BATMAN FIRST KNIGHT #1: DAN JURGENS TAKES BATMAN BACK TO HIS ROOTS 

Hey, nice review! I agree with you in regards to Rabbi Cohen's reaction to seeing Batman in the alley, generally speaking. However, that can be easily enough explained by remembering that all anyone did in those days is listen to the radio, which was on most of the time. So, reports of a man in what appears to be a giant bat suit breaking up crime sprees across Gotham during the previous couple of weeks would've been the talk of the town and Rabbi Cohen could've simply thought to himself off panel, "Omg, this must be that man in the bat suit the radio news has been reporting about recently.", with no need to actually show that reaction. While I have your ear, I also want to clarify the process of putting realistic backgrounds into the comic. What Byrne used to do was take a photo from a magazine, photocopy it so it was black and white, then cut and paste that photocopy into his panel. What Perkins does is find photographic reference online and then hand draws it onto each panel. It's FAR MORE time consuming that the older way of photocopying photos, which Kirby and other artists did even before Byrne did it. It's especially more laborious and time consuming because the exact images Perkins needs aren't usually available, in terms of the angle/perspective the photos were taken, so Perkins usually has to interpret the photos and redraw them in the perspective he wants to lay out his panels in. Other times, he needs to take pieces of various photos and composite them together for a larger scene. Photo ref is a necessary tool, but HOW the artist INTERPRETS it is the important thing. By the way, for any budding artists out there, you SHOULD use photo reference to draw things like buildings, cars, etc. It's the only way they will look realistic, unlike the cheap and cheesy rectangles and squares most artists used to draw buildings in comics before the 1990's. In fact, even Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski will tell you to use photo ref to draw your pages if you want o get good enough to break in.

Great review,will u do one for Batman Dylan dog?