Review: Batman #711

3 out of 5

    Overall, Tony Daniel's run in Batman has be an interesting and fun affair. Daniel has managed to incorporate the past into his stories, such as the Resurection of Ra's Al Ghul and The Long Halloween, and transitions them into fun new stories. With that being said, Batman #711 is not without it's flaws.
    In Batman #711, Gilda Dent and Mario Falcone are back in Gotham, and they are after Harvey Dent aka Two Face. In the last issue, they acually managed to capture and shot Two Face, but suprise, one of Batman's most famous villians did not die and now he is out for revenge. Together with the Riddler, Two Face begins to build an army to take on the Falcone Family. Now you notice that I said nothing about Batman. This is because he is only in about two pages of his own book, where he basically just walks around trying to piece together what is going on, and talk some sense into Catgirl, my least favorite character.
    Like I said earlier, I like the fact that Daniel is incorporating the past into his stories, but that really doesn't help if the said story sucks. Two Face losing his coin has been done before, and Two Face fighting the mafia has been done before. Everthing in this book can be read in another, better book. On top of that, some of the characters, like Gilda Dent and Mario Falcone are horrible stereotypes. Overall, the script was just not great, which is a shame because rest of Daniel's Batman run has been fantastic.
    Steve Scott shows up as the guest artist of this issue. He did a pretty decent job. The art is not super amazing, but it is not bad enough to bash in any way. It is just serviceable, which is fine. The emotions of the characters, especially Two Face, were easily picked up by the reader, and you got to see the events happen. That is about it.
    Overall, this issue was below Daniel's normal standard. Hopefully, Daniel can push the story forward and get back in his groove with the next issue.