Oh Dear God No!

Someone tell me this is a joke?

At first glance, I just thought he was returning to the art chores on Batman, working with Judd Winick.

But no: Tony Daniel, the man who made Battle For The Cowl read as even more unnecessary than I had expected, is going to be WRITING & DRAWING BATMAN starting in October.

Winick just got on the book. His previous Batman run was one of the few works from him in recent years that I can't remember anything I didn't like about it. But we're losing him to get Tony Daniel handling the writing and drawing on a book that is meant to be monthly?

Ugh!

UPDATE: Not To Harp, But...

Who's this new Vixen and why did they make her replacement a white woman?

Huh?

That's supposed to be...

Ah, fuck it.


UPDATE: Just to kill the whole "Mari has always been relatively light-skinned" argument:


Of course, there's, also, the currently published Vixen mini-series that displays her as intended:


So why is it that whoever is coloring Howard Porter and Ed Benes seem intent on making her so many shades lighter to practically lose any visual clue of her ethnicity?

Benes Draws Silicone Wonder Woman

Ed Benes gets bagged on a lot lately, for all of his characters looking the same, questionable story-telling, and his propensity for drawing ass and boob shots in so many panels.

It is that last element that we highlight today.


OK...the necessary element might be hard to see at this level of detail. But I think you can see where I'm honing in on here. Right in the foreground...

Either she's got some implants to make her right breast stand up that high or her breasts are so abnormally huge that, even when they settle in due to gravity, they still protrude that much.

Oh yeah...and he still manages to position her for some sort of ass shot. Kudos, Benes...you're a true genius of art...

Mind you, he puts Black Canary in approximately the same position, with only the coloring saving her from being just as exploited.



Hawkgirl has her arm mostly blocking her breasts and her butt isn't quite turned enough to be in play...guess he realized he couldn't play 'em all for titillation. But hey...what's Vixen doing over there? Well, it looks like she's basking in the afterglow...



Most of the men appear to be in more respectful positions. Though, you can debate that with Black Lightning and have to concede a risque pose with John Stewart...

Trying To Maybe Start A New Day...

I'm not making promises that I won't point out her mistakes again...but...

Valerie D'Orazio

I gave up on Benes after he did a Supergirl story for us where he was supposed to draw a granny and she was drawn like a thirty-something hottie with a tank top and a mini-skirt. We sort of looked at that panel, considered asking him to change it, and then just said "f**k it.

That's damn funny.