Talia Al-Ghul and her gang of baddies, Leviathan, are up to no good again. After blowing up a Coast City building, leaving Steve Trevor the only survivor, it’s down to DC’s finest detectives – Batman, Lois Lane(?), Green Arrow(???), and The Question(!) – to find her and figure out where she’s planning to strike next, before it’s too late.
Brian Bendis teams up with one of his many frequent collaborators, Alex Maleev, for his first DC event and it’s underwhelming stuff, if this first issue is anything to go by. It’s your standard first ish table-setting except no-one says or does anything interesting. Building blowed up? Meh, pretty standard for superhero comics. And Batman, Lois, Steve and Green Arrow standing around the wreckage chattering wasn’t entertaining to read.
Leviathan were badass the last time I saw them used in a comic – Grant Morrison’s final Batman Incorporated arc – so hopefully they’ll be more interesting in later issues but for now they’re simply looking like formulaic villains. Bendis’ writing isn’t sloppy, it’s just dull, and Maleev’s not doing anything special he hasn’t shown us before with his art – it’s not a badly put-together comic, but it isn’t exciting and hasn’t gotten me wanting to read more of this event.
A disappointingly boring comic, Event Leviathan #1 is ironically an uneventful read.
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