Batman in Barcelona: Dragon’s Knight #1

Batman in Barcelona: Dragon’s Knight #1, is a one-shot by Mark Waid and Diego Olmos which takes Bruce Wayne with Batman in tow to Barcelona to find and destroy Killer Croc. As coincidence would have it, he must confront the killer at the festival of St. George. The one-shot while mildly entertaining, is just that, mildly entertaining. The book, which tells a great story does not make any strides for the future. It doesn’t establish any sort of precedent nor lead into any other story arcs. It’s old-fashioned stand-alone storytelling, which Waid does wonderfully, to his credit. Also, the art is decent. The cover by Jim Lee looks, as always, amazing, but the interior art was just okay. It looked great for the first half of the book, solid and detailed, through the middle though, the artist lost steam, and the artwork became half-hearted and lackluster. With this type of minimal effort put forth, I’d give this issue a six out of ten. It could have been better, but ended up just alright. For more fantastic reviews see http://www.comicbookjournal.net/category/reviews/
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