Detective Comics #974

Detective Comics (2016) (Single Issues)

by James Tynion IV, Jesús Merino (Illustrator), Guillem March (Illustrator)

“KNIGHT’S FALL”! Can Tim Drake piece his dreams back together after Batwoman’s fateful decision, or will the Gotham Knights go their separate ways?

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Comics Manga, Comic Book

32 pages, Paperback

Published February 14, 2018

About the author

Prior to his first professional work, Tynion was a student of Scott Snyder's at Sarah Lawrence College. A few years later, he worked as for Vertigo as Fables editor Shelly Bond's intern. In late 2011, with DC deciding to give Batman (written by Snyder) a back up feature, Tynion was brought in by request of Snyder to script the back ups he had plotted. Tynion would later do the same with the Batman Annual #1, which was also co-plotted by Snyder. Beginning in September 2012, with DC's 0 issue month for the New 52, Tynion will be writing Talon, with art by Guillem March. In early 2013 it was announced that he'd take over writing duties for Red Hood and the Outlaws in April.

Tynion is also currently one of the writers in a rotating team in the weekly Batman Eternal series.

Reviews

[Siona Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great issue, great ending to the arc, and great set up for this title going further. This is one of the best DC Rebirth (are we still calling it that?) titles coming out right now. Cassandra was phenomenal in this issue.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

So heart-wrenching that I had to read it twice. And I have the next issue ready to go. I just decided this one was good enough to double-dip.

A lot of things kind of came to a head in this issue. The status quo has changed.

[Dr Rashmit Mishra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of the after math of the FALL OF BATMEN story line , it was decent .

We see some battle lines being drawn , we see Tim's and Cass's emotional fall and Yeah I hate Batwoman more now . Take that symbol away , she ain't no Bat . Booooooo

[Derek Neveu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Predictable strife, great looking book though!

[Higor Hebert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tim do amanhã estava certo

[Stacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a big nerd for Tim Drake, so any issue where there's a big Tim scene's going to get extra love from me (full disclosure). The art in here's okay. There's a lot of drama happening and I feel we lost some of that sense that the earlier issues had, where a character says something logical that might kill tension but it's the humane/moral way to go. Previously, we had Batwoman calling out Bruce on being a better team player. Here, it is clearly the point to create tension even if the characters have to be rash to get there. I'm liking that less, but if that's what it takes to get us to the next plot-point, I trust the next climax will make it worthwhile.

(I'm experimenting with a personal checklist in order to understand what I look for in the genre. This got 30.5/50)

[Marisa Carpico · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gotta admire how Tynion continually takes risks. I will say, a lot of this mirrors things that happened in both Marvel's Civil War II event and literal conversations on Arrow. I'm not gonna hold that against him, though, because there really are only so many narratives in superhero comics.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

We get the aftermath of Clayface's fall. Batman and Tim's reactions to Batwoman's actions are very emotionally fueled and believable.