Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Fearsome Fangs Strike Again by Landry Q. Walker

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The second collection of Batman Brave and the Bold books brings another mixture of poor and really solid stories. The book collects Issues 7-12 of the first Batman Brave and the Bold series based on the Cartoon Network comic series.

Issue 7 turns out a really poorly drawn and poorly written story featuring the Doom Patrol. Really, the group deserved much better than it got, particularly the beautiful Rita.

Issue 8 featured a Batman team up involving a bunch yetis and is obscure team of Chinese Super Guardians which produced a so-so story.

Issue 9 is the highlight of the book when Batman meets up with a guy in a very similar costume called Catman who offers to help Batman to take down some of his most dangerous foes. The question is why and who is this mysterious character?

Issue 10 is attack of the Colossal Bat Monster when Dr. Hugo Strange turns Batman into a monster and its up to Green Arrow and the Atom to save the day. Landry Walker decides to give the Atom the power to grow to massive proportions like he was Ant Man from the Marvel universe, but otherwise the story works.

Issue 11 has Batman and Green Arrow battling in the the titular story, "The Fearsome Fang Strike Again." This was an okay story that mainly highlighted Green Arrow's competitiveness.

Finally, we have Issue 12 which puts Batman with Adam Strange in a battle to save the universe. The story is problematic. Batman's made to look like a clown for the benefit of Adam Strange's wife. Then it turns out that they can save the universe by going to an anti-matter storm that coincidentally transforms Strange into a Santa Claus lookalike leading Batman to declare they were creating Christmas as everyone on Earth would have a memory of a guy with a red suit and a beard (and how would they know that?). While it'd be too much to expect an acknowledgment of why Christmas is called Christmas, did they really have to pretend that it was something Santa created with a blue bat elf?

In the end, we're given comics with mixed quality and a smattering of men attacking stupid as a propoganda method, with the Catman story elevating the book to 3 stars.




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