{"id":465,"date":"2007-06-13T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=465"},"modified":"2007-06-13T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:05:48","slug":"batman-as-the-crow-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/13\/batman-as-the-crow-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: As the Crow Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/batcrow.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: As the Crow Flies\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Judd Winick<\/strong>, <strong>Dustin Nguyen<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Richard Friend<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-914-X<\/p>\n<p>Since he was one of the star villains of the film <strong>Batman Begins<\/strong>, the build-up of the Scarecrow started early, as DC tried to add some narrative credibility to a baddie who is almost as old as the Joker but has been woefully underused until recently \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and mostly in the animation-inspired <strong>Batman Adventures<\/strong> titles at that.<\/p>\n<p>In this most recent saga, collected from<strong> Batman<\/strong> issues #626-630, however, he&#8217;s portrayed as much an ineffectual lick-spittle of the Penguin as a truly evil and demented genius, and ends as little more than a staging device to introduce a monstrous new Female Fear-Foe \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fright\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (sorry, my finger stuck on the Alliterator key).<\/p>\n<p>The art is competent, but the characterisations are wooden, and slow paced doesn&#8217;t mean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moody\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to me. Better luck next time, guys.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2004 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Judd Winick, Dustin Nguyen &amp; Richard Friend (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84023-914-X Since he was one of the star villains of the film Batman Begins, the build-up of the Scarecrow started early, as DC tried to add some narrative credibility to a baddie who is almost as old as the Joker but has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/13\/batman-as-the-crow-flies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman: As the Crow Flies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-7v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}