arc. I'll be sad to see it end next issue.

I must say that my absolute favorite thing about Dini's run on Detective is that it's the first time I can think of where the fill-in writers are consistently just as good as the regular.

[jadrax]

Apart from making Scarecrow short, this was a very good story.

Cutting Scarecrow right back to his basic concept actually catapults him up to the ranks of a major villain. It's so much better than when they tried to make him more important using that Scarebeast stuff.

[spidervenom]

I wonder what he said to them all at arkham also do you think he'll get a qward power ring soon.

[jerrymcl89]

I liked this the best of any of the fill-ins since Dini's run started.

[dreyga2000]

Man Scarecrow sure got hardcore quick.... I mean making a person want to commit suicide just by talking to them ... sounds a lot like my wife;)

[DarKye]

I wonder what he said to them all at arkham also do you think he'll get a qward power ring soon.

That is a very good point, I hadn't think of him as part of the Sinestro Corps.

I hope it doesn't happen soon though, as it was said before, the treatment of Scarecrow was really good in this issue, and that was mainly due to his use of fear and not because of a weapon/gas/power.

[stealthwise]

Man Scarecrow sure got hardcore quick.... I mean making a person want to commit suicide just by talking to them ... sounds a lot like my wife;)

Or like Hannibal Lecter.

You know, from Silence of the Lambs.

When this idea was done more than a decade ago.

[Sean Walsh]

I have to say......this run of DETECTIVE has been one of the most impressive runs on a comic book I've seen in a long time.

Usually, fill-ins take a lot away from the usual creative team. But Dini's created a short story mood (with and underlying plot of some sort) with 'TEC and these short fill-ins fit in well, almost perfectly, with what Dini's doing.

Plus this was a great Scarecrow story, something I've not read in a long time.

Kudos. :)

[matt levin]

I so rarely enjoy a Scarecrow appearance.
I sure enjoyed this one! And for the reasons many of you cite above: we've done away with the tricks and gimmicks, and gotten deep into the man's skill and abilities (warped and ghastly as they are). I'm actually glad this's 'just' a two-parter; I'm getting impatient with the stretched out for the reprint stories too many comics have fallen into. There's a skill and intensity to creating a two-parter; heh, at least there should be, and at least, there seems to be in this story.

right now this is the one Batbook I read regularly.

Matt

[HotRod_Tim]

I came into this issue expecting a semi-typical crappy fill-in arc (just cuz that's the way things have been going), but Rozum blew me away. I've never looked at Scarecrow after I do from reading this ish. The guy just straight up pops outta nowhere! That creepy feeling you get when something just isn't right, he just feeds on that. For being a DCU book I thought it was pretty intense. Especially with all the multiple murders/suicides and such.

Nonetheless...excellent issue. Big surprise hit for me, now it's got me biting my nails for the next part.

[matt levin]

If you'd like to read some Rozum work at its finest, try to find copies of "Xombie", a DC/Milestone comic from.... a good while back. Rozum took weirdness to extremes yet did so in a wonderfully compact and integral story.

Matt

[Jamie]

If you'd like to read some Rozum work at its finest, try to find copies of "Xombie", a DC/Milestone comic from.... a good while back. Rozum took weirdness to extremes yet did so in a wonderfully compact and integral story.

Matt

Xombi (no 'E' -- there is completely unrelated series out now called "Xombie") was a great title, with a real early-Vertigo feel to it. His work on that was the reason I picked up this issue of Detective.