Here are a list of the things about the book that worked. Which, as you can imagine probably, is obnoxious. He's not consistent and so I often found myself reading the book in the wrong order. The problem is that Williams often leaves no indicators as to the order in which a reader should approach the panels on these pages. Especially in the segments when Kate Kane is doing her Batwoman thing, there are a number of two-page spreads. Even if they aren't answered in this book, I at least want to see it hinted that the answers are out there.Īnd you know what? As much as I've read people praise Williams' art in Elegy, his heavily designed pages actually work to hinder the reading of the book. If Rucka was going to include a dead twin who quotes Alice, then those are really the only three things that I, as a reader, care about. And amusingly enough, we're never given the slightest indication of a) why she's alive, b) why she's attacking Gotham/Batwoman, or c) why she quotes Through the Looking Glass incessantly. She keeps a poisoned razor blade under her tongue, but you wouldn't know it for how much she talks. So yes, Batwoman's dead sister comes back to haunt her dressed as an adult lolicon version of Alice.
He doesn't quite succeed, but at least he put the effort in. To be fair, Rucka tries really hard to build some emotional resonance into the twin thing, even if he doesn't do anything to make it sound even remotely plausible. And speaks only in quotations from Through the Looking Glass. Kate Kane has an evil twin whom she thought was dead. No seriously, don't read any further if you don't want the mid-book Plot Twist exposed. Okay, so I'm going to talk a little specifically about some things that might count as spoilers (even though its their inclusion in the book at all that spoils Elegy), so be forewarned. It was a frustrating experience made more frustrating by the praise the book had received. It had moments that weren't but those were smothered the sheer weight of the rest of the book's abject silliness. What else is good? Rucka's story (somewhat), as well as the section on. Which I imagine is meant to reflect the mood or era of that portion of the story. The page layouts are sometimes wild and abstracting and sometimes tame and straightforward. Williams III is quite evidently a talented illustrator and designer. But let's put the problems on hold for a moment to focus on what the book gets right. The Rucka-penned adventure comic certainly has some worthwhile moments and Williams' art is varied enough to impress, but the book has several problems that prevent it from being better than it could be. Unfortunately, it never actually gets better than pretty good. One was pretty great and the other was Batwoman: Elegy.
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