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Scott McDaniel

Autore di Batman: False Faces

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Opere di Scott McDaniel

Batman: False Faces (2008) — Penciller — 136 copie
Nightwing: Year One (2005) — Illustratore — 136 copie
Teen Titans Vol. 05: Life and Death (2006) — Illustratore — 127 copie
Green Arrow: Crawling through the Wreckage (2007) — Illustratore — 76 copie
Batman: Destino oscuro (1990) — Illustratore — 70 copie
Green Arrow: Road to Jericho (2007) — Illustratore — 50 copie
Batman: Two-Face (1995) — Artist — 37 copie
Countdown: Arena (2008) — Illustratore — 32 copie
Le battaglie del secolo n. 12: Devil & Batman (1997) — Illustratore — 27 copie
Static Shock (The New 52) Vol. 1: Supercharged (2012) — Autore; Illustratore — 25 copie
Static Shock #1 (2011) 5 copie
Static Shock #8 (2012) 3 copie
Static Shock #2 (2011) 3 copie
Nomad [1992] #13 (1992) — Illustratore — 3 copie
Static Shock #6 (2012) 2 copie

Opere correlate

Batman: Bruce Wayne - Murderer? (2002) — Illustratore — 179 copie
DC Comics: Zero Year (2014) — Illustratore — 80 copie
Justice League: Cry For Justice (2010) — Illustratore — 62 copie
DC One Million Omnibus (2013) — Illustratore — 41 copie
DC Comics: The New 52 (2011) — Illustratore — 35 copie
Birds of Prey Volume 4: The Cruelest Cut (2014) — Illustratore — 30 copie
Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Vol. 2 (2006) — Illustratore — 30 copie
Daredevil - Fall from Grace (1994) — Illustratore — 28 copie
Birds of Prey Volume 5: Soul Crisis (2015) — Illustratore — 24 copie
Talon (New 52) Vol. 2: The Fall of the Owls (2014) — Illustratore — 21 copie
Forgotten Lives (1997) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Strange Adventures (2010) — Illustratore — 16 copie
Detective Comics # 870 (2010) — Illustratore — 4 copie
Detective Comics # 868 (2010) — Illustratore — 4 copie
Batman and Robin #19 (2009-2011) (2011) — Penciller — 3 copie
Batman and Robin #17 (2009-2011) (2011) — Penciller — 3 copie
Detective Comics # 867 — Illustratore — 3 copie
Detective Comics # 869 (2010) — Illustratore — 3 copie
DC Comics Presents: Batman #1 (2010) — Immagine di copertina — 1 copia

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For a "slug-o-thon" this wasn't bad. I liked the bickering of the Superman's and each version of the hero seemed to have a distinct personality. My biggest problem was how powerful Monarch is. If 3 Superman's, 3 Wonder Woman's, 3 Firestorms, and 3 Green Lanterns, can barely scratch him, I think he's basically the most powerful person in the DC universe. Also not a fan of the art.
 
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ragwaine | 1 altra recensione | Sep 15, 2021 |
Static is great! Fun, fast read. Gooduseof science (better than most other superhero comics).
 
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Vulco1 | 1 altra recensione | Oct 12, 2018 |
They tried so hard to rip off Spider-Man... well, even the writer said it turned out like crap.
 
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morbusiff | 1 altra recensione | Sep 20, 2018 |
Access a version of the below that includes illustrations on my blog.

Nightwing: Year One is the last of the Beatty/Dixon-written "Year One" collaborations, both in my reading order and in terms of publication. This one expands on events only briefly chronicled in Batman: Second Chances to show how Dick Grayson decided to become Nightwing. It opens with Dick coming to Batman's aid in a battle with Clayface, but later than Batman would like, owing to Dick's duties with the Teen Titans.

They argue, and Batman ends up firing Dick-- this doesn't replace the firing depicted in Second Chances, though, as Dick declares he's been fired before, and the timeline of Dick's life in the front of the book includes the Second Chances firing in its events. So apparently much of Nightwing: Year One takes place during the single issue in Second Chances where Dick is fired and Batman first meets Jason Todd; the book as a whole overlaps with Second Chances a lot, as we don't see how Batman meets Jason or selects him as the new Robin, but we do see some of his training. In the meantime, Dick goes back to his old circus and gets a job there and meets Deadman, but the call of crimefighting pulls him, and building on a conversation he had with Superman, he decides to go into action again as his own man: Nightwing.

This book isn't terrible by any means, but it didn't really work for me. There are three main reasons, I think. The first is that Bruce Wayne is just an absolute asshole here. In Second Chances, he "fired" Dick because he was worried for Dick's safety. Here, he does it because Dick can't live up to the impossible standards he imposes on him, refusing to allow Dick defeating criminals with the Teen Titans to excuse him from working with Batman. I feel like you could write these two men drifting apart as they both grow older without making one of them as an arbitrary jerk, but I suppose no one ever hired Chuck Dixon to write a comic book with subtlety in its characterization.

The second issue I have is the book's last few chapters, which do retcon some of Second Chances out of existence specifically, the "ONE YEAR AGO" issue where Dick first meets Jason. Here, Bruce manipulates Dick into participating in Jason's "Gauntlet," his final test to be a full-time Robin, where the two of them are meant to team up to save Alfred from Two-Face (although Two-Face is actually Alfred in disguise). Things go awry, but the two succeed in saving the day without the help of a sedated Batman. It's a fun adventure on its own merits, but it's a weirdly Batman-centric choice for the climax of a volume about Dick Grayson becoming his own man. I'd rather have seen him fighting his own villain(s), far away from the whole Batman clan.

Lastly, there's the art. I've never liked the team of Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens, not since they were Judd Winick's artists on Green Arrow, and I don't like them here. I think it's their way with faces, which just look weird and indistinct to me.

This is a likable book. Dixon is always good at writing action. The appearance of Deadman is fun (if a little pointless), and I liked Dick's talk with Superman. Alfred's final gift to Dick is pretty nice, and makes perfect sense. I wanted to like the flirting between Dick and Barbara more, but I don't think McDaniel and Owens made their body language work, and Barbara felt weirdly subordinate to Batman in his secret plans-- she's usually much more off on her own in my experience. Overall, Nightwing: Year One is fun, but kind of misjudged.

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Stevil2001 | 1 altra recensione | Jul 4, 2016 |

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