Batman: Odyssey (2011-2012) #5 by Neal Adams
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

The mess of a story finally comes to a bit better focus. The whys are explained by Adams. That’s when I knew how this story could have been written at all well and drawn, instead of this sprawling underground, confusing mess.

Unfortunately, that is not all in this entry. There is still another battle underground that has a wild range of characters all made up by Adams and make no sense. During the battle, characters yell position numbers to each other. Adams never shows there’s been anytime to know where or how the battle was staged. Worse, Adams alters locations from one locale to another and yet there is no defined reason as to why those locations are formed. Adams entire underground has been naturally created. He continuously presents an entire lack of knowledge of geology. His drawing of such I first saw nearly 50 years ago is what grabbed me so strongly into his work. It’s now I learn he’s just tracing photos.

During his video auction last week, he said he may have read one book this past week. This is what I thought as I’ve been painfully getting through this. Adams just doesn’t understand plotting a story. He just comes up with characters, chooses a cheesy, simplistic (dumb) story and throws it all together.

The artwork is still not up to par of the earlier entries, but still better than about 100% of all other comics out there.

Bottom line: i don’t recommend this book. 1 out of ten points.

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