If you crave a DC comic that's fun, stylish, and not too terribly complicated, you could do a lot worse than Talon. The series is successfully using the Court of Owls conflict as a springboard and mixing it with a healthy dose of heist action. The series hit an early snag last month when Guillem March had to bow out after a mere two issues. Luckily, he's back in fine form for issue #3 as Calvin Rose links up with new allies and plans his next major hit on the Court's resources.
March's flair for dynamic, free-flowing action is a major boon to this issue. There's plenty of heist action late in the game, but even the earlier, more dialogue-driven scenes have a certain energy to them. It's also nice to see March push himself and move away from the cheesecake elements that defined his work on books like Catwoman and Gotham City Sirens. Of the two major female characters in this issue, one is a heavily muscled Russian assassin and both are fully clothed at all times.
James Tynion IV significantly boosts the cast of characters this month as he explores the history between Calvin and his former lover Casey and then brings Casey's clandestine organization into the forefront in the present day. Part of me feels that both Calvin and Sebastian could use further fleshing out before adding so many ancillary characters to the book, but for now the ensemble approach injects the mission with an extra dose of excitement. My one real complaint with the script this month is that the transitions between certain scenes can be a little jarring, and in one case I mistakenly thought Tynion had launched back into a flashback for a moment.
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