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Batman/Superman #1 — Joshua Williamson, Writer; David Marquez, Artist; Alejandro Sanchez, Colorist
Ratings: Ray — 8.5/10
Corrina: The Commish-Who-Laughs
Ray: The “Team-Up” comic has always been an appealing prospect for DC — after all, you combine the fandoms of two top characters into one book — but it’s also been a puzzle to solve story-wise. While the book stars the top characters, it doesn’t quite “own” either of them because the big events happen in their own book. This new take on Batman/Superman, the third title in the 2000s to bear some version of that name, looks to subvert that problem by grounding the book’s events firmly in the events of the “Year of the Villain” branding. Batman/Superman #1 starts out very effectively with a horror-focused opening that plays to Williamson’s creator-owned strengths, as Superman is called in to help Batman in a crisis in space — only to fall into a horrific trap as we realize that this was never our Batman and Superman we were watching. There’s a great sense of dread here in David Marquez’s art that nicely sets this apart from Williamson’s sunnier, more classically heroic work on Flash.
The real story on the main world begins with Batman and Superman both on the trail of…
