![]() He’s got a softer rounder style than regular series artist Dan Mora but it was really good for this story. The art by Travis Moore was very good too. It was a very fun story and when Batman and Superman eventually show up they have fun in the circus too. It was really cool it see Robin in his element like this. We see him join a circus and do a trapeze act. First we have a one issue story that details what happened with Robin after being trapped in the past during the last arc. We even get a brief appearance of Ratcatcher in a horror-like sequence with his army of rats.Īfter a great first arc, Mark Waid and Dan Mora up their game with the Boy Thunder arc, which has fun action, touching interactions among the heroes, and a compelling mystery that is going to grow as World’s Finest continues its amazing run. Balancing the outlandish set-pieces and the small human interactions, Mora also balances the tenderness of the heroes and the devilish expressions of the villains, with his Joker being a highlight. One of the best artists working today, Dan Mora brings such a slick, modern aesthetic to the Silver Age-styled storytelling of this comic, which revels in showing the iconic and the obscured from DC’s history, such as the Batcopter from the 1966 Batman film. Waid is never cynical, but the arc does get dark, from the rage that drives the Boy Thunder, to the antics from the two villains that does include torture. As with the previous volume, Waid isn’t interested in domesticising the superheroes, in terms of showing their personal lives, and find the human interactions within the costumed adventuring, whether it is the youthful nature of the Teen Titans, or a brief partnership between Supes and the Flash super-speeding through the ocean. While the mystery of the Boy Thunder drives this narrative, there are many human moments along the way, showing what a tragic character David is and how many of the costumed heroes are there to help him out, even including Batman who helps him with how to manage his powers. With light-based powers under Earth's sun, David tries to be a hero coded as the Boy Thunder, whilst the dastardly pairing of the Key and the Joker have plans for Gotham. Introduced through an homage to the origin sequence from All-Star, David Sikela is from a parallel Earth which got blown up and whose ship is sent to Prime-Earth where he is discovered by Superman, Batman and Robin. And thus, the next big arc of this title is about the sidekick that Supes had, in the shape of the Boy Thunder. There is a scene in the seminal Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely comic All-Star Superman, in which Lois asked Superman if he ever considered a sidekick, and his response that no one would keep up with him. Once again, Waid never feels cynical towards these larger-than-life characters and just embrace the fun side. However, the most spectacular sequence that best showcases Moore’s art (no, it’s not Superman’s nipples on display), is a two-pager where Batman and Robin doing a trapeze act for the audience. With Travis Moore stepping into art duties just for this issue, he draws his characters with very expressive faces and that includes the animals within the circle. ![]() Serving as a nice epilogue to the previous arc, it is a wonderful character-focuses issue where Dick Grayson is remembering what his life was before the superhero life, and he has able to move from his tragedy through the friends he made along the way. Finding himself in a circus where two murders have occurred, Robin goes into detective mode, whilst his friends back in the present day are trying to track down where the Boy Wonder has gone. Picking up where the initial arc capped off – following the battle with the Devil Nezha – we see Robin back in time, specifically Corto Maltese in 1892. Not having to worry about the continuity of any current title featuring Batman and Superman, writer Mark Waid and artist Dan Mora put a modern spin on their Silver Age adventures where they are Super Friends and take full advantage of the back catalogue of DC’s history, with some surprises along the way. With the number of Batman and Superman comics that DC has been publishing, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest is the most fun comic that brings out the best of the publisher’s two most iconic superheroes.
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