{"id":253,"date":"2006-08-11T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/bat-brilliance\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T16:57:18","slug":"bat-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Bat-Brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not picking up Paul Dini&#8217;s current run of Detective Comics, where he&#8217;s basically cranking out tight-ass little done-in-ones every month, you may kick yourself now. This is shaping up to be a GREAT run.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow Dini mixes a decidedly Animated Series-inspired take on the character and Gotham with a more tense, adult approach&#8211;and I&#8217;m not just saying that because a scene in the last issue featured an S&#038;M club. These aren&#8217;t kids stories, or really for kids, but they get to the essence of Batman just as the Animated Series did.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even awesome little touches, like Batman offering a guy he&#8217;s just interrogated a band-aid for the cut on his face. NICE, Dini. NICE.<\/p>\n<p>Will it be one of the all-time great Bat-runs? Way too early to say. I will say, however, that it&#8217;s really fucking great, and the first decade of the aughts has yet to produce its great Bat-run, so it&#8217;s already a contender in my book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not picking up Paul Dini&#8217;s current run of Detective Comics, where he&#8217;s basically cranking out tight-ass little done-in-ones every month, you may kick yourself now. This is shaping up to be a GREAT run. Somehow Dini mixes a decidedly Animated Series-inspired take on the character and Gotham with a more tense, adult approach&#8211;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}