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    Detective Comics #858

    Detective Comics » Detective Comics #858 - Twenty Years Ago / Pipeline Chapter One Part Five released by DC Comics on December 1, 2009.

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    3.9 stars

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    Detective Comics #858: 20 Year Itch 0

      I don’t really care if Greg Rucka is accurately portraying a billion dollar lesbian turned crime fighter. Sexuality is something that comics has seldom gotten right. After all let’s not confuse comic books with the next great American novel. What I do like about Batwoman is her motivations. To no surprise, the loss of a parent is the common denominator in all of the bat titles.   Batwoman's origin is slightly different loss but the results are no different. At the end of last iss...

    2 out of 3 found this review helpful.

    Worth it 0

     Talk about a gut wrencher!  Is this comic even a comic anymore, because… quite frankly, Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III have acheived something that all comics should strive for: a tight story that isn’t really that contrived and beautiful artwork that really could be hung up in galleries. The beautiful brush work opens this comic in the past of Kate Kane’s life where it seriously looks like Williams has been reading a ton of independent graphic novels to acheive this beautiful and engrossi...

    3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

    Not Great, but Interesting 1

    This issue is meh'. It didn't blow me away but it was also much better than most of the comics out on the stands these days. Yeah, the art is great but the hype over the amazing art has died away. I'm not blown away anymore. The great art is something that I've come to expect. Therefore, what makes this comic what it is is the story. In this case, the story was mediocre.  It is cool to see Kate's past and see how she and her sister were glued together. They looked alike and even thought alike. T...

    2 out of 3 found this review helpful.

    Go! 1 0

    Wow... I am impressed.  I'm catching up on the Detective Comics, and boy am I glad I picked up this issue.  They twin girls we are introduced to at the beginning are living the typical life of "Army Brats".  They are moving from station to station and have each other for best friends, not untypical considering their situation.   I was intrigued with the family from the get go.  A mother and father who love each other and the twins that can practically read each others minds.   I was a little con...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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